Roadster road test

[rayjay]

Just read a UK magazine called Bike December issue and they have done a first ride on the Roadster. A first ride is a short road test, a couple of interesting points.
Their saying that the extra power comes from moving the catalytic converters from the exhust collector box to the end cans, this also makes room for the ABS control unit, revised gearbox, uprated clutch and shaft drive. Also the power is still restricted in the first three gears. He also said the bike was oddly more responsive in fourth gear than it is in third.
Ray

 

[T Evans]

Oddly enough that is the way that mine is. I can do a roll on full throttle in 5th gear and it just seems to take it a bit before it gets up past 100 mph. I can down shift to fourth and hammer it and run up past 130 mph in a snap. Fifth gear seems to be just a cruzin gear from the factoy.

 

[RKTNMYPKT]

@CanberraR3 Tag Richards it!

 

[cr0ft]

Probably Triumph's "excellent" ECU programming. I'm still sore at the cluster-**** they made of the stock ECU map on my R3T, every day now I marvel at having "a new bike" with the custom tune. I'm sure all those weird behaviors with power delivered oddly are due to nutty ECU mapping.

 

[rayjay]

Croft..i posted that in 2009 you would have thought by now Triumph would have woken the ole girl up
And told her to take off her pyjamas and put this little black cocktail dress on
We live in hope

RJ

 

[cr0ft]

I dunno why I wound up in such an old thread, must have clicked wrong. Usually I revive old threads on purpose. But still, the problem is the same.