chasing an Aprillia..

I have done a full exhaust system, de-restricted the air box inlet , installed a K&N and a power commander V. I have 95.8 RWHP. Who has broken the 100hp mark and what did you do?.

Bet you weren't expecting THIS when you read the title of this thread lol

Recieved this tasty tidbit via mail the other day.

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It's a Fehling rack made in Germany. Kind of a long story goes with it. I first saw this rack in pictures of Django's CB1100. Now, I'm not a luggage rack kinda guy, but I liked how small it was, and how the vertical part resembled a grab rail from an early Honda CB750 (only with a really small rack attached to it). Decided I wanted one. I tried every Fehling distributor in the country and NO ONE would order this rack for me, not even Touratec. So I pm'd our fellow forum member Django to see if he could get me one. Django offered to obtain the rack for me and then ship it to me. Very generous offer on his part I must say. He only knows me as the Ferret. Anyhow he ordered the rack. A while later he got a message from Fehling that the rack was out of stock (it only fits the EX/Dlx's) and they didn't know when or IF they were going to make any more. RATS! well ok, no rack. No big deal.

A few weeks later he gets another message that they are going to make some more and did he still want it? Yes, I said. Then he called Fehling and found out it could be shipped directly to me. Cool. Paypal transaction completed thanks to my son. Now the wait begins. Django persistantly checks on it and finally recieves word that it has been shipped along with obtaining a DHL tracking number for me. I wait and wait. Wanted it before I left for Florida but it never came. Checked the DHL tracking number and it seemed to be in Germany forever, and then tracking stopped. Since I was gone I had my son driving to my house every day looking for a DHL package on the porch or by the garage. Nope. Finally I pm'd Django and Fehling. Djano advised patience ( he is waiting on an aerostitch roadcrafter from USA). Fehling says their tracking stops in Germany. Then they send me aother message saying that USPS had it and tried to deliver it. Now, I had a stop mail on my US post stuff so just maybe..... Got home Sat night at 9 and at 7:30 am Monday I was down at our local post office (small town post office where they know you). Now they don't open until 9 AM, but Mitzi my awesome mail lady saw me pull in and came over to see what was up. Mitzi are you holding a big box for me? Uh huh, would you like it? Oh yea................. Would you like the rest of your mail too? who cares, just give me the box.

Brother came over today and used 1/2 of Pteros excellent tute to install plus some advice from Django as to which spacers went where etc. Install went quite smoothly. Looks good don't you think?

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Big shout out to our buddy Django for going absolutely above and beyond the call of duty in helping a fellow forum member/motorcyclist out. It had to be a pain for him. He even sent me German install instructions and hardware pictures. The whole 9 yards.Django, thanks again, I am in your debt sir.

Anyhow, those going to the rally can see it in person. Pretty sure it's the only one like it in this country.

Does anyone know if the ECU is OBD2 compliant and to which standard protocol (e.g. ISO-xxxx)? Does it have a 16 pin OBD2 connector interface and if so, where is it?

What I want to do is attach and OBD2 dongle with either Bluetooth or WiFi and monitor PIDs with an app like TORQUE. The parameter of most interest is engine temperature, which is probably based on the existing EOT sensor.

I successfully did the same thing to my late model (EFI) Triumph Bonneville by handlebar mounting an Android 7" tablet. I did this primarily to monitor EOT of my oil/air cooled engine and a few other parameters, including instantaneous and average MPGs, which are actually calculated by the app. (The 2014 CB1100 center LCD already can do the latter, but there is no digital readout for EOT, just an idiot light.)

I can display up to eight virtual "gauges" of information on the app's dashboard, even HP and TQ, and others like IAT, MAP, MAF, as well as "Boost" for an OEM turbocharger. This can be safely and easily be done (while riding), and I already have the aforementioned OBD2 BT Adapter dongle and a companion app from ScanTool.net that works flawlessly on my Triumph.

I just need to know the specific OBD2 "standard" protocol HONDA is using on this bike. The adapter can do an automatic protocol determination, "if" the ECU supports the OBD2 standard, or by chance does HONDA use something proprietary. If proprietary, then this probably won't work.

Again, I am mainly interested in monitoring oil temperature (and pressure) since the bike already has sensors for those parameters.

So I shipped out my ECU today to Guhl Motors for a reflash. I know the CB is no sportbike, but I figure a few more hp, removed speed limiter, and snappier throttle response couldn't hurt! Can't wait to try 'er out!

I'll report back.

I've taken on a part time job wrenching for Triumph Classic Motorcycles in Costa Mesa, CA. http://triumphclassicmotorcycles.com/

Used my photo skills to shot a bike for them today.









