What have you done with your bike today?

[TLPower]

My mediaeval/stone-age 1190 has only "lost" it's service schedule once when I disconnected the battery for any length of time. It's fairly straight forward to re-set if it does lose it. Undoing a nut at a time and keeping the cables attached to the posts to fit a connector didn't result in any loss.

Or use crocodile clips.

[kwackboy]

What TL said ...

Just to add, I may be wrong but over a long period,  it's possible the self learning may also reset, Nothing to worry about though.   

[endintears]

Just a thought.
Evidence the  battery has been disconnected
[by yourself] might affect any warranty you may still have on the bike.

[Asmith61]

Thank you for your replies

TLPower, kwackboy , & endintears

I have the adaptor with the crocodile clips so that’s what I will use just in case 

[endintears]

Managed to get out for about an hour and a half.
Hope valley to Hathersage then turned towards Grindelford and on to Calver crossroads.
The view along the Derwent and across to Froggatt Edge at this time of the year is particularly good IMO as it's unobstructed by the leaves on the trees at the side of the road.
Headed back home via Stoney Middleton and past the Yonderman.
Timed it to perfection for a change as I got back with the bike still clean and dry about ten minutes before it started raining. 

[Asmith61]

Fitted the Oxford oximiser this morning I decided to fit it in the end and I made sure to keep the fittings attached to the battery, I have checked the onboard computer and it seems to be fine 🤞

[TLPower]

Another little job for you Alby,

[Asmith61]

Hi Jonathan thank you for that 

What does the canister do ?
And what is the benefit apart from the obvious space gain for tool kit etc ?

[TLPower]

It is an emissions control device that is connected to one of the fuel tank breather outlets. I believe it was to comply with California state law but is fitted to all Adventures. Only advantage is to gain underseat space for the (comprehensive)KTM toolkit.

[Asmith61]

OK thank you I will have a look at that 

[Brockett]

But don't throw it away.  If the anti tampering laws (maybe real and maybe not) are enacted, then all that "junk" may have to be refitted.

[Asmith61]

Hi Brockett
Thank you for your input  no I won’t throw it away as you say it might have to be refitted at some point 

[Brockett]

The "proposal" for new regs which was put out for consultation in the autumn, if adopted, would be retrospective. This would require all vehicles that were modified to remove items designed to protect the environment to be refitted and for work-around installations be removed.
Louder exhausts, catalytic converters, modified ECUs, Booster plugs etc. and that charcoal evaporation cannister .....     These are all in the frame following the VW emissions fiasco. None of this might happen, but there are good environmental reasons why they could well become law.

[Mr Nick]

As long as the law also compels manufacturers to make available all spares for all models for the period they would apply the retrospection over, and that the price reflects the material cost only as the development costs were recouped during the initial manufacturing period. How else are owners to comply where a long replaced original part no longer exists?

Yeah, like that'll happen...

[Rixington43]

I'm hopeful that this will follow the standard approach to 'political negotiation'.
Propose the utterly unreasonable in the hope that they can make what they actually want to achieve look like they're doing everyone a favour ;)

[2112]

How else are owners to comply where a long replaced original part no longer exists?

it's a good point and the car world is full of 'pattern' parts and 'original equipment quality' parts. Lets face it no one replaces a car exhaust with an original manufacturer one do they ? It's a cheapie from Kwik fit or Halfords and off you go. A BSI marked exhaust should be treat in exactly the same way for example as a direct replacement.

[Mr Nick]

I've been tinkering with the brakes on the Spada 3 again. I was having issues getting any rear brake activity and I'd kind of given up on it for a while as I didn't seem to be getting anywhere and came to the conclusion that either the master cylinder or the proportioning valve were kaput, and neither were available at the time: the master cylinder is at least still made, but not the valve.
Last week, I managed to track down a master cylinder in Germany and it arrived the other day, so tonight I fired up the garage heater & set about swapping them over. I've spent a while now trying to bleed the system and it's just not playing the game. I'm using my big vacuum bleeder which works on compressed air and I'm not getting the volume of fluid coming through that I'm expecting, so I'm now thinking the proportioning valve is the issue after all. This leaves me with a bit of a dilemma: do I continue trying to keep the linked brakes or ditch that & convert it to conventional.
To keep the linked brakes, I'd have to either replace the valve with a 3 way t-piece, or see if I can disassemble the valve & fix what's wrong with it. The V50 doesn't have any form of proportioning valve in it's linked brakes, so I'm fairly OK just doing away with it if it comes to it.
I don't know what I'm going to find inside the valve, or how it would come apart to that matter, and there's no rebuild kit. I'm thinking that there will be a piston and springs the fluid pressure will work against to restrict the amount going to the rear as you increase the pressure.
Before I set about stripping it though, I've bought a cheap 3 way block I'll stick in its place to see if I can get any better bleed activity and I'll blow out all the lines as well in case there's a blockage somehow.

Converting the whole system to a conventional layout would only take 2 new braided lines as I think it's the 13mm piston in the front master cylinder so should be big enough to feed both calipers.

I'm reluctant to convert the brakes as I'm probably looking to move this bike on this year and I'd prefer it to be original, but original & not working isn't going to cut it.

Let's get the 3 way installed & see if I can get anywhere & take it from there.

[2112]

Best of luck with your bleeding brakes ! It's a pain but a 'conventional' system will be less hassle in the long run. I converted a VFR800 to 'normal' operation by removing the Honda gubbins and running two brake lines to each caliper. It was a much better bike because of it and one of my friends did the same with his Blackbird and reported a similar improvement. Mind you I had a Varadero 1000 and the linked system worked superb on that bike but felt horrible and intrusive on the VFR ?

I've had a V50 Monza and Le Mans 3 with the linked brakes and never really felt 100% with them, particularly on the Le Mans.

[Mr Nick]

I've got them working pretty well on my V50 and I find it a decent enough system, but I can live without it equally happily. I'm going with the easiest route first which is just to swap the valve for the t-piece - nothing else is affected that way.

[kwackboy]

I once spoke out against linked brakes and abs (I'm not a fan) on another platform.

Geez ...!!  I was shouted down and abused big time