Since the recall the bikes now a lot smoother on both acceleration and de acceleration with a nice increase in power across the whole rev range. Also when sitting on 3 grand the engine surging is now minimal.
.... there is still room for improvement but I am happy with the changes.
Can only second all that.
Whoopteedoo....who woulda thunk!!
The dutiful pickup from the dealers turned into an impromptu 2hr backblocks ramble with a grin that threatened to crack the helmet.
WHAT A TRANSFORMATION!!
This thing is actually rideable now, without dragging the clutch half the time, particularly in close, heavy traffic and when the going gets slow.
Not a single stall!! And I tried. Then tried harder!
Nope....can't kill the bugger.
Saw the "No thru road" sign at a local, narrow dirt lane and remembered it as a rough and fairly soft/ muddy, grassy track that nearly got me undone a few times on a check-out ride some years ago.
Of course it does go thru....sort of.
It sure was as I remembered it, just add a few prominent, embedded rocks sticking out of the slippery centre-hump, all making for a walking speed crawl up the hill, with the rear Tourance/ road-tyre dancing the Polka.
It would've been near impossible before, coaxing a dragging clutch against needed throttle mixed with missing traction, trying to avoid that dreaded stall and the resulting dip into the muddy greenery.
No longer!!
Just pop her into 1., stand up and let the idle make her crawl smoothly up the slippery slope while concentrating to keep that rear end from going too far out of shape.
The wonky idle has gone, if anything, the mid-range has picked up, there's SMOOTH cruising in top-cog from below 2000rpm, no jerking, no "chain-snatch" and there's steam packing from 3000-to-redline without any flattening or hesitation. Even the popping exhaust on the overrun is gone.
Now we've finally got a bike!
BLOODY BEAUTIFUL