Who's still riding? (Fall & Winter 2021 Edition)

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V-Tom said:
Any of you get out today?

I went for a little ride and saw a couple of riders and their bikes having a coffee at Timmies, a dual sport riding though Bancroft and a couple of riders eastbound on hwy 7 heading towards Madoc.

Was any of them you?

..Tom
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Yep was out today, finally, just close to home. I doubt anyone was close to where you were. But nice to hear the roads out those ways are ridable.

FYI:

Nice day. Anyone else get out?

Didn't go far. Around the block to check on the zebra (not out) and filled my tank - ouch!
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My ride into work this morning. A bit overcast.

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Gary said:
That's a whole bunch of red. What colour is the tach at 10,001?
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green($) for repair, take it to the dealer
 
shanekingsley said:
That's a pretty cool feature!
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It is pretty trick.

I first encountered this on a 2008 BMW HP2 Sport. It was a race bike, and it actually had a hard redline which slowly moved higher and physically prevented you from over-revving until the engine had reached operating temperature.

I think some owners didn't like being told what they could or couldn't do, and thought they knew better than the engineers who built the bike. So BMW moved to soft rev limits for future iterations of the rev limiter. I'm sure they still keep an internal counter of how many times you over-rev the engine, so they can throw it in your face when they're denying you warranty coverage when you bring it in to service for a blown engine.

On my new Duc, the rev limiter is tied into the break-in period in two stages. Under 1000 kms, the rev limiter is set at 6000 RPM. After 1000 kms, the limiter is reset to 7000 RPM and at 2500 kms, it's unrestricted to the 9000 RPM redline.

The tachometer blinks red if you exceed the rev limits. This is in addition to the shift light at the top of the dash.

So many bells, whistles and warnings...

Ah, technology!
 
Lightcycle said:
The red represents a soft redline when the engine is cold. The redline slowly moves up when the engine warms up.

At operating temperature, the redline is 9000 RPM.
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Sweet. I thought that was only during break in.
 
Lightcycle said:
It is pretty trick.

I first encountered this on a 2008 BMW HP2 Sport. It was a race bike, and it actually had a hard redline which slowly moved higher and physically prevented you from over-revving until the engine had reached operating temperature.

I think some owners didn't like being told what they could or couldn't do, and thought they knew better than the engineers who built the bike. So BMW moved to soft rev limits for future iterations of the rev limiter. I'm sure they still keep an internal counter of how many times you over-rev the engine, so they can throw it in your face when they're denying you warranty coverage when you bring it in to service for a blown engine.

On my new Duc, the rev limiter is tied into the break-in period in two stages. Under 1000 kms, the rev limiter is set at 6000 RPM. After 1000 kms, the limiter is reset to 7000 RPM and at 2500 kms, it's unrestricted to the 9000 RPM redline.

The tachometer blinks red if you exceed the rev limits. This is in addition to the shift light at the top of the dash.

So many bells, whistles and warnings...

Ah, technology!
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Very cool. I had no idea that tech had been around since 2008.
 
Relax said:
Way before then, if you count their cars. My 2001 M3 tach does this, and I'm pretty sure other models as well.
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That's pretty impressive. And here I was thinking that self-cancelling turn signals were the new thing. Time to step up my game.
 
I like it better when the rev limiter is in my head.

As for self cancelling signals. Had em on my 86 Wing.
 
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