So i went to bonnie Scotland at the weekend. Sorry guys we did nothing but ride and eat lorn sausage, no down time at all!
Weather was largely dry but very cold. I made the error of choosing my summer leather jacket as it was warm when i was packing my bike, and also it was summer solstice so you would expect decent temperatures. Wrong! the vented stretch panels running up my arms and on the side of my rib cage directed freezing cold air into my armpits. I have never been so cold in my damn life. I ended up buying a roll of gaffer tape at a garage and taping all the vents up. It was better but definitely not cosy.
The bike was just awesome. So strong now that on full power the clutch is slipping which ir never used to do, so I will have to sort that out. The bike was flexible enough to allow me to bimble along in top at 2500rpm, and will pull from there strongly right through. I going to make some modifications to the mapping for my own preference. I am going to retard the ignition at the 2 and 5% areas from 2000rpm to 3500rpm, as I can feel it hunting every so slightly. Best to to describe it is it feels like a hoss straining at the leash to take off. I want it to happy content to trott along in that zone, it makes for more pleasant cruising.
The fuel economy was pretty amazing. I was riding with my dad on his street triple R, he likes to fill up every 80 mile for some weird reason, and I was putting at least a litre less fuel in than his bike every time, sometimes quite a bit less. By my rough calcs I was getting over 60mpg.
So new clutch plates and possibly slightly heavier springs depending on how worn the old clutch plates turn out to be, and little tweaking of the mapping and I am pretty much done!