Gas station closed …
But a beautiful morning at Hesnæs harbor.
May 2013
April 2013
Programming the LC-1 wideband sensor.
It’ easy and straight forward, but hard to find a PC with a serial port these days. A cheap USB to Serial adapter did the trick.
Wiring the wide band O2 Sensor
The Innovate LC-1 wideband sensor is fully programable and a very nice kit, but hooking up the wires is an extensive job if you want to do it right.
Wide band O2 sensor experiments
Why ?
Well – I got an idea and I’m curious and confident enough to try it out 🙂
August 2012
Adjusting the rear brake lever
The hard aftermarket foot pegs are slightly lower than the original rubber pegs, so I was never really happy with the brake lever position after I installed the new foot pegs.
The brake lever position is not adjustable on the F800 because the lever just hits a fixed stop (that is also the brake light switch) when you release it.
But I managed to move the brake lever position anyway by fixing a small stainless steel block to the brake lever with 10 second glue and a zip-tie.
Only thing left was to adjust the clearance at the pushrod on the master cylinder.
New tires
Bridgestone BT023 again.
New tires are always like getting a new bike. Steering and cornering are suddenly amazing.
May 2012
Contour GPS action camera
Very good quality and easy to operate while riding.
Installed in 30 seconds with the optional rubber strap.
April 2012
Just passed the test for “Advanced Idiot”
Ran out of gas on the highway, 4km from the gas station.
But a pair of friendly bikers quickly stopped and went for a bottle of fuel.
Thank you guys 🙂
March 2012
Had the bike on the Dyno today….
The local bike shop had the traditional spring event to celebrate the start of the season today.
Part of the event was a Dyno contest to see who had the strongest bike.
Even with my level of self confidence, I knew that I was not going to beat R1’s or Hayabusa’s with the F800S
, but I thought it would be interesting to see how my bike was doing.
Officially, the F800 is 85 hp, but most magazine tests shows a little more power. So if the stock bike is around 90 hp, you will expect around 80 hp on the rear wheel due to transmission loss.
My F800 is equipped with a Remus Hexacone exhaust and (obviously) a BoosterPlug, so I was interested in seeing how my bike was doing with these mods.
As you can see from the chart below the F800 had above 87 rear wheel hp. Calculating backwards, this means that I have between 95 and 100 hp on the crankshaft. 
That’s obviously a very good result and exceeding my expectations, but I’m actually more impressed by the very linear power curve. The 4000-5000 rpm dip you see on other F800’s are (almost) not there.
On other bikes, you will often see the max power 500-1000 rpm before the red line RPM, but the F800 was gaining power all the way up to the rev limit.
