Africa Twin dies at idle... A LOT

[theoverman83]

This just started this morning. Its usual for me to need to put the choke in to start it first things in the morning, and it may die a once or twice before runs at idle without choke.

However, all day today whenever I came to idle it would EASILY putter out. It would start right back up too, but would never keep unless I revved it, which was a pain as I was navigating crowded walkways in India. I didn't want to strain the starter, so I just had to "flutter" the gas with the clutch out to keep it running.

MY initial thoughts (and I have real experience here, and can't to many fixes myself. It thought of the things I could fix)

The battery? Although it started back up every time without a struggle, the battery is due for a change, is at the end of a hard life (I think), and perhaps that has something to do with inefficient spark at low idle?

The fuel pump? I know these are prone to failure on an AT, and thought perhaps it wasn't delivering enough fuel/ is about ready to go?

The choke cable? Recently I noticed that the choke cable feel "stiff" and as I recall seems to have lost considerable range of motion. Perhaps its always somewhat engaged, delivering an improper/ "heavy" fuel mixture?

A relay? A fuse?

This concludes just about all my knowledge of how motorcycles work :-)

Any thoughts?