What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Thank you; that is very useful. Like I said I KNOW I am not stalling it.

 

I had a similar experience Mrs V, with my 1198SP back in 2011 and the issues I had. After talking to the dealer about them it was a case of, "that's just how they are sir", which p*ssed me off a bit TBH after being used to and expecting the seamless performance and usability of SOTA Jap stuff, like the R1 I part-exed for it.
After 3 months I decided I couldn't live with it and got rid.
A shame really because it had looks to die for.

 

The cut-out micro switches on clutch and sidestand can play up and I don't think they show up as fault codes. Not unique to Ducati.Not unknown on KTM's either. Some people have been known to by-pass the sidestand switch.

 

That's sort of where I am at right now with the advice I have been getting apart from on here; jumped on my 21 year old Fireblade to bring it back from its service and MOT today and it was just so easy!! (It does, however, have a small oil leak that was identified, that is being sorted in a few weeks' time).

I have had to say fairly strongly that I am not just stalling it; I am not saying I don't ever stall, however have stalled the Blade once and Striple about four times in total and we all know how bikes are stalled. This issue with the Hyperstrada is not me stalling it, it would be easier if it was .

 

Funnily enough, just been reading a thread on the Rocket 3 forum about stalling. In this instance it's the engine dying when coasting to a stop. Several members reported this and found it to be loose battery terminals. Possibly worth inspecting those and if necessary disconnecting the battery cleaning up the terminals and refitting good and tight with a covering of silicone grease.

 

You could try increasing the idle speed a little and see if that helps?

 

Today Helmut took his Tuono and I took the Hyperstrada and we just had a quick jaunt to The Oily Rag in Gloucester, we couldn't be too long as he had a haircut booked, so it was just a 70 mile round trip .

I then picked the Blade up from its service and MOT (passed with an advisory for a noisy exhaust!) but it has been sidelined in the garage for a few weeks until a small oil leak that was found when it was serviced can be sorted.

 

Quite windy today but taxed the blade and gave it a short shakedown run after the recent servicing works. All was good as expected, so looking forward to getting out further afield.

 

First run out on the V4 this year

 

So I bought a Hp Corse exhaust for the Kove 450 to derestrict it and another ecu to remove this emissions nonsense.
Only a few weeks in, and it needs modifying it's just way too loud and does my nut in.
They don't offer a decibel killer as they obviously think it's quiet enough; it isn't!
Loud bikes can be good, but there is definitely "nice loud" and "not nice loud" IMO and I would say this is the latter; Too much volume and raucous with it.
Being euro 5 compliant the "baffle" has to be welded in to avoid tampering.
OK so, drill out and remove the spot weld, which was quite hard and difficult to initially get started, but once drilled a swift poke with a sweeping brush handle from the front had it into two parts.



In amongst my workshop stock I had a sheet of pierced plate, a sort of mesh with punched holes.
A quick diddle with pi on the calculator and 104 circumference ( 32mm bore) x 100 mm long sounds a good size.
Tap, tap, tap, and abracadabra

A couple of tig tacks to glue the stainless bits together and voila.





Here's before and after.







Now it just needs riding and testing to ensure it meets expectations, if not, try again

 

Top job there Mr Eldon. My FE570 also came with these bits in the exhaust but they just, sort of fell out just after I bought it.


There is still some baffling in there but it's quite loud enough for me as is thank you. It's a 2010 model so Euro 3 I'm guessing, hence the muffler is screwed and not welded together. That's "progress"?
There are a few scroats who frequent some open playing fields near us on various, unplated dirt bikes, probably stolen with straight through pipes and you can hear them coming a mile away.

 

I fitted one of those honeycomb baffles to a friends mt07 a while back. It appeared to create far too much backpressure and put a big hole/flat spot in the torque curve.

I wouldn't recommend that style of baffle to anyone but YMMV..... best place, bin.

 

Just a quick fly out for a coffee pre - work, 65 mile ish round trip. I parked in my favourite spot at the Baffle Haus .

 

Jolly out to a new place for us, Fradley Junction just south of Barton Marina.

 

Took the Thunderbird to Lincoln for an MOT, and a new regulator rectifier, as the old one gave up after 30 years. Well along the way a bloody pigeon decided to commit suicide, as he smacked into my right indicator. Managed to modify it, so it would pass the MOT, which it did. As for the pegion the fate of it is unknown.

 

I had a quick 81 mile round trip to the Postcard Cafe in Clun today for some pre - work breakfast on the Hyperstrada.

 

It is one of our favourite stops.

 

I hopefully did the last freezy morning office tour with my BMW. -2 degrees at my start at 0500 hours. The afternoon was great with about 16 degrees. Today should have been the last cold night/morning in my area of this spring.