you need to reduce the power you're asking the engine with your right hand when you launch. a 450cc thumper motard is one thing, an 1199 is a lot more power. It's probably killing power because you've pushed the DTC to it's absolute limit, and it's decided that the only way to save you from flipping over is to completely kill the power.
The bike will wheelie nuts before the TC kicks in. That's what happened with my first few starts. You'll best control the speed of how fast you release the clutch to ensure it doesn't buck around and get a great start.
If the traction control is kicking in you're launching too hard, period. I run the TC on 2, have never felt it intervene and can run a 10 second 1/4 mile pass in my sleep launching from 3000RPM.
Its a 200hp superbike not a 60hp motard, you cant rev it to the moon when you launch it and doing so isn't going to get you the holeshot.
I appreciate the tips, but I'm not sure how you guys are assuming that I'm rev'ing it to the moon and twelve o'clocking it, I've said that's not the case...but you don't have to take my word for it.
Unfortunately, I don't have a good video of a "typical" launch, but the beginning of this one is fairly typical (DTC set to 2) of my rev's, throttle, and clutch action, but I almost rear-end the guy in front of me, have to cut right, then roll back on - which sets off DTC, not super intrusively if I recall, but you can see the light come on..and I think the front is no more than 6 inches off the ground - probably much less than that.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws1yvv8wiurg7nm/LRRS R5 2015 Amateur Unlimited GP Launch.mp4?dl=0
You can speculate on how fast it "looks" like the front is coming up, but frankly I think it's hard to judge on the video. I remember feeling it come up, and adjusting my throttle/clutch inputs when the DTC slammed the front to the ground.
I'm open to any tips on anything I'm doing wrong there.
Now, on my typical launch, sometimes DTC kicks in, sometimes it doesn't. I feel like it must have more to do with something like whether the front lifts up immediately or after rolling a foot or two. When it really bothers me is when the front comes down and there's about a half second delay before the power kicks back in again. I've had times I've passed one row of competitors and been gaining on the next one when that little orange light comes on and throws my weight up against the tank - then gaining on them turns into losing on them...
It looks like most guys that responded have 1299's or very late model R's...remember that I have "old outdated" 2012 technology
If you have separate wheelie control, you probably have an electronic gyroscope, and the ducati engineers probably thought about the fact that people might want to launch, or pull sweet wheelies, and that the front wheel wasn't going to turn when its in the air.
OEM traction control is getting better and better, back from the days of the 1198 that would pop because only ignition was getting cut...to today...I think I heard the R1 has yaw control incorporated in its traction control?
If you guys watch the video and think I'm ham-fisting the thing, say so, but if the answer is that I have to try to intentionally roll the front a foot or two before I let it come up, then its a bummer, but one I can live with - a give and take by having to adapt my riding style for an otherwise completely in-control launch for the safety of having traction control on the rest of the track.
My +/- switches are set to control DWC (wheelie control) on the fly. I basically go between 2 and 4.
I wish I had the +/- switches, I might feel OK just turning the DTC off, but push button / switch mode / close throttle is just a little too much when I'm entering NHMS' T1 at 85-95MPH with a ton of bikes around me. Then 1a and T2 comes up quick (2nd highest danger zone for highside at Loudon), then T3/4 is just plain high-side city (Off-camber, cresting a hill while leaned over and on the throttle for the 2nd longest straight on the track).
I know some aftermarket traction control systems can be adjusted gear-by-gear, I'm probably not going to spring for one of those, but is that something they can adjust in a re-flash of the ECU and/or DTC module? I don't know of any track I'd need 1st gear on outside of the launch especially once I throw a 14t sprocket on the front, so if I can selectively turn off DTC in 1st gear maybe it would be worth looking into....
