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Wanted to share story on SLR tuning.
Purchased hand held from their website.
Followed instructions to download BASE map from bike to handheld.
Followed instructions to download from handheld to PC, then sent to SLR tuning.
The very next day had Race Map ready email, connected handheld to PC, downloaded map to Handheld, downloaded into BIKE.
First RACE map was very very aggressive, bike was fully unrestricted. My gearing was 14/39 (-1/0 change from stock), and the bike would wheelie in 1-3rd gear with just about a 5-10% input from throttle hand. Was very very difficult to hold steady or maintenance throttle in turns, bike wanted to either accelerate like a bat out of hell, or slow down.
Contacted Frank at SLR, gave my feedback and the next day had alternate map2. Downloaded into bike and it was way to far the other direction, felt like WET mode. Contacted Frank, gave feedback, and with in a day had alternate map3 delivered.
Downloaded into bike and tested, was better than #2, but still very close to stock. Talked with Frank again and was told over a hundred customers had received the RACE map without complaint. Based on that feedback we started brainstorming together what was different about my bike? The gearing was obvious, -1 on front sprocket is prolly to extreme for fully unrestricted bike.
Put stock gearing back on bike 15/39 and spent 1000miles re-learning how to drive the damn thing smooth back on the first RACE map. Stock gearing made this possible, I was able to control wheelies via smooth throttle inputs, but after several hours of riding I was just exhausted from all the work. On my normal routes, once fatigued, I could not hold speed steady in fast 100-130mph sweepers, bike still wanted to either be accelerating or slowing down.
Contacted Frank again this week, gave my feedback and within a day had map #4 delivered, this was about 10% reduction in TPS settings from the first RACE map #1.
This was the ticket, the bike still feels mostly unrestricted from about 7K RPM upwards, and feels manageable from idle onwards, no more po-go-stick front end when just leaving from a dead stop!
So the tunes were not Plug and Play for me, but Frank was ALWAYS available and willing to help, ALWAYS responded to email and phone and was a pleasure to work with throughout the entire process.
I would 100% recommend SLR to anyone seeking an unrestricted bike, and fix to horrible low RPM fueling. Also, my bike was dying randomly at low RPM like plagued so many others on this site. I can leave a stop now using only clutch and no throttle and will roll right out with zero stalls!
Sorry a little wordy, but wanted to tell the whole story and let everyone know that through it all Frank was there helping out whenever i needed him.
JAG
Purchased hand held from their website.
Followed instructions to download BASE map from bike to handheld.
Followed instructions to download from handheld to PC, then sent to SLR tuning.
The very next day had Race Map ready email, connected handheld to PC, downloaded map to Handheld, downloaded into BIKE.
First RACE map was very very aggressive, bike was fully unrestricted. My gearing was 14/39 (-1/0 change from stock), and the bike would wheelie in 1-3rd gear with just about a 5-10% input from throttle hand. Was very very difficult to hold steady or maintenance throttle in turns, bike wanted to either accelerate like a bat out of hell, or slow down.
Contacted Frank at SLR, gave my feedback and the next day had alternate map2. Downloaded into bike and it was way to far the other direction, felt like WET mode. Contacted Frank, gave feedback, and with in a day had alternate map3 delivered.
Downloaded into bike and tested, was better than #2, but still very close to stock. Talked with Frank again and was told over a hundred customers had received the RACE map without complaint. Based on that feedback we started brainstorming together what was different about my bike? The gearing was obvious, -1 on front sprocket is prolly to extreme for fully unrestricted bike.
Put stock gearing back on bike 15/39 and spent 1000miles re-learning how to drive the damn thing smooth back on the first RACE map. Stock gearing made this possible, I was able to control wheelies via smooth throttle inputs, but after several hours of riding I was just exhausted from all the work. On my normal routes, once fatigued, I could not hold speed steady in fast 100-130mph sweepers, bike still wanted to either be accelerating or slowing down.
Contacted Frank again this week, gave my feedback and within a day had map #4 delivered, this was about 10% reduction in TPS settings from the first RACE map #1.
This was the ticket, the bike still feels mostly unrestricted from about 7K RPM upwards, and feels manageable from idle onwards, no more po-go-stick front end when just leaving from a dead stop!
So the tunes were not Plug and Play for me, but Frank was ALWAYS available and willing to help, ALWAYS responded to email and phone and was a pleasure to work with throughout the entire process.
I would 100% recommend SLR to anyone seeking an unrestricted bike, and fix to horrible low RPM fueling. Also, my bike was dying randomly at low RPM like plagued so many others on this site. I can leave a stop now using only clutch and no throttle and will roll right out with zero stalls!
Sorry a little wordy, but wanted to tell the whole story and let everyone know that through it all Frank was there helping out whenever i needed him.
JAG
