1200 DVT Customising Riding Modes

... Mine'll do wheelies with DTC on 4 in sports mode (default value)
Think it depends on how heavy handed you are with the throttle ...

 

So how do you change the modes, i know how to switch between them but not actually get into them to change something. Bloody manual is hard work.

 

I've decided I need a 'crappy country lane' mode so I'll probably modify the enduro mode to mirror urban, but with the power of touring (so a bit softer/smoother than touring but with the DTC and ABS to cope with mud and leaves).

 

You wait 'til you're stopped? I've found it pretty good about changing modes on the go, like switching between Urban and Touring as you leave/enter towns. Just be careful to pick a long enough straight on which you're clear to coast on the clutch for a second

 

Press the button under the indicator button and hold it until a menu pops up in the circular window.
Scroll thru the options and change away

 

I use urban for rain, I have set enduro for a more advanced Touring in high mode

 

Same. Rode in deluge on motorway or country roads in winter on Touring modes no probs.

These are safety aids and the last line of defence. Should still ride with skill and care. Never had the DTC light up during rain unless accidentally open up in the rain. And definitely not in Touring.

DWC and DTC for advanced riders though apparently make for some impressive power slides.

 

Guys, I may be missing something here but if you change modes on the DVT you are changing the suspension settings. On the old bike you could see what these were and adjust them to match another mode. On the DVT it just gives Default and harder or softer. If like me you used enduro as a wet mode with Touring suspension settings but higher DTC you can no longer achieve this. What we need are details of each modes actual settings versus the word descriptions to get a closest match. The DVT is less flexible currently for user changes.

 

Isn't it all from the same relative point tho? Is default is medium the same on all modes

 

Following a rather buttock clenching incident powering away from a damp roundabout, I've changed my Sport setting from DTC2 to DTC3 . Touring stays at DTC5.

 

On the old bike using menus each suspension parameter (front compression, front rebound, rear compression, rear rebound) could be set to an exact figure within each mode. Then on the road as soon as you selected a mode, the suspension setting would move to those figures and stay fixed there.

In the case of the new bike, the settings do not remain fixed but change continuously on the fly. That is the essence of skyhook. It necessarily follows that you cannot set exact figures via the menus. You can set ranges (such as hardest/harder/neutral/softer/softest), but if you could set a fixed figure the flexibility of skyhook would be lost.

If you bought a car with an automatic gearbox, you would find that you no longer had full control over all the gear changes.

 

Pete I understand your point but my thinking was that the skyhook "default" setting in each mode would be different and as such the harder and softer range would vary about a different midpoint.
what I want to do is set the midpoint for enduro to be same as midpoint for touring and then adjust the DTC DWC and ABS to suit.

 

I was told that Sky hook is switched off in single rider Sports mode, the active suspension is still active, but you should get more duck and diving under load, can anyone else confirm?

 

Trickyricky, a dealer should save your modes, and then upload them back again as part of the software update, mine have always been

 

Not from my experience yesterday on the test ride. Quite the opposite in fact.

 

mine was serviced yesterday and think everything is back to default. But can't remember if I changed it or not before