B&M Supercooler

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....It's amazing the opinions people have of something they've never tried.

Ummm...Tod....if you keep reading, it says he has it installed right now.

I will say that I agree that if you plan to just ride in twistie mountain roads only and want to be able to really tear into them, then the stock FD is a better option. I never noticed it in first gear though as much as maybe needing to shift out of 5th gear earlier. With the stock 5th gear and my riding style (pretty laid back really) I barely shifted out of 5th except at a stop light or when stuck behind a harley in the twisties.

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OK.. I misread that and my appologies. I took that as he had the 850 F/D on a parts bike and hadn't run it yet.

With this mod, 4th gear is almost exactly what stock 5th gear is, so yeah, when going to pass or something, I usually click down into 4th or even 3rd if I'm really in a hurry. BUT... if the motor is lugging at all in 1st around twists, curves, stops.. etc... and like it needs to go even lower, I am thinking there's some carb or exhaust tuning problems taking away the low end grunt. I've been on lots and lots of mountainy twisty roads through Arkansas and Colorado where there's 5 and 10mph switchbacks with dozens of feet elevation change difference from going into the curve and coming out. Most of the time I'm in 2nd, but when I go down to first on a steep incline like that and hammer it, the front wheel starts coming up, or if there's a lot of tar on the surface, it'll break traction. There's never been a time I wished there was even a LOWER gear except riding two up and taking off from a stop on a steep uphill grade?


Tod

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Cody's turned me on to the setup he had installed on 'Zilla... don't know if you ever got to see that bike before he let it go, but it was an awesome tourer.

I think I read about the mod but I never saw the bike or the pictures.

I ran into fuel problems last summer when I was planning to go up to Oregon, Washington and Canada, back down into Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, then back home to California. I only made it to Washington, then had to go home. There's no way I would have made it across some of the long stretches between gas stations so it's probably a good thing that brilliant plan got canceled.

The fuel cell is an interesting idea and I may try it out with a vacuum-driven pump to transfer the fuel. I don't like to get electricity and gasoline too close to one another in the same system and systems that I will be perched upon receive extra scrutiny!

Curious, does the same key fit in all of the latches? or do you know have to carry 4 keys around?

Drake, they all have the same key so you don't need to carry four separate keys! Handy to know that 10,000 other people probably have the exact same key, too.... They're a little heavier and it's no big deal to drill the holes and align the latches, just watch out for the fiberglass -- wear gloves, use a dust mask and don't rub your face or bite your fingernails. Even wearing gloves and scrubbing down afterward didn't get all of the powdered glass from drilling so I wound up with a itchy rash on my forearms. The new latches work really nice though!

OK.. I misread that and my appologies. I took that as he had the 850 F/D on a parts bike and hadn't run it yet.

No problem, Tod! <laughing> The bike has plenty of power with the 750 FD even though it's not as heavy-duty as the OEM FD so I still don't trust it 100%. The bike won't wheelie because it's a shaft drive and everyone knows shaft drive bikes can't wheelie!

Seriously, the fairing helps hold it down but my favorite canyon around here goes up almost a mile in altitude with about the same distance on the road and the hairpins are so tight the engine starts to lug. It has enough brute horsepower and torque to pull the corners in-grade but I can feel each individual piston fire. These bikes were meant to stay on a rolling boil like fine Asian kettles and that's too low for good oil pressure under load!

There's never been a time I wished there was even a LOWER gear except riding two up and taking off from a stop on a steep uphill grade?

Nail; hammer.

My friend came out from Australia to go for a three state ride with me last summer. She had a blast but it was a little rough taking off on some dirt/gravel driveways, hills, and a few off-camber intersections. We both enjoyed 'magic carpet mode' once things got rolling.


Regards,

Scott