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Re: Two wheels good.

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I'd have no issue with a TL1000S, but I'm also a fat cunt well over 15 stone so would have no problem with the rear shock.
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Eddie Honda wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:05 pm I'd have no issue with a TL1000S, but I'm also a fat cunt well over 15 stone so would have no problem with the rear shock.
Likewise.
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I know a lot of quick riders who had them, only one reported it tried to kill him.
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DodgeRover wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:41 pmonly one reported it tried to kill him.
Bet he was a whippet and not a fat knacker.
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DodgeRover wrote: Fri Aug 07, 2020 11:41 pm I know a lot of quick riders who had them, only one reported it tried to kill him.
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The rest are dead then?
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Hooli wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 10:10 pm As per the non-grumpy post in the grumpy thead I seem to have solved the thirsty problem with my 14, I did a guesswork adjustment of the secondary throttle sensor, it's only worked & the thing is as responsive as I'd forgot it should be and doing the right MPG again.

To expand on that, it's got a second set of throttle butterflies that are controlled by the ECU. They open gradually from idle to about 3.4-5k, they are to keep the gas flow speeds up in the intake so it's smoother at low revs. The ECU uses a stepper motor to adjust them & has a position sensor to know where they are. The sensor was set correctly but I knew when I'd first touched it years ago (to cure another fault with idle speeds) it was set to a higher resistance. So I 'turned it up' a bit, meaning the ECU thinks the secondaries are open slightly less than it did before. Now it's opening them a bit more & the bike is running a lot freer, I guess it was rich as they were choking it slightly.

I couldn't adjust it too much as it's the same sensor & stepper motor that does the fast idle when cold. Fully shut on the throttles & back a bit more pushes the fast idle cam. So if this sensor is too far out compared to where the throttle sensor is when the bike is cold it throws up another error code.
Update on this. Extensive testing yesterday proved 160-170miles before reserve now, about what it should be. Much better than the 120-130miles I was lucky to get recently.
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I test rode a SV650 tonight, I don't want one but helping a mate look for a bike & she's not very mechanically minded.

They are fun little things, so damn light & flicky with decent torque & a lovely engine note. I still don't like clip-ons though, first time I've ridden anything with them since 2007 & I think I'll leave it as long again.
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Did you really test an SV650? Are you sure it wasn't a half-faired S model? The SV650 doesn't have clip-ons. The SV650S does.
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It had clip-ons but no fairing. Been a bit street fightered in the past.

Judging by the length of the wiring etc to the switch gear it looks it a naked one that got clip-ons fitted rather than a faired one that got stripped.
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Hooli wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:22 pm It had clip-ons but no fairing. Been a bit down the road in the past.
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