Archive for December, 2011

1934 Indian magneto fit and set-up

Posted December 23rd, 2011 in Rare Groove.

“The best bike I’ve ridden in the last three months…!” reckons Mark. He’s talking about this 1934 (it’s thought) Indian, which we first saw as a project bike two years ago when some machining needed doing on the head stock to take a standard metric bearing. Jason Kersley is owner of the beast, and in [...]

Ducati 1098S Cordona PQ8 quickshifter fit and suspension sort-out

Posted December 20th, 2011 in Ducati, Quickshifter.

This Ducati 1098S is owned by a regular customer of ours, and he bought it in recently for some work; he’d purchased a Cordona PQ8 quickshifter from us (for an old carb’d Yamaha R1) a while ago, and wanted it swapping onto his Ducati that he’s not long had. This is a relatively straightforward job [...]

MV Agusta Brutale 920 ECU remap

Posted December 16th, 2011 in ECU Remap, MV Agusta.

An MV Agusta Brutale 920, owned by one of our regular customers (we’ve set-up. ECU re-mapped and Dyno’ed pretty much every bike he owns, from a Paul Smart Replica to 748 and 1098). He bought the Brutale because he’s looking to do a few track days on it next year and likes this style of [...]

2006 Honda CBR1000RR FireBlade Power Commander PC V & 02 Eliminator set-up

Posted December 9th, 2011 in ECU Remap, Honda, Road Bikes.

The owner of this 2006 Honda CBR1000RR bought it in for mapping and set-up. It had been fitted with a Power Commander PC V (by his brother), but no 02 Sensor, which you really need. Luckily, we had one on the shelf. First thing to do on a Blade like this is to disconnect the [...]

2005 Kawasaki ZX-12R valve clearance check

Posted December 7th, 2011 in Kawasaki, Road Bikes, Workshop Tips.

Valves – why should you worry about ‘em…? Well, if you own a bike less than five or so years old you can bother a little less, because materials are so much better, tougher now than they were even just a short time ago (which is why service intervals have generally grown) but bikes like [...]

Triumph Street Triple ECU remap to match open can

Posted December 5th, 2011 in ECU Remap, Road Bikes, Triumph.

This Triumph Street Triple, fitted with a stubby A16 exhaust can, came in for a full ECU remap to get the fuelling to match the can. Looking at it we were a little concerned about the efficiency of the baffle – it looked very much like a Christmas tree – but in this case it [...]

2010 BMW S1000RR ECU remap

Posted December 2nd, 2011 in BMW, ECU Remap, Road Bikes.

A BMW S1000RR, fitted with a full Leo Vince exhaust system, bought in for an ECU remap by its owner for various reasons; apparently there are warranty issues with dealer downloads and the Power Commander route covers up some of the cracks without fully sorting all of the issues. With the full system onboard the [...]