Who owns a cross-plane crank R1? Thoughts? Any issues?
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civiclegend said:
I'm sure you don't need any more persuasion now, but I had a grey 2012 model in Singapore for 18 months and absolutely loved it. It was super easy to ride around the pathetic 90 kmh roads of Sing, and then very capable once unleashed on Sepang (a dozen times in my tenure).
I would say if you plan on taking it on track, the brake fluid definitely needs changing for something more suitable, that and some more aggressive pads, as I found the stoppers were frankly a bit weak when compared to those found on an S1000 RR or Panigale. That said despite the supposed horsepower deficit I rarely got left behind on Sepangs extremely long straights - MSS bikes excepted.
Had Yoshi R77 cans on mine, which definitely filled out a little midrange torque and improved the noise immeasurably, the weight of the standard cans is actually not excessive though, being titanium.
The traction control is totally unintrusive, although in the lower settings you do feel it keeping the front wheel on the deck quite obviously, I would have it wound wide open at 130 mph in 4th gear exiting turn 3, believing myself to be some sort of a god, when I realised the little orange light was blinking at me frantically in a 'you couldnt do this without me' kind of way. ;-)
I did have my suspicions about the clutch as it felt perfect to start with, and over the next 4000 km or so, it developed a bit of a 'gritty' feel as I fed it out, and sometimes would cause a bit of a jump instead of a smooth application of torque to the back wheel. Never felt like it was going to fail outright though.
One other tip - range on the light is 57.2 km...
Some pics:
Good write up - Looks lovely!! I would say if you plan on taking it on track, the brake fluid definitely needs changing for something more suitable, that and some more aggressive pads, as I found the stoppers were frankly a bit weak when compared to those found on an S1000 RR or Panigale. That said despite the supposed horsepower deficit I rarely got left behind on Sepangs extremely long straights - MSS bikes excepted.
Had Yoshi R77 cans on mine, which definitely filled out a little midrange torque and improved the noise immeasurably, the weight of the standard cans is actually not excessive though, being titanium.
The traction control is totally unintrusive, although in the lower settings you do feel it keeping the front wheel on the deck quite obviously, I would have it wound wide open at 130 mph in 4th gear exiting turn 3, believing myself to be some sort of a god, when I realised the little orange light was blinking at me frantically in a 'you couldnt do this without me' kind of way. ;-)
I did have my suspicions about the clutch as it felt perfect to start with, and over the next 4000 km or so, it developed a bit of a 'gritty' feel as I fed it out, and sometimes would cause a bit of a jump instead of a smooth application of torque to the back wheel. Never felt like it was going to fail outright though.
One other tip - range on the light is 57.2 km...
Some pics:
Edited by civiclegend on Wednesday 1st October 15:45
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