Hello Bolzen.
The guy in this youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge5061MrcjE
chosen to run his Burgman 400 on 23gr weights.
The guy in this youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYZiVLy-_o
chosen to run Burgman 400 on 21gr weights.
Your choice is 18gr weights.
Clyffyk’s choice is (4x15gr and 4x18gr).
Obviously, each one of you thinks his choice is the best one.
Otherwise, in case you accept Clyffyk’s setting (5x15gr and 4x18gr) is better than yours (8x18gr), you should follow his formula / recipe.
I hear you saying: the best setting has to do with the rider and the way he likes to ride.
I add: the best setting has also to do with the road (dry or wet etc), with the weather (calm, windy etc), with the traffic, with how much tired is the rider, with the mood of the rider, etc, etc.
Having the option to align instantly and effortlessly your CVT’s weights to the existing conditions seems as the ideal solution.
This is what the PatBox can do to your CVT: depending on the instant conditions (road, traffic, co-rider, mood etc) you have the option to align your CVT weight on-the-fly instantly.
You write:
“suppose you face a wind gust during such a cruising, it will likely slow you down and you'd have to operate the lever to maintain constant speed at almost every wind change. Wouldn't think it's too relaxing.”
While the guy with the 23gr weights Burgman 400 (first youtube video) cannot help slowing down when he faces an adequately strong wind gust at cruising,
the rider of the PatBox Burgman 400 has the option to shift the lever (or the restoring spring of the lever) at a position replicating lighter weights (like yours or like Cliffyk’s).
Would you think this is “less relaxing” than having to travel with the engine revving permanently at higher revs (noise, smoothness, wear, increased fuel cost, more often stops at gas stations etc)?
Hello Clyffyk.
You write:
“I cannot imagine what a dog the 400 would be with anything more than 19 or 20g sliders.”
With your CVT upgraded to PatBox , you don’t need to imagine.
You just displace, on-the-fly, the PatBox lever and see “what dog the 400 would be with anything more than 19 or 20g sliders” (and with anything below 15gr sliders). And who knows? You may discover that your setting, 4x15 and 4x18, not the ideal one for you.
Like having a lab on the road.
Isn’t it better you the rider, and not the chosen weights in your CVT, to define how your scooter behaves on the road?
The theoretical analysis would be adequate for an engineer to be convinced.
But what about the practice?
Here are a couple of comments posted today, by a third party, in the moped army forum at
http://www.mopedarmy.com/forums/read.php?1,3941377
“As for eating power, It might, but my bike is faster now.
I can say that my hobbit is faster now than it was before.
Substantially.
Not having to accommodate for rpm drop at high speeds
because you can manually adjust opens so many new tuning avenues.”
and
“Tonight I went to the store.
Coming back I had to gun it uphill to catch the yellow.
The bike just went uphill so fast compared to my other tune I had on it.
It is nice to let the gearing do the work sometimes, and let the revs work other times.”
Thanks
Manolis Pattakos