Back from a week in Europe and had a few issues with cruise. A few times it wouldn't engage at all, with the green light on the left of the dash not coming on and other times just refusing to engage (with the green light on). It seemed to settle down after a while and towards the end of the week was behaving itself. I preferred disengaging by rolling off the throttle rather than braking or clutching and found it worked better with a positive on then off. Not perfect, but it definitely makes motorway mile munching less of a chore.
The settings within the CC work once the CC is engaged i.e. green light ON. You can disengage that by either pressing one of the brakes or pulling the clutch -my preferred method- or by closing the throttle. Once you've disengaged the CC, the speed that's set will stay in memory as long as the green CC light on ON. However once you've turned that OFF -green CC light OFF- the speed that's setup will be erased from the memory, and the next time you engage the CC you'll have to set a new speed reading. My car's CC works exactly the same way. While on the CC you can increase or decrease speed, but if at the same time the Player is turned ON that causes a small latency as you will be using the same buttons for the Player volume and for managing the CC speed, nut still it works. I found this actually very innovative from Ducati, really good work there. Personally I love using the CC especially inside tunnels; the dashboard's shining like a Christmas tree full of lights of different colour and having hands off the bars feeling like a champ on a victory round
Didn't read the manual and figured it out while on the bike. Works exactly like every other cruise control system I've used, so didn't have an issue. I also found rolling off the throttle was a much better way to "pause" the CC than dabbing the brakes - which just sounds like an accident waiting to happen!
What do you mean by rolling off the throttle? I regularly let mine go on long periods of cruising and it doesn't disengage the cc! Bit pointless having it if you have to keep the throttle open!
To disengage the cruise control you have to close the throttle positively and pretty firmly. Just letting the throttle roll off does not do it.
The disadvantage of rolling off the throttle is that the bike cuts off the speed instantly resulting in a slight push forward which could be problem when you have passenger sitting behind you. Namely the firm roll off is hard to control. Instead pulling gently the clutch and maintaining the revs will result to a smooth disengagement of the CC.
We're talking about the DVT with cruise control here - so the rear brake works just fine. It's entirely different from the 2010-14 MTS.
This thread reminded me to rebuy a go-cruise2 throttle lock, n1 (as i am not currently a owner of a mutley)
Well that's me told, good and proper! Don't believe a word of it though, my last 3 bikes have had single sided swing arms, and none of the rear brakes have been very effective. Jon.
Daveoz, I get this from time to time too. I only ever see it first thing in the morning when it's cold. Exactly the same symptoms as you say above, green light on, but just doesn't engage.....