TINK

Day 1—On which Cormanus heads south-west



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Saturday 23 April was a glorious autumn morning. I was on the CB1100 headed for Texas and it was much more agreeable riding weather than the [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8001]previous trip.


Heading off

This time, Texas was but a filling station on my way to Bingara in northern New South Wales where I’d meet up with Pterodactyl for a week’s adventuring in bits of Queensland I’ve not been before.

Since escaping the Solomon Islands in February, I’d been looking forward to a ride with Pterodactyl. I’d rung him to propose a date and he confessed to just having signed on for the [url=http://www.rumblersanzacride.com]Rumblers Anzac Ride through bits of central Queensland. He was keen as it would take him back to some places he hadn’t visited for many a year. And he’d laid out $50 for the pleasure. What could I do? I sighed of course, then signed on, paid my $50 and agreed to meet Pterodactyl a day early so we could ride to Taroom for the start of the ride.


It was a glorious morning as I hit the Centenary Highway

There’s nothing much new to describe in this part of the trip. I took to the highways to get myself south reasonably quickly. It’s pretty enough, but mostly straight and there are a few cars. But soon the Border ranges loom in the distance.



And then you’re through Aratula, climbing towards Cunningham’s Gap and looking at the range that gives the Scenic Rim its name.





Even though the Gap is at a modest 2,500 feet, it was surprisingly cool as I went through the pass and I was glad to get off the bike for fuel and coffee at Warwick. I didn’t quite need fuel, but I wanted to make it to Texas.

My original plan had been to repeat the ride to Stanthorpe and then across to Texas. I’d enjoyed the road and I was keen to ride it again. However, as I drank my coffee I decided it’s always a good idea to look at alternatives and decided on a different route that would see me turning off the Cunningham Highway just west of Oman Ama.

In an attempt to maintain some level of neuronic activity as I age, I try not to rely on a GPS when riding, particularly in rural areas where it usually isn’t too hard to find turn offs. This day was no different and the GPS wasn't running. So, of course, I missed the turn off and ended up in Inglewood a little further along the road.


At a comfort stop (for the rider) between Warwick and Inglewood

No problems, I thought, there’s a good road from Inglewood to Texas.

It’s an excellent road. Great surface, good visibility, but straight as a die and as boring as batsh*t as you can see in the next picture.



‘Get used to it Cormanus,’ I thought, ‘many of the roads you’ll ride on this trip will have that many curves!’

Fifty or so kilometres later I had refuelled and was eating lunch in Texas.


Parked at the lunch stop at Texas. For younger readers, the curious object behind the pole is a telephone box: an artefact of civilisation now largely redundant. In the days before the ubiquitous mobile phone it was a critical centre of communication.


Shortly after leaving Texas, I was over the Dumresq River and into New South Wales.

During long weekends in Australia (and this was one, of which I’ll have more to say later) local State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers provide ‘driver revivers’ designed to reduce road accidents brought about by fatigue. The volunteers set up somewhere with an urn full of boiling water, a jar of instant coffee, a box of tea bags, milk, sugar, polystyrene cups and biscuits. The then stick up clumsily drawn but charming signs to invite you to stop. Drivers who do stop are rewarded with a free drink and biscuit and are invited to make a donation to help the work of the SES.

The SES is an amalgam of state government employees and a much larger number of volunteers who turn out during periods of crisis and havoc to provide welcome community assistance. If, for example, there’s an appalling hailstorm and roofs are damaged, it’s the SES that’ll turn out to patch them and provide emergency assistance. It’s an important organisation and well worth chucking a few bob at.

Arriving in Warialda, south and west of Texas, I needed a comfort stop. I stopped at the local driver reviver. Three or four middle-aged women were sitting around in a deserted shelter shooting the breeze and one of them got up to make me a cup of tea. Another appeared to clean up while I drank my tea and we talked about important stuff like the weather and how dry it was and where I’d come from and was going.

Then we talked about their pet gecko, who did not seem to me to be in peak condition. We picked it off the bench and tried to feed it some water and a biscuit crumb. I’m not sure it was destined to be with us for too much longer.


The Warialda gecko

I wandered off to finish my tea and another bike pulled in. John, a middle-aged bloke on a Kawasaki Ninja 300, had recently got his driver’s licence and was out and about improving his skills. We chatted for a bit and I admired his bike before he headed off, slightly erratically I thought, pleased he was improving his skills in a small country town.

Half an hour or so later I was rumbling across the bridge over the Gwydir River and into Bingara where I was to meet Pterodactyl.



