MY XS11 Special Test Ride

[Cooper]

Certainly a good result from almost zero vibration nice looking roads Coops

[Eveready1100]

Yes, Paul. It's great. Pity is, that's all there is of it till you travel about 200k's to the sunshine coast hinterland to get any more like that.

[Jonesy]

looks like some excellent road to play on

[Eveready1100]

Was going to edit these figures in to the original post but realised anyone who's already read it will miss these.

For the record, spotted my IR temperature gun sitting on my newly tidied bench when I got home so I grabbed it and had a bit of target practice on the bike.

Temps are: Rear tyre = 53 degrees C
                 Front tyre =39 deg
                 Motor (at the base of head) = 92 deg
                 Gearbox = 76 deg
                 Middle drive box = 78 deg
                 Final drive = 55 deg
                 Front discs = 41 deg
                 Rear disc = 49 deg
                 Oil temp at time of stopping was 80-85 degrees (according to the guage)

These were taken about 4-5 minutes after I pulled up  with the air temp around 25 degrees

Stupid me forgot to do the header pipes. Next time, eh?

[Eveready1100]

I hadn't had a chance to test out the rig since fitting the longer shocks to the back of the bike, so I got the opportunity to get out to my favourite set of twisties to see if raising the back of the bike would upset its handling when pressed.
I also got to try out this little number........


 ^ An Oregon Scientific ATC2k sport camera that I'd picked up some time ago, but never have had the time to muck around with it

Here's a sample of footage taken with the camera mounted on the helmet - CLICK
As you can see, it has a very narrow lens angle which is why you can't see most of what's going on.
As you can hear, sound is abysmal, but I have since found via the net, how to modify the microphone to get better quality. It's because the camera is totally waterproof and has a rubber membrane covering the mike. Removal of it is supposed to be simple and I'll get back to you with the results.
Also, due to the fact that there is no viewing screen on the camera, I had to wait till I got it back home and on the computer to be disappointed with the result.
Also, there are sections of the vid that look like I'm doing a bit of a head shake thing. It's just the dinky rubber mounting strap letting the camera shake against my helmet.

Next up, I went back out with the camera mounted on a pipe strapped to my rack to see if it would settle the image shaking down a bit, and to see if the sound was any better closer to the exhausts.
Take 1 - CLICK
Result = Better image but the sound is still hopeless, hopefully the mods will fix this when I get to it.

Take 2 - CLICK
Result = Somehow got a new noise. Must be interference from the ignition unit or something. Plus I'll have to mount it a bit lower / wider out, or have my arm amputated to get a better view. Oh well, it'll give me something else to play around with when I get the time, if I get the time.

Oh, yeah. The bike handled great with the trailer on despite the towball height being raised about 2 inches from where it was originally, despite my concern about upsetting the linear forces etc, so all is good.