LOL what hexheads/twincams do you guys have...
It is quite interesting when you review the rides on connected app as this indicates where and when TCS, ABS events occur, it also indicates the lean angle which can be fun.
What connected App are you using to get this data.
Its the BMW connected app. I think it works qith the TFTWhat connected App are you using to get this data.
I find the twin cam traction control very gentle.
When making spirited overtakes with a pillion, ( low gear high revs) it keeps the front wheel on the ground or very close to it, which helps avoid a wheelie and the "pack it in" from SHMBO.
Its the BMW connected app. I think it works qith the TFT
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To be fair I never suggested it was, i was simply pointing out how interesting it is to view the events and how often they occur.That's not on a TC Hexhead!
You're talking LC BMW!
I find the twin cam traction control very gentle.
When making spirited overtakes with a pillion, ( low gear high revs) it keeps the front wheel on the ground or very close to it, which helps avoid a wheelie and the "pack it in" from SHMBO.
all air cooled bikes with ASC get three options
Off
On (default)
S (but its NOT Sport, the S is from the S of the GS name - as in off road mode - and is to allow a more sporty feel to get the back to tighten a line off road)
on my ramblings about throttle response and flat spots (vx800 and GS with booster plug...) on a few occasions I was saying its as if they built in traction control in the base map.... and they more or less did !!! Was is a fudge for noise regs or an attempt to stop it clashing with the ASC?
It has such massive gaps in the power curve its doesn't bother the ASR as the bike can't make enough go to push the rear tyre - any more than an 80 year old granny on a bicycle can. But as you try to fix the fuelling you can get in a pickle where a positive change in fuelling ends up with no discernible change on the road. So you go backwards and get confused.... Until you realise the ASC was holding the bike back and not the fuelling !
As you had the key off to change the engine map it reverts to cabbage mode. So long as you go to S mode the positive changes you make to the fuelling make sense and you unlock massive performance potential on the early bikes.
The reason I mention the Twin Cam Bikes, I guess they got the balance better and the engine runs better till the ASC in default setting with stock semi-off road tyres does cuts in under hard acceleration. On my Hex bike its the engine map holding it back. And of course without a change in fuelling it doesn't matter if you have default or S mode selected as its just a chasm of hell when nothing happens
If any with a with a Twin Cam bike doesn't believe me, fill with super unleaded let it settle till it almost makes some power and with it warned up in second gear on an empty road from 2800rpm just nail it on full throttle and stare at the instruments - it will be flickering like an idiot and will hold back. Then toggle to S mode and it drives up the road correctly. Depending on how flat your bike is, you might need to use first for it to have enough go to bother the tyre. Its all a combination of grip and rider effort
in the cut and thrust of halfwits near London today..... forgot to take out of default mode after stopping and went to pull away remotely briskly off the line (say 20% of the bikes capability) ASC cuts in and caused a massive cough and an unnecessary wobble. Frankly for those of you that never knew of or don't normally use S mode I'm mot sure how you ride the bike ?
S mode allows 100% of its capability to get off the line, so you can achieve the whole purpose of a owning a bike (and stay safe out there) whilst the default mode is worse than the cyclists on soccer aid last night
I'm beginning to wonder why he's even bothered to try to retrofit traction control to his bike when he clearly despises it. Not got it on my 06 GSA and tbh I don't feel I need it.