Launch Control - how to use?

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I have never used the launch control, but I'd like to try it out. I do know how access and set it up, but I have questions on actually using it.

Do you slowly release the clutch to manage power, or do you literally just throw the lever?
 
Manual says full throttle and slowly release the lever.
It's not a drag bike, do not dump the clutch unless you want to see the sky ground movie

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I presumed the bike would flip over if I just threw the lever...logic wouldn't allow me to think otherwise. I just wanted to hear from anyone who has used it
 
From what I've seen they feather the clutch pretty sure the V4's have a slipper clutch in them.
But yeah dump the clutch with 10grand on the tacho the bike would just leap from under you go skyward and do the best to wreck itself big $'s.
Me I'll just put DWC to 7 DTC to grip and trust my experience launching the animal.
I once stared at the fuel cap on my VF1000R dumping the clutch in a friendly drag my friend next to me p*ssed himself laughing watching my feet trying to keep up.
It came down so hard it pushed the forks 4mm through the triple clamps and it had anti slide forks the tube below the clamps was a bigger diameter was a close squeek..
 
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Mentioned on another forum I think. There's a few videos on YouTube and one of them on a drag strip the guy is actually doing better manually than using the electronics.
 
I did much better manually on the drag strip than with the launch control. If you dump the clutch too fast, the bike will just stall out. My 2 cents.
 
I can't even pretend like I know how to launch the bike with the launch control. I thought it was something that I was doing wrong. Launch it much better manually.
 
I went for a Sunday ride a couple of months ago and found a quiet straight bit of road out in the bush and thought I would give it a go. Well after 2 attempts and a look at the sky and change of underwear I thought I would leave the third attempt for another day after being given clear instruction from someone who has personally used it successfully. It must work or the racers wouldn't use it when fighting for the first turn.
Keen to hear the facts from someone in the know


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ive tried it a few times and not going to lie its really hard on this bike, i had a 2017 R1 previously and the launch control on that was way easier to use successfully. so far ive tried level 1,2 and ive only got it to work once the other times the bike stalled out. but you def need to feather the clutch out DO NOT JUST DROP THE CLUTCH!!!! lol it seems to still be active even if you are below the point of the screen turning red and saying ready for launch
 
For clarity, I still have to shift through the gears, correct? I truly don't know what to expect the first time...
 
Swflduc said:
For clarity, I still have to shift through the gears, correct? I truly don't know what to expect the first time...
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:D
It doesn't change your bike in an automatic :D

It is just to get you started, when you're "launched", you're on your own
 
I've only had the bike for a week, but I'm struggling to get this thing off the lights quickly. The first time I tried, the front wheel launched about a foot in the air in the blink of an eye (DWC on 4), bogged down, and then let me take-off once everything had settled. I've since put DWC on 5, but this morning, bunny-hopped down the road while a mini-bus over took me at the lights lol! I'm still in the break in period, so I'm not wrigging it's neck (trying this at 5, maybe 6k revs).

With my zx10, i just brought it up to about 7k revs and let the clutch out in less than a second, rolled on, and took off with the wheel about 1/2 a foot off the ground.

I'm hoping it's just a get used to it thing.
 
Not meaning to be condescending, but why bother with launch control if you’re only bringing the bike up to 7k?

Launch control is designed to work with the throttle fully open. Pretty sure the dash tells you to pin the throttle once you have enabled launch control. I don’t think that it even works under a certain RPM
 
burton said:
Not meaning to be condescending, but why bother with launch control if you're only bringing the bike up to 7k?

Launch control is designed to work with the throttle fully open. Pretty sure the dash tells you to pin the throttle once you have enabled launch control. I don't think that it even works under a certain RPM
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Or with a latte in your left hand!!!!
Isn't launch control for the track?
Imagine launch control at Starbucks, shuck and jive, buck and weave and scuffed Capezio's:eek::eek::eek:
 

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