10-23-2013, 02:53 AM
(10-23-2013, 12:30 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Many motorcycles have been speed limited in the USA since 2001 and I doubt its printed in any of the sale brochures/promotional material put out by the manufacturers..the Suzuki Hyabusa, ZX 14 kawasaki, some Ducatis, the latest KTM, Aprilia V4, BMW 1000, MV Augusta, even the lowly Honda Fury if memory serves me, and there will be more to come.
The CB 1100 is speed limited because we were never supposed to get it, therefore is was limited to domestic regulations of 112 mph ( domestic being Japan). Americans begged for this bike..maybe we should have begged, but added the caveat " but only if it isn't speed limited", in which case we would have never seen it. Point is, we got the bike, the speed limiter in on there, so the solution as I see it is simple, either accept that fact and move on, or sell the dang thing and get something faster.
You left out one solution. Figure out how to get around the speed limiter and make a small pile selling your solution to those who don't want it on their bike.
The 'busas and ZX-14s that have been limited to 186 mph since 2000 have workarounds available. It's been awhile since I looked into it, but as I recall, one of the parameters for the limiter was being in the top two gears. The solution was a gadget that fooled the ecu into thinking that the bike was in a lower gear. Bike thinks it's in 4th, so the limiter doesn't activate.
I have no idea if our CB1100 limiters are similar, but the bottom line is that the limiter is based on a computer running a program. If you learn enough about the programming, you can likely hack your way around it.