Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

I just finished fitting a McCruise Unit to the Africa Twin. Really nicely built kit from across the ditch. Very comprehensive and accurate installation instructions for type. Works well, very happy. Because my AT is not ride by wire, the kit includes a servo and cable interface unit which makes it a tad more expensive than the kit for the RBW versions. The latest AT has factory cruise control.

Picto coded control


Cable interface unit, 1=Re-routed throttle pull cable, 2=kit cable to throttle body, 3=kit cable from servo unit


Servo unit


The little computer sits under the pillion seat and most of the 6 hour install was making the connections to power, brake switch, coil, speed sensor etc.

Be interested in how you find it.
My previous bike had a fast idle lever.
Could crank it on and have a good stretch with it chugging at about 4000 rpm.
The one I have now doesn't have it.

Came across this old photo of my RZ250 today. I do miss my two strokes.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Came across this old photo of my RZ250 today. I do miss my two strokes.
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I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers. Lost a good 30kgs of unneccessary heavy silencers, and woke her up sufficiently so that my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Originally Posted by XR500

I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers. Lost a good 30kgs of unneccessary heavy silencers, and woke her up sufficiently so that my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Those big twin Suzukis' with expansion chambers sounded dangerous alright. The '84 RZ500 I bought new, sounded like a washing machine. Knocking a steel rod down the exhaust centres helped it sound two strokish at 7000rpm plus, but still not like a twin or triple. All Hail the two stroke...

Originally Posted by XR500

I too miss the sound of my Suzi GT500 ram air with aftermarket expansion chambers...my Olds could hear me coming home from about 2km away

Brings back memories. Had a 500 twin at uni and my engineer flatmate used to design and make expansion chambers from scratch. The ones he was doing for the Titan had only reached the stage where the megas were done and I couldn't resist whacking them on and having a ride. Talk about LOUD. As for performance, the power band was super narrow but when she came on song, it'd lift the front wheel with no persuasion. Anyone who has every owned a Titan knows this is impossible normally as the very long wheelbase made wheelies very difficult. Anyway, the noise level pissed off a few people down the street and Mr Copper made a little visit..

Originally Posted by 6x47

Brings back memories. Had a 500 twin at uni and my engineer flatmate used to design and make expansion chambers from scratch. The ones he was doing for the Titan had only reached the stage where the megas were done and I couldn't resist whacking them on and having a ride. Talk about LOUD. As for performance, the power band was super narrow but when she came on song, it'd lift the front wheel with no persuasion. Anyone who has every owned a Titan knows this is impossible normally as the very long wheelbase made wheelies very difficult. Anyway, the noise level pissed off a few people down the street and Mr Copper made a little visit..

Long wheel base alright. I only ever saw 180kmh on mine, sandwiches would blow clean of the tank mounted sandwich holder...

Out with the old
In with the new

After surviving a terrifying experience with a vacuum operated cruise control fitted to a XJ6 Jaguar back in the mid 70's, I'm a confirmed coward when it comes to cruise control. The imprecise carb action on my 70's Harley is bad enough without any form of automatic throttle action.

Originally Posted by outlander

After surviving a terrifying experience with a vacuum operated cruise control fitted to a XJ6 Jaguar back in the mid 70's, I'm a confirmed coward when it comes to cruise control. The imprecise carb action on my 70's Harley is bad enough without any form of automatic throttle action.

I got the factory fitted cruise retro fitted on my 2018 Fat Bob, I just could not get an even ride without it, I had throttle creep all over the place. The cruise fixed that and I missed it when riding the Africa Twin so started looking for a solution.

Yep, but she was a tripple, hence the juice flowing sound

Actually a bit of 2 smoke goodness in my garage right now, along with it’s more recent cuzzy…

One of my favourite road bikes, one I should have kept. my 996 Matrix Edition, the carbon cans were outstanding for setting off car alarms, especially if you did laps in an underground car park .....

This one is a bit special, it's an 853, 916 top end, 748 bottom end, so much fun to pedal hard!

Another one I should have kept...

Quite like the Ducatis but just can’t fit on them. Saw an MH900e a few years back, the bike you could only order online from Jan 2000. Guy pulled in to my local servo while I was filling the Landy. Stunning bike and super sound.