Jetsetter

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A very good thread to read ,, glad it was here to read ,, helped me out a bit ,, thanks all.

Honda's security system used on Euro (and Oz/UK) bikes. Bugger !! think i just found out that the US models didn't have HISS .

Hi Guys , Am looking at trying to locate a particular wire on my bike , white with a red stripe. looks like the only place it appears on schematics is european bikes to an immobilizer. I notice on the US model bike it doesn't have an immobilizer so am going to guess that the immobilizer has nothing to do with HISS. Can anyone enlighten me please ?

That's correct , I am located in VN. Great memory there Red. I am flatout remembering what day of the week it is. It may be alright , if I can't find a replacement item , I may see if i can find a place to send it to for checking. Either OZ ,UK or the States. If I post it , I may as well post it anywhere. I am still suffering from this clown melting my wiring last year.

21 litres for 240 km ,, lets see ,,divide by ,, add , multiply, carry the 3 ,,, yep ,, 27mpg ,, thats what i get on an average day ,,,gets worse if I give er. 01 FI with a k&N ,, just put a 4-1 on it , don't know yet what difference it makes economy wise ,, but shag my brown dog if it isn't a lot quicker.

As mentioned before , my numbers don't match anything from Honda and am going off the paint code to assume I have an 01 BB. Could have been stolen , could have just been changed to suit existing paperwork. I'd take the latter myself but you never now. If i know the bike is FI , Digital Dash, has the test connector block. I am still gonna go with 2001. So , to order a wiring harness and an ECU can anyone tell me ,, would it make any difference to get anything from 2001 onwards ? From what I have read they should be very much the same. Any advice or ideas ? Also , does anyone know of a place that will send out an ECU with chipped yet blank keys ? If i fit a new ECU i'd have to get keys to suit my ignition wouldn't I ? So obviously blanks would be handy. Thanks,, Will continue using the search function to see ifi can find some useful information.

It's a common problem here with roadside tyre repairers buying nails and screws and seeding the roads in front of them. Their are even people who "rake" the roads at night to get the scrap for steel value. Most it is said sell it to the scrap merchants ,, some however recycle it straight back to the tyre repairers who re-seed the roads. hence I have had a few screws.nails in my tyre. only used the glued plug and although theres not the room to often open it up , i have never had a failure. I know ,, you guys are gonna find that story hard to believe , but their was even a story in the local paper of a guy making this great magnet broom and he would walk the hiway at night and retrieve kilos of the rubbish ,,, what bloody hope have ya got !!!!

Well , had an issue with my fan not coming on , it had a manual switch on it. Rode it up the road to the only mechanic in vietnam who knows big bikes. Pick it up in the afternoon , fan is working , but he has wired it in to so as when the ignition is on ,, the fan is on ,, tried the argument , decided to change it back when i got home. Got a few miles up the road , bike stops,, blown the 20 amp main fuse. Replace with spare , head back to shop ,, blow another, fuse holder melts ,,, Finally get it back to the shop , leave it overnight. Next day bike is fixed , fan still wired in permanently, get home ,, seems no bother but had smelt some burning ,,couldnt find it ,, Small electrical issues continued ,, tacho would stop for no reason ,, FI light would illuminate then off , tacho start working , fan intermittent ,,, have a look around at what the bike shop did and find a 25amp fuse in the main fuse holder. Opinions here please ? It had a 20 amp ,, was obviously shorting somewhere and is replaced with a 25amp. Is it enough to cause my wiring to burn out ? Noticed some burn on the loom covering forward of the huge plug ,, stripped it back and what a mess , from the big (24pin?) plug ,thru the test plug , right thru a lot of wires melted. Didnt strip it all the way back as i wanted to get it back to the shop. took it there some days ago with some questions for them . Today they ring and tell me that $550 Singapore dollars ($380 USD) will get me a new loom as this one is buggered. So tomorrow , back on the ferry for another wasted day to go check the damage ad get to the bottom of why this happened. Strangely , as the mechanic pointed out , wiring on bikes here seems to get chewed a bit by mice. Opinions ?? anyone had major loom problems ?

