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Edmund Kean

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Does your cruise control do this…

Bike: R1250GSA (2021)

Move off/on switch to ON

Set speed using the toggle switch… green symbol appears displaying the set speed in mph

If I decide to increase speed using toggle switch (for instance by 1 mph) – one push doesn’t always register on the TFT but definitely increases speed very marginally by means of audible change to engine tone. A second push will register a 1 mph increase on the TFT display.

It occurred to me yesterday when riding that, could it be possible the input from one push doesn’t raise the demanded speed by 1 mph? And that strangely it was some fraction of 1 mph.

Upon referring to the manual it states one push = 1kph.

Thought I had an intermittently functioning switch but it seems not.
 
Following the short push of the cruise control toggle, you are surprised that a German motorcycle raises the speed by a 1 kph increment, but that two short pushes raises it by 1 mph?

Imagine how unsurprised you’d be if you were German or indeed any nationality that used the metric system. Or indeed, confused beyond belief if it raised it for them by 1 mph.



PS My VW Polo raises it in 5 mph increments. I could hardly believe my eyes.
 
Wapping said:
you are surprised that a German motorcycle raises the speed by a 1 kph increment, but that two short pushes raises it by 1 mph?
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Jesus... you sound like Spock with all that logic. Frankly somehow it didn't bothered me as such, I normally use the CC to give my wrist a break. Maybe the OP should pop an email to the Mother Ship and adjust the manual accordingly, there must be loads of chaps across the pod wondering the same...
 
Wapping said:
Following the short push of the cruise control toggle, you are surprised that a German motorcycle raises the speed by a 1 kph increment, but that two short pushes raises it by 1 mph?

Imagine how unsurprised you’d be if you were German or indeed any nationality that used the metric system. Or indeed, confused beyond belief if it raised it for them by 1 mph.



PS My VW Polo raises it in 5 mph increments. I could hardly believe my eyes.
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So it might be so... to achieve a 5mph increase, the CC toggle on BMW motorcycles needs to be pushed approximately eight times. That would read well in the manual :D
 
Mine doesn't do that. Probably because it is always set to kilometres.
 
Ive always wondered.......

Why does it even have a slide switch on it ??

I never turn mine off and I've never accidentally set cruise ??
 
Winjar said:
Until macron send you back to UK :p
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Haha. I have a permanent residence card. The continent is my playground.
I am also half German so no one can send me anywhere.
 
Actually it's not 1Kph, it's 0.9 Kph, with +-0.1kph for tolerancing ;)

And only if the ambient temperature is 24C at sea level :)


Germanic efficiency :D
 
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