I have an appointment tomorrow with Matthew @ SpeedLab. I have a +400km ride to get there.
Did some preliminary research and am very much looking forward to getting the issues I don’t like dealt with.
I’ll post up results after a multi day trip in New England States with missus, taking place immediately after I leave Richmond Hill.
Will also have a review of Trailmax Mission tires as well.
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After 3000km (2500 2up)added to the flash date on above trip I have some notes on the T part of the flash and the tires.
Tires first: After all kinds of very bad pavement to nice shiny new stuff (but very little gravel) the tires have performed very well. I road on wet pavement (Including light rain) in temps as high as 70F and as low as 36F. There was never a sign of slippage or any concern for cornering angle. All I can say is they do the job with no issue. After 4500km accumulated you can barely tell the tires have been used. (From what I've seen so far I would have to think there is a real possiblilty of running 20K km with no concern of running out of rubber).
I like them better after the trip than I did the first 1500 km. Maybe I have come to trust them now, LOL.
The only niggles would be that they are a little noisy, but not terrible( I do wear ear plugs though). Noisier than I expected but not near as bad as a knobby. ( The Traimax's on my DR are much quieter) AND your gas mileage will take a min of 5% hit rising slightly according to sustained speeds. (These tires are heavy).
Now for the flash: I have not used the S mode very much as of yet. The roads were wet on return from NewMarket (An 880Km day) and it is not approved by my pillion (smile). The difference between the two is very much Jeckel and Hyde now.(more than stock). The decel abruptness is much smoother is S but the power application is very quick. (I did use it at speed for short time I was on interstate at speed). I need to do some one up stuff where I can experiment a little with individual gears and reactions etc. (S pulls hard from lower rpm and requires wrist adjustment period to become accustomed to the change)
Touring mode is now much , much smoother. Decel is somewhat reduced but still stronger than my FJR. It is very easy to ride smoothly with pillion, and does absolutely nothing unexpected. Throttle snatch is just gone and made me realize just how much I was compensating for it in effort to be smooth for pillion. Fuel mileage has not suffered I don't think.
(really hard to compare as much colder temps encountered than my previous records as well as TrailMax tires. This will require more time as well as I have records of every tank with and without Tmax as well as Tmax with flash.
Mathew at Speedlab knows the ST well and good to work with . I had one baseline dyno run and 3 runs with fine tuning reflashes for my bike . Bike is stock with spark arrestor screen removed. Picked up 5hp and a 3ftlb, but driveability improvement is huge. I did not raise redline but did lower fan on temp to 98C ,off 94C.
That's all I have for now.