Recent content by dduelin

The 11 day IBA rally ship has sailed for me but I think I have another SS1000 or BBG in the future. I wasn't successful in the 2015 attempt and the last time I checked no one had done a BBG on an NC.

One of our members ld_rider completed the Iron Butt Rally a few years ago with a similar set up. There's been another one or two auxiliary tank installations that I can't recall the forum member's name. Yours is much more well done than the one I did to make 250 miles @ 80 mph fuel stops...

While the "half a Jazz/Fit engine" story did come out of a joke the NC project team leader shared with a room full of motorcycle journalists there is some substance to the story behind the offhand comment. For the first time in known Honda Motor Co history, that motorcycle project team met...

I hope the waiting ends soon for you.

Sounds about right. Fairly often a thread comes along with a concern about how the NC engine feels at certain RPMs or speaking to fears of lugging the engine. Honda engineering did a good job and in 12 years we don't have threads about engine problems caused by asking too much out of the engine...

Today I removed the Honda Accessory 45L top case and drilled two holes in the luggage rack in order to mount the Z255 Givi universal Monokey base plate that's been collecting dust in my garage for a long time. I can remove the Givi base plate in the future to reinstall the Honda box if I want...

How does the 2012-2017 DCT respond to changes in road speed that indicate the PCM is aware [responding to] the rider using large throttle settings followed by aggressive braking as in when riding hard on a twisty road? Specifically how does it hold shift points higher momentarily until it...

In the USA AC means a motorcycle legal to sell in all 50 states of the United States. An A suffix indicates that for some reason it is not available for sale in the state of California which for many years had separate emission standards from the other 49 states. AC bikes in some models had...

As the last step in the reset the engine is started and allowed to idle until a self diagnosis program runs its course and determines the DCT is operating within design specifications. I could be wrong but it seems logical that there are some max and min parameters to clutch take up based on...

670cc wrote: As the DCT apparently does not adequately self adjust to compensate for changes or wear in the clutch....... How did you come to this conclusion?

Perhaps the tech has never owned or ridden a DCT long enough to understand what a reset may accomplish. It doesn't hurt anything if not done and may be helpful to a small degree if done. Safe play to follow Honda's recommendations. To the 'myth'....... I don't know the term for this but Honda's...

A motorcycle transmission is designed to handle the N to 1st gear engagement for the expected service life of the unit. All motorcycles that use a similar constant mesh sequential shift transmission with the clutch in an oil bath are prone to this clunk or bang. The clutch plates stick from...

Brake rotors can get a hot spot where friction material is adhered to the surface of the rotor. It's thought that when the brake is held tightly against a very hot rotor it sets up the material transfer. You can't even see it but a buff with brake cleaner and a very fine scotchbrite pad should...

We drove the car to NW Arkansas to watch it in the small town where my dad was born 109 years ago. Psalm 19 sums it up for me. High clouds cleared to blue skies for the entirety of the afternoon.

The Cogent DDCs are about 5/8” thick and set on top of the springs will increase ride height by that much. There is sufficient fender clearance to slip the fork legs up in the triple clamp to account for this so fork ride height doesn’t change.