Has anyone tried, and/or have options of slicks on the 1299 / Pani R since they've updated the traction control?
Subscribing out of interest. What are you thinking? For the earlier bikes without tyre setup settings like my 1199s I've seen quite a lot of different forum posts predicting the end of the world without the correct tyres but I'm sure as long as different tyres are ~5% or so the same diameter as oem then it would be hard to notice. As well as that there's this perception that you can be a complete novice and fully ninja the throtte 100% and rely on the electronics to control the bike which I've never actually seen anyone do. p211 tyre setup: file:///C:/Users/uc211882/Downloads/SBK_S_1299_GBR_MY16%20(1).pdf
@royalwithcream I've read the same posts suggesting dire results from using different manufacturers and compound. It's more casual curiosity as I've seen 1299s that have high sided. Presumably the 1199's TC just uses revs, throttle opening and gear against a reference table (maybe adding some pre/post intervention analysis), whereas the 1299's add lean angle in to the equation.
I've not got to the point (size of balls required?) for actually going full throttle and pushing off the TC out of a corner. Someone more skillful than me might say this is possible but I've not learnt to use it like that and would expect to get launched if I got to excited on the throttle whilst cranked over on a fresh set of tyres. I usually spin them up on the outlap when fairly upright to scrub them in a bit on the rare occasion I dont have tyre warmers. Kind of week one day one stuff but I do tend to start off cautious and wait until I get some feel for the grip.
Very wise. One of my first jobs was industrial control systems in the Defence industry. Usually some kind of central computer, reading sensors and then sending signals to actuators to tweak things to keep everything performing within the set parameters. We are talking late 1980's early '90's here. Fast forward to 2016 and we now have those systems in bikes. There's lots said about whacking open the throttle and letting the TC do the rest. A word of caution - I used to calculate something called an MTBF figure for our systems, including sensors - Mean Time Between Failure!!!!
