Starting and Idle Impressions.
I coined the R, a.k.a., ABSkiddy 555 is watt I named it, writing this sentence down just now. So for project 555 for short, I was up late last night redesigning what I found by accident on the other air cleaner pod. There were 2 anchor points to stabilize the cans. One was solid as a rock. The other had a wobble to it. So I copied the stout side, left the one welding rod to keep it place, pulled the other off. I now have 3 anchor points holding the other pod from flopping around. Meguyveerated is more it looks a mess. But it works and who cares, right? They were rock solid as the ride carried on is my point. So, yes I'm missing the bladder effect with ram and the aerodynamics as well. If it feels unstable at cough-cough speeds, I'll plop on some weight with the nose and stabilize it some. But for now, all seems fine.
Now mind you, I have less than 70 miles under my ears and under my rear end feelers. So I'll start out with the bike starting up. If it was deja'vu all over again, it's how this R starts. I'm going to review back and forth about both gens. My beloved '06 would wheelie down an incline it was that brutal of a throttle tune.
My '08 had 1 more HP gain was the brochure, but for sure, the '06 and '08 were two different animals. Each had a matched injector to ECU configuration. I missed the last gen-1 family being, the '09/10 series and those updates that came to an end to the 14 series. Intro the R series for 20012. So ends the first gen family of the 14 family. I learned plenty off both bikes, and it is more or less a hobby. No place to go as to watt I've found out. Useless trivia is all.
That is why I've had the R for a few weeks and have slowly pieced things together to it. I've taken off as much as possible once again. Today was the first shakedown. I'm just trying to work you up to that starting up issue and riding off into the first brake and break-in round.
As the days tumbled by, the R needing a start up or two for some electrical work, it lit off like the '08. Not one hesitation. To me, that says sync'd to a gnats ass. And as I walk thru this new gen w/out an idle cable, I can hear it two step. Or watched the tach needle step down to a controlled idle. Has to be one of them inputs feeding and now without the idle cable to come back once and idle. See that move? Beats me? Something is going on. Now remember, I'm about to be knocking on the ABSkidoors is why I took the step upgrading to the R. WATTie wenthru with both bikes and that mess'oh'wires, oh, I see myself starting all over again with this bike too.
But not so fast will be the swap. There is a lot to get used to on this bike. The starting and now this 2-step back to idle is kind of interesting. Right now, I don't want to lose that setup. So between the instant start up, there is no way I could come close to matching that electronics with a cable style... Che-w0w-WOW this is nice.
I'm about to have the same feeling that I could care less if I ever see a carb again. This non-cable I was hesitant about, I'm beginning to thing I could care less if I ever see an idle cable ever again! Yeah, [if only] aprilia could idle this well being cableless and all too. I think we have a winner is it all starts here.
Impression 2-2 follow...