Hilltop remap on my R12RT WC - the results

Hmmm. Interested in this. BSD in Peterborough do remaps for £300 and they're just around the corner (not that Earl Shilton is far away). Does anyone know if Hilltop do something BSD don't do? Thanks.
 
Hmmm. Interested in this. BSD in Peterborough do remaps for £300 and they're just around the corner (not that Earl Shilton is far away). Does anyone know if Hilltop do something BSD don't do? Thanks.

for the sake of a few quid is it worth taking the chance, mine was number 501 GS hes done, the software also resets the number counter every 2 years, its peanuts and the best mod you'll ever do on your bike
 
Presumably you have to report this type of modification to your insurance company?
 
for the sake of a few quid is it worth taking the chance, mine was number 501 GS hes done, the software also resets the number counter every 2 years, its peanuts and the best mod you'll ever do on your bike
I wasn't so much trying to save money, mate, as to go to a local guy if he's offering the same thing 😊. I suspect the Hilltop remap does something clever to the ecu that an ordinary remap doesn't. Just wondered if anyone knew exactly what the difference was. Guess the next step is to phone Hilltop.
 
Give BSD a go if they are local, and let know the results...:thumb2
 

Quite. It's not as if, 20 years ago, I'd have rung my insurance company & stated "I've just had my R100 serviced. The ignition has been re-timed & the carbs re-balanced to perfection. Now she's running like BMW intended".
 

Because you have not only changed the original specification of the bike but have enhanced its performance.
If you were to have a claim what chance that the insurance co. may repudiate that claim because you failed to inform them?
 
Because you have not only changed the original specification of the bike but have enhanced its performance.
If you were to have a claim what chance that the insurance co. may repudiate that claim because you failed to inform them?

Are you associated with the Insurance industry by chance?
 
Because you have not only changed the original specification of the bike but have enhanced its performance.
If you were to have a claim what chance that the insurance co. may repudiate that claim because you failed to inform them?

The figures that Hilltop produce are still less than the manufacturer claims.:rob
 
Because you have not only changed the original specification of the bike but have enhanced its performance.
If you were to have a claim what chance that the insurance co. may repudiate that claim because you failed to inform them?

Tuning an old R100 at Service, by your definition, "Changed it's specification, & enhanced it's performance". No one suggested we tell the insurance company it was now a different motorcycle.
 
I have been wondering about that. I reckoned pre-remap that I got about 56mpg as well, and I have ridden the bike over 900 miles last week over a mixture of typical roads that I would normally do, and it has averaged about 56mpg again. So I reckon consumption is largely unchanged.

So you increased top power (by more than 10bhp) and torque all over the range at the same time, without any changes to the fuel consumption as well.
What type of sorcery is this? :D


My friend on his 2010 air cooled 12GS (is that what they call a hex head?) reckons that his fuel consumption his improved dramatically. He does huge mileages each year as he uses it for work commuting between jobs all over southern and central UK (maybe 20,000 miles a year!). He reports that he gets 220 miles a tank, up from 170....
Puggy

Even better.
 
So you increased top power (by more than 10bhp) and torque all over the range at the same time, without any changes to the fuel consumption as well.
What type of sorcery is this? :D Even better.

Efficiency ? Running the engine at the correct stoichiometric ratio.
 


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