Afan
Elite Member
Generally, no, but in my case: yes.
I've tested the behavior many times, and here's what drives me nuts: I'm in 6th gear, riding at around 60 mph, and start to decelerate slowly. As I reach 38-39 mph (the speed when the D-mode shifts gears up from 5th to 6th), if I try to accelerate up again slowly or maintain the speed at that moment, the sound I get is like a bad Harley, like a thumper. I can hear it, and I can feel the "thumping" in my legs, hands, and butt. To get rid of it, I have to roll the throttle faster as if I'm trying to accelerate rapidly or downshift with my thumb.
I tested two other NCs with DCT (one of them was the same year), and their process of changing gears in D-mode was much, much smoother.
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, I had my service done last weekend, and I explained the issue to the technician. They reset and "re-learned" the ECU, but it didn't help.
While I was servicing my motorcycle I test-rode a 2015 NC700X with manual transmission and found this:
1) I realized that several "noises" that I thought were caused by the DCT are actually caused by the NC700X engine itself and have nothing to do with the DCT (relief)
2) The manual NC700X and the DCT version of the same motorcycle in M-mode are almost identical in terms of behavior, noise, and vibration, with the only difference being the way you change gears, of course.