No not out of choice, sports bikes are for the open road. I have commuted on storms from time to time, especially in winter when I feel it needs a run and the weathers ok i'll go to work on it.cybercarl wrote:No row's here mate but this is exactly why I didn't want to say anything and let people work it out for themselves. I suppose the fact that the TPS is set out of the factory for best emissions and not best performance tuning helps as well does it. Hence the reason that every TPS is set to a different reading. No two bikes will be exactly the same out the factory.
I think I will take factory pro's word for it after their years of performance tuning and extensive testing on an eddy current dyno. It also says to adjust to 500 Ohms in the Honda workshop manual. And like I say it worked for me. Yes there are some people out there that say it doesn't do anything for them and yes there are some people that say it has improved things. Some with standard engines and some with highly modified. But it is simple to put back to as it was previously if one makes a note of what it is set at to begin with so worth a try. Along with proper tuning it helps.
Tuning alone did not solve it for me but helped, so I then adjusted the TPS which did. This proved to me that the TPS does indeed have an effect. I made no other changes between tuning and adjusting the TPS.
Anyway I didn't think you would be seen crawling along in heavy traffic.
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I'll happily eat humble pie if it made my bike feel better, but i've not personally found low speed any more of an issue on vtr's than any other bike. What I cant grasp is why Honda would set it at one thing then advise something else in the workshop manual. Maybe if your'e bored one day you can adjust mine and I'll to the taste test, as long as its not a right palava !!
