bike was in for fuel tank leak recall and an electronics recall
tank was OK, electronics update has wrecked it
1) its turned the bike into to a moped, I'd guess its lost at least 25 BPH off the top end and 30 lb ft off midrange
2) appears to have stopped you turning off the MTC (never tried before, but now you need it off) as seems to have increased sensitivity of traction control which is really irritating. I went in the menus to try and turn it off, it says hold, then tells when to release, did nothing, turned off the engine and on 3rd attempt it went to MTC/MSR off, then a second later ABS went to off on its own??? Went up the road, TC light flashing, anti wheelie kicking in, its pathetic.
When I first got it, it would rev out like it was in neutral in all gears and you never had time to look at the dials (as the road in front was vanishing too quick to look down), now its like it struggles to rev out. Has anyone else noticed this? what come back do I have, this isn't the bike I bought!!!
And does anyone know the rear spring rate? In their second hand bikes they had one and the rear was soft and plush and you can get 6" of movement without trying, yet mines always been rock hard where you struggle to get 2" of movement if you try like hell and has no discernible difference between the first three damping modes at the back. Big changes at the front, none at the rear.
Yesterday I put 20 ltr of 99 Octane super unleaded on a low tank …. its made no impact on the moped power output. And also tried the bike in Off road damping mode. Clearly the front changes to soft, plush predictable long travel movement (works well on our terrible roads) and if you try hard, you can, while stationary just detect the rear is fractionally softer (from way to stiff to still far too stiff). I'd say the rear in Off road is where street / sport should be. I'm 110kg rider with gear on top of that and on the spring I saw 160 which I guess means 160nm but dealer said there were no different springs out there. I can also see the shock easily wobbles on its rose joints so they aren't seized up, stopping it moving.
ideas / fixes please
tank was OK, electronics update has wrecked it
1) its turned the bike into to a moped, I'd guess its lost at least 25 BPH off the top end and 30 lb ft off midrange
2) appears to have stopped you turning off the MTC (never tried before, but now you need it off) as seems to have increased sensitivity of traction control which is really irritating. I went in the menus to try and turn it off, it says hold, then tells when to release, did nothing, turned off the engine and on 3rd attempt it went to MTC/MSR off, then a second later ABS went to off on its own??? Went up the road, TC light flashing, anti wheelie kicking in, its pathetic.
When I first got it, it would rev out like it was in neutral in all gears and you never had time to look at the dials (as the road in front was vanishing too quick to look down), now its like it struggles to rev out. Has anyone else noticed this? what come back do I have, this isn't the bike I bought!!!
And does anyone know the rear spring rate? In their second hand bikes they had one and the rear was soft and plush and you can get 6" of movement without trying, yet mines always been rock hard where you struggle to get 2" of movement if you try like hell and has no discernible difference between the first three damping modes at the back. Big changes at the front, none at the rear.
Yesterday I put 20 ltr of 99 Octane super unleaded on a low tank …. its made no impact on the moped power output. And also tried the bike in Off road damping mode. Clearly the front changes to soft, plush predictable long travel movement (works well on our terrible roads) and if you try hard, you can, while stationary just detect the rear is fractionally softer (from way to stiff to still far too stiff). I'd say the rear in Off road is where street / sport should be. I'm 110kg rider with gear on top of that and on the spring I saw 160 which I guess means 160nm but dealer said there were no different springs out there. I can also see the shock easily wobbles on its rose joints so they aren't seized up, stopping it moving.
ideas / fixes please