Joined Aug 2014
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Agreed, a guard like the Multistrada would be very nice. My touring jacket would appreciate it too!!!
What's your biggest complaint about the Hyperstrada?
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Agreed, a guard like the Multistrada would be very nice. My touring jacket would appreciate it too!!!
This is from the Owner's manual
Turn indicators (automatic reset)
Turn indicators are automatically reset by the instrument panel.
After activating one of the two turn indicators, they can be deactivated using the reset button (4). If the turn indicator is not "reset" manually, the instrument panel will automatically switch it off after the motorcycle has travelled 500 m (0.3 miles) from when the turn indicator was activated.
The counter for the distance travelled for automatic deactivation is activated at speeds below 80 Km/h (50 mph).
If the calculation of the distance for automatic deactivation is activated and then the motorcycle exceeds a speed of 80 km/h (50 mph), the calculation is interrupted and will restart when the speed returns below the indicated threshold.
This is my only complain of this bike.
This function is useless.
- Who drives below 80 km/h?
- And if you do, 500 m with turning lights on is a long distance.
Has anyone been able the modify this function, removing the speed limit or the distance?
Turn indicators (automatic reset)
Turn indicators are automatically reset by the instrument panel.
After activating one of the two turn indicators, they can be deactivated using the reset button (4). If the turn indicator is not "reset" manually, the instrument panel will automatically switch it off after the motorcycle has travelled 500 m (0.3 miles) from when the turn indicator was activated.
The counter for the distance travelled for automatic deactivation is activated at speeds below 80 Km/h (50 mph).
If the calculation of the distance for automatic deactivation is activated and then the motorcycle exceeds a speed of 80 km/h (50 mph), the calculation is interrupted and will restart when the speed returns below the indicated threshold.
This is my only complain of this bike.
This function is useless.
- Who drives below 80 km/h?
- And if you do, 500 m with turning lights on is a long distance.
Has anyone been able the modify this function, removing the speed limit or the distance?
Joined Mar 2013
3K Posts | 161+
Naples, IT
Agree, quite useless. I just kill the turn signal right before I begin my turn as I hate being the guy who leaves his blinker on. I'm also one of the few riders that signals every lane change and am pretty good about canceling and checking that I didn't leave it on.
A fuel gauge is my main thing - so far the bike has been very reliable.
The curious thing about the fuel gauge - or lack of it - is that the sensor that detects low fuel is pretty consistent - 4 more nodes on that circuit and you have a gauge. I'm pretty sure that all bike instrument panels use stock chips so a bar gauge is built in there somewhere.
What I'm getting at is it would have required very little effort - and it's a pain in the *** not having it.
Otherwise - I've done 3 1000 mile plus backroad camping trips this year and it's been wonderful.
The curious thing about the fuel gauge - or lack of it - is that the sensor that detects low fuel is pretty consistent - 4 more nodes on that circuit and you have a gauge. I'm pretty sure that all bike instrument panels use stock chips so a bar gauge is built in there somewhere.
What I'm getting at is it would have required very little effort - and it's a pain in the *** not having it.
Otherwise - I've done 3 1000 mile plus backroad camping trips this year and it's been wonderful.
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Mine was very difficult to handle, especially when the engine was cold. After a few thousand Kilometers it is much easier.
Mine was very difficult to handle, especially when the engine was cold. After a few thousand Kilometers it is much easier.
Joined Mar 2013
3K Posts | 161+
Naples, IT
Are you talking about the spanner wrench to adjust chain tension? Or the ignition key?
I paid $15 for a spanner.
Here's a peeve: the engine cases are made of plastic - or look like plastic, and only vaguely hint at a motor underneath. For all I hear about Italian attention to detail, I think Suzuki has them well beaten in this area. I don't lose sleep over it but it could have been nicer.
Joined Mar 2013
3K Posts | 161+
Naples, IT
Another problem with those plastic engine cases: The bottle-type brush I use to get in the frame nooks and crannies recently scratched up all those surfaces. I guess the wire core that holds the bristles became exposed. Normal eye wouldn't catch the scratches but I almost cried.
Original chain and forks are garbage.
Chain rusts easily
Forks bottom out worse than a lowrider in a pothole factory.
Chain rusts easily
Forks bottom out worse than a lowrider in a pothole factory.
Joined Nov 2013
1K Posts | 1+
Inland SoCal
How silly. There are plastic covers over the cam belt and drive sprocket, otherwise it's painted or powder coated aluminum, just like 99% of new bikes. Form follows function. This is a naked bike, it's easy to cover ugliness with plastic cowls and fairings. Exactly what Suzuki are you comparing it to? Perhaps this one?
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How silly. There are plastic covers over the cam belt and drive sprocket, otherwise it's painted or powder coated aluminum, just like 99% of new bikes. Form follows function. This is a naked bike, it's easy to cover ugliness with plastic cowls and fairings. Exactly what Suzuki are you comparing it to? Perhaps this one?
It's not so silly - Ducati makes big bones about "italian attention to detail" etc - and they're not giving stuff away, so when I look at that black blob that vaguely indicates an engine I think about how they could have given it a bit more thought.
I only brought up suzuki because they make a very nice v twin and it looks like metal and you can discern its function via its form, but even my Honda cb500f had a very nicely detailed engine (not to mention no brake sounds, no gas tank sound and a gas gauge).
For all that, I do like the machine - but this is a gripe thread so I griped.
Joined Mar 2013
3K Posts | 161+
Naples, IT
What's funnier is how it will sometimes wait until I walk into the garage. Seriously, sometimes I'll open the door to the garage and it fires a fart off.
Yeah! Last night, I walked into the garage to work on something, opened the door, turned on the light, and at that precise moment it let out a nice long one. I couldn't help but laugh.
Is that the Ducati "character" they keep telling me about?
