Lucky Phil

Either you have faulty test leads or the TPS's are slipping on the shaft. Hows the shaft engagement on the TPS. If you remove the TPS and rotate the throttle does the shaft section that goes into the TPS rotate? Unlikely to be a broken shaft. From what your figures are showing you have no TPS rotation OR no real voltage to the TPS. What is the voltage between the 5 volt supply from the ecu and ground? Just for clarity 381MV's is 0.381 Volts. All you are doing is changing the resolution on the multimetre. Ciao

Yes thats true, but it's a pretty low bar. The Ohlins design for the V11 Sport/Le mans has been around for 35 years, since the mid 1980's. I had one on my old 851 Ducati. You buy a new shock now and you get maybe not the latest technology but a hell of a lot later then that. The Wilbers on mine was built to suit my needs hence I needed to wait about 6 weeks to get it. There are other options out there now though. Penske make a nice shock as well. Ciao

Yes and here's one of them, Wilbers alloy body 3 way adjustable damping with remote reservoir and preload adjuster made to my weight and riding style. I dont understand peoples obsession with Ohlins oem spec suspension. There are way better options available at less cost. reminds me of Ducati owners that wont use any other exhaust system than Termignoni exhausts which compared to Akrapovich are complete rubbish. The power of marketing. Wilbers. Remote reservoir with high and low speed compression damping ( blue and red adjusters) and the red spring pre load adjuster knob above. Ciao

So if you slide the throttle body to airbox coupling back into the airbox and look down the throttle body inlet and turn the throttle full open is the throttle blade going to the wide open position? ( you may need to use a mirror) It wont go totally 90 degrees because the blade only goes 87 degrees for full open but it will look pretty much just the edge of the blade pointing back at you. Ciao

Ok, all information that should have been revealed from the start. Some people don't use a cable adaptor but spike the wires. So we have one bike with what now appears to be 5 TPS sensors all of which could have been fitted at some time in the past. Is this right? Ciao

Here's one for those people that say I never do anything. Me pushing our rider off again after a pit stop in the Senior race. John Williams is putting the re-fuelling gear back and the two guys in the red black and yellow are the marshals that give the bike a look over during the pit stop and make sure there are no mechanical issue. If there is they wont let you leave the pits until it's rectified. I didn't like the re-fuelling job just in case I gave the rider a crutch full of fuel. I stuck to the clean the screen and/or change the visor and give the bike a look over. We didn't need a tyre change. And here he is under the paint flat out past the pits lining it up for the run down Bray hill at probably 160 mph on a flying lap. Not a great image behind the fuelling churns. My memory of all the riders going past here wide open a meter away flat on the tank looking through the fly spattered screen is one I'll never forget. Imagine the commitment of pointing the bike down Bray hill between the curbs flat out, needing the line to be near perfect, especially the boys on the big factory bikes. Like threading the needle at 180 mph plus with the consequences of getting it wrong not bearing thinking about. Respect. MotoGP riders, not quite in the same league. Ciao

No docc around 4.9-5.0 volts not 490-500MV. The reference voltage is 5V and full travel one way ( towards throttle closed) will be zeroish and fully the other way ( WOT) will be around zero resistance so 5 volts/ish. Ciao

Great illustrator docc, I'm so envious of people with artistic talent as i have none. I'm a very harsh marker of motorcycle books I'm afraid. Any technical mistake and it's dead to me. No point telling an historical story with the factual errors. Same as it's pointless reading Biography's of world leaders until all the official documents have been released after 50 years. Read recently a Bio on Churchill and was reminded of this. I'm currently being educated on WW2 fighter aircraft which I had a passion for as a boy. Now with the internet I'm actually learning a lot of actual facts about them and WW2 that just wasn't available at that time. Changes things quite a bit in reality. Ciao

Sounds to me like you may be checking the wrong TPS wires. I believe WOT that gives zero voltage is because you are checking the voltage between the 5v input and the earth instead of the variable output and the earth. So at idle you will have your 330mv and as you open the throttle the voltage will decrease instead of increase. If this is happening you are checking the wrong wires. If that's not the issue then you have a bum TPS. I don't have a wiring diagram for the EV11 but the wiring colours are different between the earlier and later v11's and with the earlier PF09 TPS my bike uses the sensor or output wire isn't the centre pin as it is with the PF03 TPS's. Ciao

If it were mine John I'd make a mould of the upper fairing and then abbreviate and style it to blend in to expose the engine then make a new version. You might need to fabricate some additional brackets. I'd then store the original fairing. Ciao

Fausto Gresini has just succumbed from Covid. Ciao

Me to. Ciao

No, there're better. Ciao

Not applicable to bikes with the floating bevel box, aka V11 and Daytona, Centauro, Sport 1100 etc. Ciao

Good info John, but one important data point missing. Oil viscosity and type? Full synthetic or semi synth? Grade? BTW I'd leave the belly pan off myself. Looks good and will cool better. Confirm this is with the 1100 Sport PRV without the spacer? Ciao

Look at my thread on "porosity" John. The 2 fwd and aft side rocker cover screws are inside the cover oring line and so subject to oil in the head and can the supposed blind holes can sometimes be over drilled from the factory so oil migrates down the threads and finds its way out to the external surface. The cam carrier assemblies on the heads are also prone to porosity and they weep there as well. Ciao

What precisely does "full of water" mean? Ciao

You can dump the return anywhere you like but you must use the the regulator. The pump output is above reg pressure and the reg controls the line pressure. Whats the oil leak like John? Big, weep, dripping? Ciao

I have a fully speced Wilbers. Better than Ohlins. Ciao

I just looked up the latest stats. 511,113 Americans have succumbed to the virus to date. Seems some breeze through it barely noticing they have it and others get nailed well and truly. Frome what I can see it's about how each individuals immune system responds to the virus. Some's immune system just goes crazy and causes big issues for them and then there's the people with underlying issues that the virus magnifies. Pauldaytona has had it and was close to death but has recovered to a large extent but not entirely yet after 8 or 9 months. I've been in a full lockdown 3 times now for various time frames, not much fun but in the grand scheme of things from an historical perspective it's a very minor inconvenience. Ciao

Check out these Germans on the Nurburgring. Scroll down in the video's section to "One green hell, please". Note these are road bikes and they know their way around. I rode the ring back in 1984 on a touring BMW and that was interesting enough. https://www.gaskrank.tv/rennstrecken/nuerburgring-nordschleife/ Ciao

You need to check the TPS reading at full throttle. It should read around 4.7- 4.9 volts. If its not then combined with the stop voltage issue you have a TPS problem. If its reading low at WOT then the engine will be lean at full throttle and things will also not be good low down either. So basically you have the r/h throttle blade disconnected from the left, the r/h idle stop screw if fitted wound out, the fast idle lever fully clear of the r/h throttle mechanism and the r/h throttle blade fully closed ( I usually tie it back gently with a cable tie so it stays fully closed against the throttle body bore and doesnt move with the TPS) You have all this and you can't achieve 157mv's is this correct? How many miles on the bike? Ciao