Where did you ride your FTR today?

Breto

Breto

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Glad someone is out for a ride…all we’ve had here is rain rain rain…no fun to be had…🤦‍♂️
 
kiwi dave

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edgelett said:
My fave bit was when I was coming out of a 100 zone and sitting in an 80 zone with a 50 zone approaching (kph of course) and a motorcycle cop came towards me. now I was slowing down but still doing over 80....and he just nodded and carried on his way. Was clearly just enjoying the day himself!
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Of course, you Ozzie riders are banned from having a radar detector on your bike. I try to obey the speed limits, but a tiny bit of lack of attention can cost you plenty. I like the ability to know I'm being watched.
 
kiwi dave

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I've had cruise control on most of my motorcycles, Indian and Moto Guzzi.

What always gets my heartbeat going is when I feel the speed is going a little fast, I turn the throttle down and nothing happens!

Yeah, I know I should remember the cruise control is switched on, but it gets me every time.
 
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@kiwi dave I got into cruise control in my work ute, I was on the road most of the time, getting a bike with cruise control is *LUXURY * (channels Monty Pythons Yorkshire men).
It was only recently that I learned that rolling the throttle forward disengaged the c/c.
 
kiwi dave

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fuknKIWI said:
@kiwi dave I got into cruise control in my work ute, I was on the road most of the time, getting a bike with cruise control is *LUXURY * (channels Monty Pythons Yorkshire men).
It was only recently that I learned that rolling the throttle forward disengaged the c/c.
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Are you sure you didn't touch the brakes? In my experience that's what normally disengages cruise control.

Just noticed your reference to Monty Python. Comedy at its best.

This caught my attention last night when I stumbled on to this feed. Lost three hours of my life!

[www.facebook.com/imnotrightinthehead]. Copy and paste without the parenthesis.
 
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Breto

Breto

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There was 3 hundred of us living in a paper bag in a septic tank…every morning we’d have to clean the tank, wid tongue…😂😂😂
 
FTR London

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Breto said:
There was 3 hundred of us living in a paper bag in a septic tank…every morning we’d have to clean the tank, wid tongue…😂😂😂
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If you ever visit Yorkshire, you'll soon find they are genuinely like that in conversation.
 
Greg

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Well… as proud Yorkshire man, living in Barnsley all my life, I can say your all miles off, it’s not at all like this!! But what do I know, I was brought up in a shoe, our only food was the laces I had to chew on………..!
 
Breto

Breto

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Nup it’s so so loud now…ear splitting loud. Goes hard but there is no back pressure at all now so fuck all engine braking…see what TOCE says I suppose…🤔🙉
 
FTR London

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Breto said:
Out for a blat with the youngest boy today…spat my baffle out of my TOCE…it’s so bloody loud now…
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edgelett said:
jeepers!! thats not good.
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Sounds bloody brilliant to me!

Breto said:
Nup it’s so so loud now…ear splitting loud. Goes hard but there is no back pressure at all now so fuck all engine braking…see what TOCE says I suppose…🤔🙉
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Really surprised to hear that. I've run many bikes with the baffles intentionally removed and it's never had a noticeable effect on engine braking - particularly on a V-twin. Most race cans are designed to have the baffles easily removed with no real detriment to the performance. My FTR has a cat delete a link pipe and a straight through S&S can and of course this will affect the back pressure meaning that you'll never have the perfect tune - but the engine braking is monstrous.

Breto, please may you record a video of the sound before you put them back in? I've seen edgelett's video of her system which from memory has the dB killer in, and it sounds so sweet - and actually quite loud. I'm really curious to know what your bike sounds like now, (albeit with the risk of upsetting your neighbourhood), in spite of the fact that you can never do it justice on a phone camera.
 
Breto

Breto

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Regardless of your opinion on removing baffles the fact remains that I ride this bike, I know how much engine braking it had before and after yesterdays dummy spit of the baffles and I’m telling you it has none now. In fact it will roll on before it even attempts to slow under engine braking. Which is non existent. As far as the tune is concerned it has made no difference. Ryan’s tune has been superb for the TOCE and in sport mode yesterday it just wanted to go harder without the baffle. A little harder to cruise at low speed but that was it. I’ll film it for you and no it won’t capture the the loudness really. I think the microphone will fold under the pressure. I’ve spoken to Ryan Coligan who actually fabricated my system. He said that TOCE should replace the can under warranty hopefully. The loop that I ride has some very steep downhill sections that previously I would not have to use brakes on. Perfect on camber corners all the way. Just roll off and fly around. Yesterday it was brakes and by the time I got home my right ear was dull and ringing. My kid said it had turned into a Harley. Oh my fuckin god no…thems fighten words boy…🤦‍♂️😂
 
edgelett

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I know of one other person on the FB page that had this happen to them - was replaced under warranty I believe.
Interesting about the back pressure/engine breaking as Ryan Randall told me there was no difference between the tunes for baffles in vs out when I asked him to give me a baffles in tune....
I can't even imagine how loud it would be without that baffle in it. it's borderline now!
 
Breto

Breto

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Your spot on Tash…no difference in the tune, it’s just the effect that not having the baffle in produced quite quickly I might add. It was noticeable from the time we took off from the coffee shop. Just railing into corners like I would normally do and then having bugger all to no engine breaking was a bit of a surprise. Also that run on feeling. So shutting the throttle resulted in a nice bang but it would run on before it started to calm down a bit…I’ll pull it out and do a video of it running.
 
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cupcake_mike

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I'm confused, we must have different definitions of engine braking.

Engine braking is due to the piston pulling a vacuum on the intake stroke (or at least wayyy less air) because the plate in the throttle body is effectively closed.

Engine braking is all about the intake side of the equation, not the exhaust...
 
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