The owner of this CB1000R lives in London and brought his bike to us because he was struggling in heavy traffic with the on/off throttle behaviour – these can quite snatchy in their power delivery (not something you’d say often these days with a Honda) and this one was bad.
We can’t remap Honda ECUs just yet so we had no option but to fit a Power Commander PC V, but we also disconnected all the flaps and the secondary air system. After re-fuelling the bottom end a lot of the snatchiness was gone and it was much sweeter. To be fair a great deal of the interference is caused by the emissions equipment, so just getting rid of it all helped…
Turning off the emissions gubbins and dialling in a PC V has sorted this CB1000R’s throttle response.
