Boosterplug

[Richard Kuysten]

#13591

So are you buying the compact or extended versions?

[Anonymous]

#13592

Yah bunch of software cheaters serves you right for the results, I like. Have to have a chin wag when I see you blokes on a ride 😀

[Dave Morris]

#13593

geezmygsdontneednowossyboosteritsgotenoughpufftopuffyoualloff.nextthingyouwilbebuyingsomegpsunitsoyadontetlostandyanowhattimeyagunnagethome.sshhhsssh   

[Richard Kuysten]

#13594

geezmygsdontneednowossyboosteritsgotenoughpufftopuffyoualloff.nextthingyouwilbebuyingsomegpsunitsoyadontetlostandyanowhattimeyagunnagethome.sshhhsssh   

you'rebloodyrightmatebutthecruisercoulddowithsmoothingdownatlowspeedabitsothemissusdon'tfallofftheback.

[Anonymous]

#13595

Compact in my case, Malcolm.  For the kind of riding I do I can't imagine a few degrees difference between airbox temp and outside air temp would be critical.Steve, I already have a gps unit (in the cage.)  It only gets used to find food when we go to one of the places you have tipped, and it turns out to be burnt down.  And Penguin's GS is faster than my 1100-ess, and I think yours would be too, if you have the critical mechanical component he has: the nut that holds the handlebars. 👿

[Dave Ross]

#13596

Well, I'll have to wait for a few weeks before I can test mine. Sitting in Hong Kong right now, waiting for our room to be made up.

[Anonymous]

#13597

My booster plug arrived a week or so ago (along with Malcolm's) but it's been sitting on my desk since. I knew that Malcolm was planning to fit his today. I was hoping to do the same but I was stuck at work much longer than planned so by the time I arrived home and did some domestic chores (to make sure I could get a leave pass for a ride tomorrow) it was getting a little late to tackle a big job. Every task that I have read about in the R1200C manual starts with the instruction “First remove fuel tank”. The next sentence says to make sure the tank is not full (mine is) and what to do about the fuel that spills out of the disconnected lines etc. However I was worried that Malcolm would leave me in his dust with all of his extra power tomorrow so I decided to make a start. First step was seat off. That was easy and gave me a chance to clean some places I had never seen before. Then a couple of side covers, No sweat. I removed the two bolts at the rear of the tank, lifted the rear of the tank a little and I could see the temp sensor. I could then reach in, disconnect the plug, fit the lead and drop the tank down again. The whole job was done in 10 mins, including putting away the tools. Bwucie said that it would be easy. How silly of me to doubt anything Bwucie says. It's a little late to try it out now, but I'm looking forward to seeing how the bike runs on the pizza run tomorrow. At least I should be able to keep up with Malcolm 🙂

[Richard Kuysten]

#13598

Hmmm, mine's on too Rob and as you say it was pretty simple but a little “dusty”.  From the tone of your mail you'll be wearing your “guantlets” tomorrow  👿 

[Anonymous]

#13599

Malcolm, Mike, Rob, Alex, anybody else that has fitted one of these cables: make sure you allow enough time for yourself to get the cable off before you take your bike to Experience for a service.  I ran out of time, and asked Sebastian to get the tech to take it off before and refit it after the bike was serviced and set up, which wasn't done: I now have a bike with an evil death rattle in the motor.  I don't know if this is because the cable banjaxxed the diagnostics, or because something has not been set right, but it is NOT the bike I rode into Experience.This is not the first customer "request" I have made at Experience that hasn't been followed through.  They either have a massive communication blockage between the guy that books your bike in and the guys that do the work, or they have willfully disobedient technicians (which I don't credit).  Whichever, it regularly costs me money.  I have taken the cable off and now have to take up my time, and no doubt more of my money, to go and get the bike tuned again.  And, frankly, I'm p####d off.  It may also just be a set up problem, and the fact that the cable was there made no difference - I have had the bike come back before running awful, stalling at every intersection unless I carried a bit of throttle all the time.  On that occasion when I went back, I was told, "It's all set up by machine, it CAN'T be wrong," yet when I got my next service (early, because the bike was running so bad) it came out running sweet.  My conspiracy theory suggests they can fix most everything, so long as you pay $$$$$, but nothing is wrong if you just expect them to 'fix' something that has changed for the worse as a result of their work without more of your $$$$$.If the logistics of getting the bike to Hamilton were not at the moment, between work and BMWOR, so difficult, I would not darken the door at Experience.  I have said before that I felt bulletproof when I walk into bike shops now, because I like my eleven-hundy so much.  That's not quite true any more.  Henry has a bike on the floor that really HAS caught my eye, but like hell I would buy again from Experience until they learn to get my bike back to me running right.

[Jim Young]

#13600

OMG !!!Not good and I know the 60k service is not cheap, so take it back and throw a tantrum until it is fixed. >:(

[Dave Ross]

#13601

I do my own service on the 1150. The only problem I have with the bike is its constant need for pivot bearing replacements. Next time I'll do that myself as well. Bwucie, check if your throttle cable is seated properly.

[Richard Kuysten]

#13602

Thanks for the heads up Bruce.  I sympathize with you and can relate totally with your experience at Experience.  It is not good enough but I doubt things will change for a while yet.

[Anonymous]

#13603

Things get murkier. When I went back to Experience after U-turning 200 metres from the shop yesterday, the tech that worked on it came bolting out wanting to know why I was back, and of course, the bike idled just fine while he was standing by it (Sod's Law).  I asked him to confirm he'd replaced my Accelerator Cable, and that was when he said he hadn't taken it off, and hadn't seen it because he hadn't, "Had to take the plastic off."  At least, that is what this partially deaf biker, complete with helmet and earplugs, understood.I can understand he might not have noticed the cable if he had not been told about it, it is relatively inconspicuous, although it definitely is not "under the plastic".  What is under the plastic, and what I have just gone out to the garage to look at, and checked how things fit together on the parts fiche, is the airbox.I cannot for the life of me work out how he put in the new air filter I paid for without taking the tupperware off.I could work up to a tanty-fit by Saturday morning.  Hopefully Cafe Red Baron will be open and I can get myself elsewhere than Experience fairly smartly.  Herbal tea and muffins with tranquilisers in them, please, Kerry.

[Anonymous]

#13604

All fixed: a minute adjustment to the balance, and it idles like a regular R1100S again.Mrs Red Baron was away for the weekend, so Alex did the home baking at Cafe Red Baron.  He is good, his swiss cremes and cameo cremes are just like Griffins, even the packets look the same.My liver gets the benefit of a week off grog, 'cos I left my once a week carton with the tech at Experience, so happy was I to have the Sex Toy back the way it oughta was.  Those who are oldies/littlies running tomorrow don't forget your sarnies, it's a picnic run.

[Anonymous]

#13605

Brucie hope the R eleven hundy is behaving since a wee visit to the dr experience my home bound foud a 30 something had found wet stars on Cape hill road and had a low side ( cbr600 ) being trailered home rider hurt pride.

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