Final piece of the R1 jigsaw fitted today. I have a tail tidy in its box but I'm not sure I can be arsed to fit it - too much wire cutting and splicing to fuck up.
So having bought a low mileage standard 2010 R1 for pretty much trade money I sourced a pair of carbon Akkys and an Akky Ti decat pipe for reasonable money.
Then I tried something new. Rather than pursue the usual Power Commander route and custom map route I took the advice of a number of people on the R1 forum and sent my ECU away to Mike at Velox racing who reflashed it to YEC spec and changed mucho stuff including eliminating engine braking, having the bike firing up in A mode as standard and turning on the Quickshifter function too. Having got it back and fitted it, my God, what a massive difference. Far more noticeable than any PC and custom map.
Final piece of the jigsaw was lucking in and finding a strain guage Quickshifter of the same kind that Velox sell including a shift rod on eBay. As they only work with reflashed ECUs it weren't a very popular auction and I ended up sorting it for a smidge over £80. Absolute bargain.
Fitted it today and running it up on the paddock stand it appears to work very well including some superb bangs and pops during shifting that only a decat and spark cut shifter can give you.
Looking forward to trying it around the airfield next weekend.
Add to that my new road bike was finally sorted this morning today has been a good new toys day.
Winner
Always good when a plan comes together, ENJOY
I'm completely sold on the reflash method. The whole setup inc QS cost just £240 (much less than a new PCV on its own) and approx 45 mins in the garage. No tank lifting or injector plug sequencing to faff about with at all. The biggest faff was sorting the shift rod.
A PCV, custom map and HM Shifter would have been over £1000 :afro:
Sounds like a good job sorted :-)
Test ride proved the Quickshifter to be easily as good as a top end HM shifter.
Very happy.
Sounds good Moz ... you better have arranged sunshine ! 6 hours each way to drink tea is a bit much ;-)