I picked up my 2012 Multistrada 1200 S Touring three weeks ago and switched it to Urban mode and forgot about the configuration for the most part. Since riding back from Cornwall in the dark with Mutley's lights illuminating passing aircraft but not the road I have tried a few times to access the DES and also activate the heated grips. I'm not at all mechanically minded but i'm OK with computers and consumer electronics. This afternoon I had a concerted effort and discovered that the menu items simply don't exist on my bike. I was worried that I'd been conned and it wasn't an S Touring but all the hardware is there: Ohlins suspension forks, pre-load servo motor and heated grips, as well as the centre stand and panniers. I'll post a pic of the menu showing the lack of DES menu option compared to the manual. The heated grips menu doesn't appear when pressing the ignition button when the engine is running, so nothing to take a pic of on that one. Does anyone know if there is a code or cable that I can use to activate 'S Touring' mode or do I need to take Mutley to a dealer/specialist?
Are you pressing the right button? It is the turn indicator cancel button in the middle - not the lower one.
Yup - initially I didn't get the menus/buttons but I'm happy with how to navigate and change items now.
I think so: 1) S Touring on the registration doc. 2) Gold Ohlins forks 3) Pre-load servo motor 4) Heated grips physically present 5) Centre stand 6) Panniers
It seems like something isnt configured in , is there any workshop modes the clocks can be put into ...... normally something like holding certain buttons together for a few seconds or maybe a dealer job
It sounds like the system has been flashed with the wrong software. When applying the upgrades you must select abs or non abs software. Don't ask me why its how it says in the factory workshop manual.
Is flashing it with the latest firmware something a techie wannabe like me might be able to have a bash at or does it require specialist software and cables?
I'd get it done by a Ducati dealer personally with whoever you bought it off agreeing to pay for the fix that is. You did pay for/buy a Touring S afterall.
No pisstaking intended, but given some of your posts, step away from the bike and take it to a dealer
Very odd, I'm assuming if you select say 2 riders with luggage you hear the servoes changing the suspension preload? If it helps I have to keep the lower selector button pressed for 5 seconds to enter the set up modes, then from there scroll through them selecting the option that's highlighted with the indicator cancel button. you can set up each mode i.e 1 helmet has all it's own settings, 2 helmets has it's own settings....ect. But none of that woult fix your problem with the heated grips. Get it to a dealer it will take them 15 mins to flash the ECU with the correct software
Not a chance. Take it to the last dealer who serviced it...they must have loaded the wrong software...assuming you are driving the menus correctly. Get another bike (box hill etc) and look side by side. When we got nearly 40 Mutleys together (30+) there wasn't any non-abs models present.
Nope - there just isn't any suspension options in the menus. I'll take him to Ducati to get his ECU updated and I'm sure he'll be fine. I had a brilliant ride from Fulham to Andover and back today. Motorway option 1h18m. A3/A31 option ~2h....guess which I went for? :-D Managed to avoid 99.9% of the rain by pure luck. I think I discovered motorcycling today properly - i was amazed by how you can 'achieve the maximum legal speed' very rapidly on pretty much every country road, overtake in situations where most cars couldn't even dream of overtaking and decelerate unbelievably rapidly. I may be developing an addiction?
That is the point LOL. Cars are useless these days for making progress, they simply sit bumper to bumper usually 20 mph below the speed limit never overtaking unless there is a dual carriageway, and the second you do an overtake in a car they try to block you, beep their horns or hang off your arse like you took away their manhoods. On a bike, you just overtake after overtake in seconds. Bloody brilliant rather than being a sheep. Would sooner get wet and get home an hour earlier than sit in traffic any day.
