Hitting full throttle with one twist.

[XS1100 Newbie]

I am wondering if any of you have this same problem, and what the cure is. I cannot get full throttle in one wrist movement. I have to move my hand on around the grip to get to full throttle. Is there a quick throttle set up for these, or some kind of an adjustment to quicken the throttle? The cable is taught to the carbs at this time.

[James England]

I've never been able to open to full throttle with one twist. I don't think the human wrist is capable of it actually! As far as I'm aware, the cable shouldn't actually be taut. Just the slack removed from it. If the cable is too taut, you'll be bypassing the throttle stop screw......

[CatatonicBug]

Yeah, that's pretty much the way it's supposed to be. Maybe if you reach around the front so your wrist is vertical, it might work, but 0-100% is about 1/4 turn, and that's 90º worth of twisting, a bit more than most wrists are happy with. Not sure why you'd need to go to WOT right off the line though...

[DGXSER]

Off the line you could reach around to start with and pull it to WOT, but I truly do not recall very often using WOT. If your a real acceleration and adrenaline junky you might though. I will say that a well tuned XS11 at WOT once you hit 4-5k is a split second to shifting gears.

But to answer your question, I know of no adjustment or modification to change the amount of rotation needed to get to WOT.

[SFerinTEXAS]

I would look at the cable where it clamps to the throttle. If the piece that the screw goes thru breaks off from the cable assy it will mess greatly with the throttle resulting in more twist needed. In answer to the original question in normal driving up to highway speed I don't have to readjust my grip.

[Elevener]

I dont like that either. You have to really reach forward to do it and that takes alot of fun out of it.

[XS1100 Newbie]

I guess that i should have explained further. When i am cruising, and i want to pass, or just crank on it, i would like to just open the throttle to WOT sometimes. I wouldn't do it from the start. At this point if i am cruising and hit it, i have to grab it twice. Maybe i am sort of a speed freak sometimes. They used to make quick throttles for dirt bikes back in the day.

[DGXSER]

Ahhh...got you Newbie. I will say that in my experiences, it has never taken much throttle movement to go from 65-70 MPH cruising beside traffic to go to 90 MPH and passing them all with ease. That is one of my favorite features of this bike, I can see myself entering the blind spot of a car I am approaching, and with almost just the thought, my wrist moves and I am past there drivers side window before I blink it seems. So if you need more than that...well...."Oh Blessed Mother of Acceleration, Don't Fail Me NOW!!!" Must be your mantra!!

[fredintoon]

- - - if i am cruising and hit it, i have to grab it twice. Maybe i am sort of a speed freak sometimes. They used to make quick throttles for dirt bikes back in the day.

Hi newbie,
most likely they still do. Thing is, the large drum diameter twistgrip sleeve won't fit inside the stock bar clamp that has the killswitch etc. built into it so you'll need to use the complete twistgrip and make other arrangements for the killswitch and starter button.

[subike]

I will say that in my experiences, it has never taken much throttle movement to go from 65-70 MPH cruising beside traffic to go to 90 MPH and passing them all with ease. That is one of my favorite features of this bike, I can see myself entering the blind spot of a car I am approaching, and with almost just the thought, my wrist moves and I am past there drivers side window before I blink

This is the very reason i love the XS, its roll on power,

Although you might like paying the local plod money for xsessive speed,

I am an acceleration junkie, to get full throttle with one twist can be done, depending upon where you grip the throttle in the first place, then its a matter of just dropping you ebow down, as you kiss the clocks with your chin to deduce drag, lay on the tank, hold on to the beast, keeping it in the 5 -8k rev range in all gears
But! hope you dont encounter any shimmy past 130mph!
Still, you must remember your stallon is 30+ , dont xspect it to play nice when you thrash it.

[petejw]

thats something else ive noticed with the keihin carbs,
u dont need to twist the throttle as much as u do with the
mikunis to get to wot.

[yamahansolo]

I had the same problem when I first got the bike. You can loosen the 2 screws on the bottom of the throttle assembly and rotate it back a little. The po had mine to far the other way so I actually had to drop my shoulder along with the wrist to even go to 3/4 throttle. I also noted it was much harder to twist than the other 8 or 9 bikes I had owned.
If you order a new cable from dennis kirk it turns super easy. But like someone said previously the little tab can break. I had daytona bars at the time I bought the cable and it put the tab off a little and made it break off. It was a pain after that until I got my zrx carbs running. It does go to wot much easier. Oh and the cables are like 12 bucks or so.

[79XS11F]

I am wondering if any of you have this same problem, and what the cure is. I cannot get full throttle in one wrist movement. I have to move my hand on around the grip to get to full throttle. Is there a quick throttle set up for these, or some kind of an adjustment to quicken the throttle? The cable is taught to the carbs at this time.

Hmmm, have never had to twist the grip to to its end to get full throttle? I have about 1 degree of free play at the start and can reach red line pretty comfortably within normal wrist movement.
Rob

[crazy steve]

There is a way to increase the 'quickness' of the throttle; mod the cable connection/throttle arm at the carb. Shorten the arm, reduce the amount of cable travel. This will increase effort and put additional strain on the cable though...

[LuckyEddie]

Hitting Full Throttle

Newbie,

I came across this on another forum. Check it out:
http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...t=throttle+mod

Hope this is helpful.