I think this stuff will be good when it filters down to bikes .... and after they've stopped charging for it as a "premium product" should be cost effective too.
http://fplreflib.findlay.co.uk/articles ... P14-16.pdf
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Be careful what you wish for... I don't see that kind of system being amenable to user tweaking in the way current suspension is. And yet more reliance on electronics makes me distinctly uneasy, failsafe circuits or not.
Coincidentally I was talking to a guy I've known for 25 years or more and who is probably the best mechanic I know - Ron at Wylie & Holland in Wellington. He was working on a late model Triumph triple and was cursing the pervasive electronics on it; apparently it has about 3 computers, all of which talk to each other on a Can Bus system (I think...)
He said that fault finding and rectification on these bikes mandates the use of a laptop for anything. Without that, and the correct diagnostic tools loaded, you're effectively powerless. And if you do go in and start trying to 'fix' stuff outside of the approved method, you can very easily and quickly cause expensive problems with the electronic components.
I said I was glad that this level of electronic interference wasn't present on the Falco and Ron agreed, saying that we're fortunate that the level of electronics on our bikes is not intrusive and, in his view, about right.
I'm aware (and not a little apprehensive) that it's the coming thing, but frankly I want no part of it.
Coincidentally I was talking to a guy I've known for 25 years or more and who is probably the best mechanic I know - Ron at Wylie & Holland in Wellington. He was working on a late model Triumph triple and was cursing the pervasive electronics on it; apparently it has about 3 computers, all of which talk to each other on a Can Bus system (I think...)
He said that fault finding and rectification on these bikes mandates the use of a laptop for anything. Without that, and the correct diagnostic tools loaded, you're effectively powerless. And if you do go in and start trying to 'fix' stuff outside of the approved method, you can very easily and quickly cause expensive problems with the electronic components.
I said I was glad that this level of electronic interference wasn't present on the Falco and Ron agreed, saying that we're fortunate that the level of electronics on our bikes is not intrusive and, in his view, about right.
I'm aware (and not a little apprehensive) that it's the coming thing, but frankly I want no part of it.
LOL - you Luddites are just trying to do me out of a job!
Yes you'll need a laptop (or a phone app?) to set it (unless you can do it through the bike's dash - which would be the real way to go) but it should offer much better and quicker adjustment and with some decent user software should be much easier to set up too.
Bring it on!
Yes you'll need a laptop (or a phone app?) to set it (unless you can do it through the bike's dash - which would be the real way to go) but it should offer much better and quicker adjustment and with some decent user software should be much easier to set up too.
Bring it on!
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I can't see page two, I get two page ones and a page three. Hopefully not prophetic of the technology it's describing!
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