griff851
You can join the "we hate Ron fan club" that helps.
A guy I know has an Alcamy with his own special motor. It had an incident involving another bike in which the other rider had a date with the grim reaper. Old mate fixed up his machine and needed it re-logged. Now Ron baby use to have the fastest Bevel in Oz, until his son successfully turned his wonder bike into a ball of scrap metal. Ron was not happy. He's now got over it and building a new super zoomer. Ron is also the " specialist" certifier for MA.
Now old mates bike is quick. Very quick. Very very quick. The pilot is a mad pom. And he's quick and totally dedicated to going stupidly quick. I kid you not, I have seen him start from the pit lane and win or pull a place, about six times now. However Ron keeps knocking the bike back because of seriously trivial stuff like the seat padding being 1cm to short/long, thus not silhouette etc. Yet the same guy passes a 92' 888 as a 90' cause they're mates. And is using a 16M with injectors hidden inside delorrto's supposedly on his new bike.
I've had a crank done by Ron, yet to run it up. So I met him at the track with the 888 that failed at the TT a while back. (And at the track that weekend funnily enough. Loose plug, the ECU mounted at the front on a weird angle, same issue at the TT. Every time he'd WOT and the front wheel lifted, the g load moved the ECU plug, and it would die. The hard down re seated the plug and away she'd go. I taped it up, no more issue.)
I was introduced to Ron as the guy that helped out. Then I thanked him for my crank job, in a friendly manner. (He'd drilled when he could have ground my beautifully hand sculptured aerodynamically perfect crank I did 25 years ago, and we both know he did it just to be a bastard.) He clicked, knew I wasn't at the track to F*** spiders, and just turned his back on me. Rude prick! And yet before he was your best mate on the phone. Then as if by magic the guy I helped out after they came to me, wasn't so friendly anymore. Wankers! Except for the spanner, he seemed like a nice kid.
So feel free to join the "we hate Ron club", maybe he'll get the hint we're all here for a good time, not a long time, and loosen up.
desmo54
😁 That's Gold!
johnboy888
You might want to go back to a stock chip before going too far. You never know, the mechanics diagnostic computer might have screwed up the FIM chip settings.
I can probably help to supply a stock 888 chip if you want, just PM me if you want.
Cheers,
John
desmo54
Thanks johnboy 888, I have that in mind for future diagnostics.. I spoke to Brad Black last week about about a stock chip.
Cheers
Christine
freqrider
I had a similar problem of surging, stalling on my SPO and it was a faulty FIM chip. The daughterboard on those are pretty delicate in my experience. Put a stock chip in and problem was gone. I now have a custom map burned on my chip.
desmo54
Thanks freqrider,It seems to me, that probably is the problem. Ron said his computer went haywire when he plugged into my bike. I think the chip could be damaged.
freqrider
An FIM chipped bike can't be diagnosed with standard Ducati tools. You need the FIM software/hand held terminal, so It doesn't surprise me.
desmo54
Bought bike in November. I had no idea bike had an FIM chip. If the local mechanic, that I trust, can't find anything in the throttle bodies, I'll take it to D Moto in Sydney. They have the software for FIM.
desmo54
Thanks to all, for your help. Got the bike back from D Moto last Saturday. Bike had been running too lean, needed tuning. Still not sure how/why this happened after Ron plugged his software into it. I'm just happy the bike runs like a dream again, without having to replace the chip.😄
freqrider
FIM stores Zones on the built in memory of the ECU. They probably got corrupted somehow. I was told this happens sometimes.
