Race/Sport/Wet Modes

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Guys, I picked up my Pani S about a month ago but because of work commitments I havent explored the bike modes. Only yesterday I had the chance to muck around with the ride modes. My dealer set it to Race mode at delivery and it was just so rough at slow speeds but when I played around with the modes and went to Sport, it is so comfortable to ride around town. Still can b annoying at low speeds but I'm just impressed with the ride changes!

Race mode in suburban areas is just so Raw with power! Anyone else feel the same?
 
Mine stays in sport 195hi setting all the time.

I've actually only ridden it a couple times in the race mode.
 
I have modified my sport for commute riding, 195lo, EBC3 and traction control and ABS on full sensitivity. I have modified my race for mountain agressive riding moving to 195hi, still keeping EBC at 2 (I like a smoother ride) and still ABS and traction control at full sensitivity. I bought the bike for effective traction control and ABS on not so certain roads and can only see lowering those for track use. And I jacked up the softness of the forks and shocks compression and rebound, gradually getting stiffer from wet to sport to race. Mess around with the EBC as it drastically changes the ride. (And I still can't believe I can change engine braking and shocks on the fly, unreal) I will have to modify if I track it, but that's easy enough to do.
 
zvez said:
Mine stays in sport 195hi setting all the time.

I've actually only ridden it a couple times in the race mode.
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Same here. Race Mode is sensitive from light to light. I prefer the Sport Mode set to 195Hi myself. Much smoother for city riding.
 
Typically so sport, which is 195lo.
Race at 195high is just way to snappy for the street.
Sport usually, but wet for a softer ride down melbourne
Roads with tram lines....
 
I ride around town on wet mode. On highways if conditions permit I go sport. Haven't used race mode at all. Not out of fear but out of respect so to speak. I know myself and what I can handle but race mode just seems to me to be better suited for the pros.
 
I have EBC and ABS set to 3 on all modes. DTC at 8 on Wet, 5 on Sport and Race. Not planning on any slides or stoppies, so why not use the electronics. Even on street, the DTC light kicks in pretty often, 5 is good to keep myself on check.

Power is standard 120 wet, 195 lo sport, 195 hi race. 195 hi is good if you stay within the power band all the time, like on a track. Otherwise, I feel the power is a little bit unpredictable.
 
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R36 said:
I figured that there would be a post but our "Search" function should be changed to "Can't find"!


Haven't got to the stage of set ups modes but just so much to learn coming from a RiceBurner (CBR 1000RR).:)
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I searched for riding mode, and what do you know, 3rd option down (would have been 2nd if this thread didn't exist.)

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Looks pretty broken to me. :rolleyes:
 
knutts said:
Same here. Race Mode is sensitive from light to light. I prefer the Sport Mode set to 195Hi myself. Much smoother for city riding.
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I ride 50% in the city on my commute, I've found this to be the opposite, race mode is much nicer and more predictable than sport. BUT, in my 15 years of riding Ducs, no single bike is the same... as much as DNA wants us to think so.
 
Mine's a base so no DES involvement, but if I'm heading for the hills right out of the garage then I have it in race mode, which I have preset with the street display, throttle on 195HI, DTC on 1, EBC on 1 and DQS on. If I'm going to be cruising for a bit, say some highway miles and sightseeing then I'll use Sport (195LO, DTC3, EBC1, DQS on). Spent maybe 10 miles in rain mode when I first got the bike last summer, and not since.

Before the new map was released, I almost never used 195LO, but it's much more useable now and it does make steady-state cruising easier. All the HI and LO do on the power is affect the linearity of the throttle response, and I expect all the 120HP setting does is not give you WOT. I'd like some more tweakability of the throttle myself, with a little shorter turn and a bit of progressivity dialed in to keep it from being too abrupt in on/off transitions.

Rode my Daytona this weekend and was instantly reminded how different the ride-by-wire feels from a standard cable-to-throttle body setup!
 
I've been riding my R on sport mode since I got it 2 weeks ago just to get the feel of it, I'm a pretty aggressive rider and I've been riding solo so there hasn't been any reason to switch to 195hi... Only changed the ebc to 3, TC to 4 (trying to wheelie) and my steering dampener to 10 clicks clockwise. Steering felt a little loose at 100mph on turns.

P.S. 1-2nd gear on the street, 3-4th on the freeway (burns gas like my Grand National tho) didn't spend 33k to ride like a bit*h:D
 
Just rode all the Way to Assen and back (1000 miles) in Sport 195Lo. And for the motorway miles we did it was a lot smoother and less aggressive feeling. Made the ride much less tiring but still allowed me to make "rigorous" progress.
 
I leave it in sport too, figured I would use wet for the occasions I want to commute it to SF (from Santa Cruz) and end up in traffic. So I ended up in some really bad traffic last week and was lane splitting for 30-40 minute (awful). I left it in sport mode and although it got pretty hot it rode great.
-j
 
I truthfully did not notice much difference between the two modes. I have a BMW 1600 that also has the three modes. The difference between "Dynamic" and "Road" on the BMW is a little more noticeable, but still not a big difference.
 

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