Hi again , Checked all thru the same things ,, still looks normal and runs the same. I am now convinced it is limited electrically. I do not think its an intake or exhaust blockage given the fact that it pulls strongly all the way to 190kmh and seems like it just cuts out there , yet only cutting enough to hold it there, remember , in any gear which means it isn't limited by revs and is it not one heck of a coincidence that it stops at 190 in 3,4,5 or 6th ? Its not the gearing as it pulls 10,000 RPM in 3rd doing 190 kmh. As for where I am , It's Vietnam and there isn't a heck of a lot of places to go past 190. Seems if you believe in Buddism that you do not have to look when crossing a street or turning into a road as if you get hit and die it wasn't your fault and you are re-born anyway. I could never match the engine numbers on the bike to anything. As for origin , I believe it was illegally brought into here originally. The only thing i can say about origin is the fact it has no head light switch, not sure how common this is . Not game to remove the muffler , I would get done for sure and end up in a prison eating rice soup . Has it ever done more that 190 kmh ??? I thought it had , but thinking back to everytime someone has asked me "what speed were you doing ?" I have always answered either 189,190 or 191. So , it would seem i never have gone above that. The good news is that there is a Dyno up in HCM ,, costs $150 bucks to put the bike on there ,, but they'll do a PC-III with Dyno run for $485 USD. Looks like that is the way I am going to have to go although like everyone , watching the pennys due to being laid off. Thanks for all opinions and helps ,, I am not giving up just yet and will keep tinkering , when i know more i will post it up,, Thanks guys

Thanks everyone for your concern here with my problem ,, will be having another look over things tomorow and should be able to give an update on where I am at thus far ,, Seems everything i have looked at seems fine , but given with the fact that it seems to happen in 3,4,5 and 6th of course all at different revs leads me to think its not intake or exhaust ,, This thing just rapidly gets to 190 kmh and wont go more no matter what gear ,, sometimes 189 sometimes 191 Plugs looked ok , airbox seems to be screwed together properly , filter as it should be , as for the exhaust being blocked , i don't know ,, more checking I do like the idea of taking the mufflers of it though I don't think I'd make it 100 metres without them and when I pretty much have the only real bike in town ,, I am pretty sure Mr Plod would know where to come ,,, Thanks guys , the Investigation continues , and I will keep you informed.

Quad - Good call , but don't have the old filter , it was filthy anyway and i seem to recall this doing it before ,, whenever anyone asked me how fast i was going I'd often say 191 kmh,,, never dawned on me . DOH , I'm not slow ,, it's just the way my mother dresses me !!! Partsman - Pulled out the airbox to make sure everything is as it should be ,,, looks normal down there XX Rider - In fact it made it to 190 kmh in 3rd pulling near on 10k on the tacho. Just didnt seem to want to do anymore than that ,,, left it in 3rd and listened ,, no sounds really,(really only hear wind) dropped a few km changing to 4th , got back to 190kmh again and nothing ,,,tacho read ???? (was too interested in head down near tank listening), but it had heaps of acceleration getting back there,, same with 5th as well ,,,, just gets there and seems to stop , much like hitting an immovable object ,,,,,,possibly electrically break down. AS I say ,, heaps of acceleration in any gear right up to 189-191 are numbers i have seen ,,, doesnt matter what gear either. Para - I reckon your onto something here. I am too chicken to intentionally hit the rev limiter so don't know if its the same affect ,,, although glad i no longer have to keep a "feel" for valve bounce. Having said all the above,, there really isnt anywhere I am likely to need to ride this thing at any greater speed , so aren't really concerned ,, I think I should be looking at a smaller front sprocket perhaps . Never the less , it would be handy to know if in fact it was factory limited ??? Cheers for your help guys.

Well , this took a while but I finally got a fix for my key issue. We now have a real bike shop with a bike mechanic in Vietnam. I took my bike to him for a general check recently and mentioned the necessity of another key. I now have my other chipped key . $100 USD did not include how he did it though. Wont tell me , although I suspect my original key at least went to a Honda dealer in Singapore ,,, So there must be a way of doing this , using only your original key with chip. Anyway ,, I now have the 2nd key and am no longer needing to carry my bike key on a string around my neck .

Searched threads for a similar problem , can't find anything. Had this happen a few times and was never really 100% sure . Noticed the other day that my bike is topping out at 190 kmh ,,, tried this in 4th , 5th and 6th ,, different revs didn't make any difference , just tops out somewhere around 189,190 or 191 ,, never more ,, kmh remember ,, Had just ditched the original filter for a K & N and was amazed at the noticable power difference. Cant really hear anything other than wind noise , certainly no loud bangs . I would have to say it accelerates there ok . I had a CBR 750 Hurricane , they actually had a speed limiter behind the speedo that you had to disconnect ,, I'm bloody sure their is nothing on the Birds. Going to go find some clean roads this weekend to investigate this bizarre problem further. Has to be electrical though doesnt it ?

+1 Best build quality I've seen, and performance is great. http://store.micronexhaust.com/index.php?m...odel=CBR-1100XX Interesting thread ,, My biggest gripe as previously mentioned is people burning themselves on my huge original cans. I have been thinking of getting the Akrapovic 4-1 system ,, but that Micron full system seems like a real good deal. If I could , I'd be going that way I reckon. I am limited to what I can hand carry back in here , probably picked up in Oz or Singapore and carried back into Vietnam ,, if i get it sent here they will crucify me on tax, but seem to me hand carry stuff in.