deceleration

[boulder_adv_rider]

It's sounds to me like a throttle cable is sticking. Check to make sure when you rotate the throttle both cables are properly functioning and the hand control is bound by something like a bar end. Next (less likely) it could be something improper/sticking with the carb slide mechanism.

[Kevin Powers]

How will this election end? To find out, take a rideJoe Soucheray TwinCities.com-Pioneer PressArticle Last Updated:10/21/2008 11:58:43 PM CDT On a motorcycle ride Sunday afternoon, I pushed deep into Washington County, where I have developed several wonderful itineraries, to take in barns and wooded hills and secret little lakes. Farther, I reminded myself it's a short season and each ride could be the final one of the year. Farther. I got so far into Washington County that I started seeing McCain-Palin signs. At say, 25 or 30 miles out of town, McCain-Palin signs are not only plentiful, they aren't even vandalized, while meanwhile, back near the tallest buildings, the signs are infrequently displayed and often defaced by spray paint. Farther. Just a bit more. I got far enough that I saw a lone Palin sign without McCain's name. Now that's rural, insofar as Gov. Sarah Palin has been characterized by hunting, fishing, snowmachining and zipping around in her floatplane. I turned back at the Palin sign. Maybe going farther would have been like traveling back in time, to Reagan signs and Nixon signs and Eisenhower signs. That's how I will think of it on future rides I got all the way out to Palin. Michele Bachmann and Norm Coleman were a given. But I got all the way out to Palin. As a socially responsible rider, I never rattle the pipes in town. When you do, particularly on a parkway or a leafy avenue, you only disturb the sensibilities of people who sit in the window with a quill pen ready to demand ordinances and restrictions and limitations, because they have every right in the world not to have their peace disturbed. I don't give them any ammunition and even understand their point. But out in Washington County, I could let the throttle loose and listen to the trusty friend snarl and bark. Easily do I agree to the mythology of the motorcycle as horse, the rider as cowboy. It's all a game, but a head-clearing one and the simplest explanation we have for election-result maps. John McCain and Palin will undoubtedly win rural America. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will overwhelmingly win urban America. Not only the yard signs tell us this, but the famous election maps of the last few go-rounds that showed George W. winning virtually all of America's real estate while Al Gore and John Kerry won virtually all of America's cities. We are not a terribly difficult people to figure out. With a little space, a little elbow room and the occasional need to make noise with a chain saw or tow a horse trailer to the Fairgrounds with a big SUV, you probably lean toward the candidate you most think will leave you alone. Closer to the tall buildings, closer to density, you tend to lean toward the candidate you think will make your neighbor leave you alone. I suppose collectivism has its appeal when you have to shut your windows to the neighbor's backyard fire pit or plug your ears to the neighbor's leaf blower. There are other reasons, of course, why cities lean left and countryside leans right, chief among them the essentially unexamined notion of peer pressure. The Obama signs outnumber McCain 50 to 1 in the city. I haven't counted, but the evidence is there for the observer. For pete's sake, how do you go to the block party next summer if you had the only McCain sign on the street? In two weeks, most of the signs will be gone. But in about a year, it starts all over again, for among our significant cultural declines, presidential politics are too much with us, for too long. It isn't healthy. Long rides are antidotes. Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray@... or 651-228-5474. Soucheray is heard from 2 to 5:30 p.m. weekdays on KSTP-AM 1500. -- Kevin Powers White Bear Lake, MN [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]