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Honda CB1000R Power Commander PC V and 02 Eliminator Kit fit and Dyno set-up

Posted February 7th, 2012 in Honda, Power Commander, Road Bikes.

A bit of a rare beast around these parts (although we have seen a couple); a Honda CB1000R. The stock fuelling, with the standard exhaust can fitted, is quite good to be honest. But unfortunately when you bin the stock can and add an aftermarket item the fuelling goes well awry… It’s not bad at [...]

Honda Hornet 600 racebike pre-season Dyno shakedown

Posted February 2nd, 2012 in Honda, On the Dyno, Race Bikes.

We still see plenty of Honda Hornet 600s through our workshop; this one (which we’ve dealt with in the past…) was bought recently by ex-Hornet racer Andrew Bedford. He’s planning to do a few track days on it, and maybe a bit more racing in selected classes. Our job for him was to do a [...]

Suzuki GSX-R600 trackbike Cordona PQ8 quickshifter upgrade

Posted January 31st, 2012 in Quickshifter, Suzuki.

The owner of this track-spec Suzuki GSX-R600 is a keen track day enthusiast. He bought it in prior to a trip to Portimao, Portugal testing with his mates and wanted some attention on the shift speed of his Power Commander/Cordona quickshift set-up. When we sold both to him originally we explained that it would only [...]

2005 Yamaha XJR1300 Dyno and carb set-up

Posted January 24th, 2012 in Yamaha.

A 2005 Yamaha XJR1300 was bought in by its owner; he’d fitted cans and noticed it was running a bit rough. In the later years of this model (and this is the carb’d bike) Yamaha fitted emissions equipment like secondary air injection to get it through the testing. To be fair, it created a lash-up, [...]

Triumph Tiger 1050 ECU remap

Posted January 19th, 2012 in ECU Remap, Triumph.

As stock (albeit with a can and K&N filter fitted) this Tiger was running ok, although would be a lot better minus the emissions equipment that was constantly interfering at low rpm. Its owner didn’t want to download a generic (dare we say one size fits nobody…) Triumph Performance map and wanted a custom map [...]

Kawasaki ZX-10R racebike Power Commander PC V with dual map set-up

Posted January 17th, 2012 in ECU Remap, Kawasaki, Power Commander.

A Kawasaki ZX-10R belonging to a good club racer, who’s got talent enough to hang in well at National Superstock level. He’s a regular customer of ours, and we mapped his Power Commander for him last year. With the open end can he had fitted at the time we couldn’t get the right power out [...]

MV Agusta Brutale 1078 ECU remap

Posted January 13th, 2012 in ECU Remap, MV Agusta.

The chap who owns this MV is Italian himself, and phoned us before Christmas to talk about an ECU remap. He’d been unhappy with its savage throttle response for sometime, a mate of his had had a fiddle with it but to no avail. With the bike here we rode it – and found it [...]

2009 KTM 990 Adventure ECU remap

Posted January 10th, 2012 in ECU Remap, KTM.

This KTM 990 Adventure (with open cans) was bought in by a customer from Cambridge; he was complaining about the usual problems – the engine surging at slow speed in traffic, and generally a snatchy, unforgiving feel. He wasn’t looking for any more performance out of the engine (which, to be fair is common for [...]

KTM RC8R Bazzaz fit, ECU & traction control remap

Posted January 3rd, 2012 in ECU Remap, KTM.

Bought for endurance racing, this KTM RC8R came in for fitment of a Bazzaz unit, supplied by the owner, which included the traction control he was quite keen to use on track. First of all we had to run the bike in, which we did on the Dyno; it’s a quick, safe and very effective [...]

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 [...]