Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

With carb icing, you'll find the engine wont idle at the correct speed, generally it'll idle very low or just cut out all together. When on the move, you may find the engine dosnt accelerate so easily.

With the whole oil-washed-off-the-bores thing, when the bike is off the choke, then the air-fuel mixture returns to normal, and so the petrol is all burnt off and dosnt "thin out" the oil and hence wash it off so its ok, and as long as you correctly use the choke (keep it on for the minimum amount of time and dont have it on full all the time its on) then it really isnt much of a problem at all