The "Today I did something to my bike" thread

Maybe bring a cushion and lie down on the tank?

Soon...

A good day today.
Fitted the power commander this morning.
Here's a few pics of the install.
It may or may not help someone in the future.


Firstly remove side infill and place power commander.


Then remove bolts from side faring and bottom fairing.
Run wires down along main harness and cable tie them.


Now I had to remove 2 bolts that hold the coolant reservoir and move it out of the way.
Now you can disconnect the connectors.
The red arrow points to the connector to the throttle bodies an the yellow arrow to the connector to the main harness.
Your Power Commander connects to these.


Now connect the ground wire to an engine casing bolt and Bobs your uncle!!


I have an O2 sensor eliminator that I actually forgot to fit but bike seems ok without it.
I was expecting a fault code or something to appear but so far so good.

Now for the icing on the cake.......
I have a set of Blue Flame Cans ordered but they still haven't been shipped
A second hand set of carbon Two Brothers have popped up so I have cancelled the Blue Flames.

The Two Brothers are 275 cheaper as well so delighted as they would have been my first choice anyway!

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Two Brothers are the ****ING BIZZO!!! Well jelly I am.....

They just popped up out of the blue this morning.
Went for a test spin after fitting the Power Commander and called to a lad out the road.
He was on the phone to someone about a totally different bike.
I don't know what was said but the guy on the phone had a set for sale.
Said they were mint. €400.

Your power commaner isnt really gonna do anything until you have a map on it and loaded up. You need to download the dynojet software and plug the pc3 into your computer.

If there is a map already on it and you have hooked up the pc3 to your bike then you currently have no way to know if the fueling settings is good or bad for your bike. Personally i wouldnt drive the bike with an unknown map in it.

You dont know what exhausts, filter etc.... that map was made for.
Just pop onto the dynojet website and see if they have a premade map for you bike with your echausts and youe air filter.

Even then it wont be spot on because you dont know what climate that map was made in but at least you will know what map is in the power commander.

For all you know the map that in it is flooding your bike or running it crazy lean.

Yeah man, there really is no better sound than those exhausts. Its what i had on my vstrom and its what i have on the way for my fz1

Have you driven it yet?

Giz a shot of yer bike mister!

Gave the bike an oil and filter change today. Washed it too. Will hopefully get some time to ACF50 it next weekend.

Also decided to mount my Contour Roam on the bike. Put it under the headlight, seems like the best place. Used some 3M VHB tape so hopefully it stays in place. Need to find something to tether it to the bike before I trust going for a ride with it!

BlackWizard wrote: »

Have you driven it yet?

I have driven it quite a bit now!!!
Absolutely beautiful to drive now.
I'd really recommend getting your one tuned.
Power is so smooth now it has transformed the bike.

A little gurgling on the overrun with the odd little pop but when on the power it's a dream to ride!

The extra 11 ponies I have now is an added bonus!!!

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Yeah I bet it was a pain over taking anything bigger then a micra!!!!
Lol

Ah Shur, I'll try and put up with it for now!:D

Hooray for Handguards!!

THey are made by PowerMadd, they are the Sentinel Handguards. They made a few different types.

They sure do interfer with the fairing. Its not possible to get a full lock on the bars with them on. But really how often is that needed....

The bar turn angle is reduced just where i can get a steering lock on. Even then the handguard is slightly pressing against the screen. Pretty sure there will be a small mark down the handguard after a while from it

scudster wrote: »

It wasn't today I done this but it was recently enough.
Ordered a sheet of 4mm aluminium and made a bash plate for the Husky.
In hindsight it would have worked out cheaper to buy one but I like making stuff. Heres a few pics of during and after the fab.

What a neat job, that turned out really well. Did you score all the bends with an angle grinder and then bend by hand?

Did you weld that up with the blue protective film in place?

Haha, going from the most DIY, super-impressive job above to the technical leper's 3 hex bolts hugger install.