I poked about for somewhere to camp before making my way into town for a coffee and a brief wait until Pterodactyl arrived.





After refuelling for an easy getaway in the morning, we explored camping options in consultation with some clever app on Pterodactyl’s phone and a conversation with a local oracle before deciding on the local caravan park.


It was a short walk to the local hostelry where the barmaid was amiable, the beer cool and the food acceptable. Even better, there was a half-decent red to be found and we enjoyed a chat about this, that and motorcycles before Pterodactyl unburdened himself about the first two elements of his terrible trip.

The first was that he’d been caught in terrible, terrible rain the day before to the point that he could not pitch his tent and had to camp in someone’s shed he found by the way.

The second was that his much-loved Bose noise-cancelling headphones had developed a ghastly squeal that was beginning to make wearing them an ordeal as they screamed at his left ear every time he hit a bump or a large truck passed by.

I consoled him with another red before we took a gentle stroll back to our camp. We tested out portable chairs over a glass of [url=https://www.stonesoriginal.com.au/our-products/stone-s-mac]Stones Mac—a concoction Pterodactyl carries in case of emergency—before retiring.

Letter to editor in this months Motorcyclist from Attila Gyarmati of Hungary via the US now.

excerpt

" I fulfilled a totally different yearning and recently bought an MV Augusta Brutale 1090. This bike however did not satisfy me....I came to the conclusion it had to go.....in 2013 Honda came out with the CB1100.... I just had to buy it, and since then I am in motorcycling heaven."

editor responds:

" Thanks for the fresh perspective Attila. It's not often we hear about a CB1100 delivering where a Brutale 1090 fails"

lol HEY MOTORCYCLIST.. you are just not listening to US!

Picked up a new to me Sony action cam. Did my first video. Still figuring out the details as I go. The audio was pretty bad at higher speeds so I just edited out most of my audio. If you have 20 min of time and bored out of your mind then check it out. I don't talk to much about the bike or really at all but their is some cool parts. Remember this is the very first time i have ever done this including editing But i promise it will get better, lol.

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Got in late last night from an 8 day trip to Fla with my wife. We went to do some birding on Sanibel island and to celebrate our 42nd wedding anniversary and my latest birthday (the 2 events are 1 week apart). Great trip except for the heat 88-100 degrees everyday between 10am and 7 pm), bugs (mosquitos, sand fleas and no-seeums), expensive airline tickets, car rental, resort room and expensive meals (breakfast lunch or dinner, didn't matter, seemed like it cost $35-$40) lol. The really bad part was no riding for me for 8 days and you guys know how that went over with me. While I was gone my younger brother picked up his new 2016 Triumph Bonneville, so this morning after watching the MotoGP, I rode over and met him for a more reasonably priced lunch ($4 double cheeseburger with pickle and catsup and fries..) and a short 104 mile ride on some nice country roads. He even let me ride his brand new bike with 70 miles on it (review to follow)

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The 2016 Bonnie is a nice machine. Very smooth, slick trans with 6 speed (which I never got into 6th..barely into 5th), light clutch, good brakes, light handling, and it was easy for me to touch the ground. Better seat than the previous Bonnie, and it comes with gaiters, nice sounding pipes, a grab rail and a center stand, all options on my 2003 Bonnie. It feels bigger than the previous gen Bonnie too. All of the visual cues on the new triumph are much better than the previous version. Power starts building exponentially at about 3000, but since we weren't taking it over 4K during break in, I didn't get to feel just how strong it was, but it likes being over 3k rpms. As a matter of fact if it gets below that point it feels like it wants to be down shifted, and the engine feels more comfortable when that is done. As we never got over 55 mph on todays ride that meant spending all our time in the first 4 gears. Strange for me. On my CB I would be in 5th or 6th even and my brother would be in 3rd or 4th. So far he has only made it into 6th gear once. Couple of strange things on the new Bonnie, the clock is a 24 hour clock and it can't be set to a 12 hour clock. So 1 PM is 13:00. Since my brother doesn't ride at night we set his clock to read 3:35 at 3:35 pm instead of 15:35. Maybe that will work for him, so all the military numbers will be after midnight. Of course early morning rides will be messed up but he's a late sleeper anyway lol. In lieu of that Motion Pro or someone makes a 12 hour bolt on clock he can get.

Secondly both the speedo and tack are registered with numbers which read 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and it's confusing to tell which is the tach and which is the speedo. On my brothers first 30 mile solo ride after trailering the bike home from the dealer, he told me he kept it under 4K rpms but in reality was keeping it under 40 mph lol

It's a beautiful bike, but I prefer my CB.