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Cruise control limited to < 100 mph

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Anibal said:
From the safety standpoint, I think that would be sensible.
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I agree that's the reason behind it. The interstate had little traffic, but that traffic was doing mostly 90-95 mph. So, I put the cruise control as high as it would accept, which looks like 98 mph, and rode about 30 miles like that. Just slightly overtaking the few cars on the road that day.
 
Jesss, 90/95mph will land you in hot water in the UK. We have speed cameras, average speed cameras, CCTV cameras and the rest, not to mention the a few pot holes along the road to make things a bit more interesting.
 
This is something I would have never discovered. Nice to have you young fellas to keep us up on technology.
 
Yes, speeds in the U.S. vary quite a bit. I find my R18 TC cruises quite comfortably at 75-85mph.
A few years ago I rode my R1150GS from Santa Cruz, California to Lake Havasu, Arizona, rarely went below 80mph, much of the trip was around 90-95mph. Fastest day-long road trip I ever made.
 
Cu Dubh said:
Yes, speeds in the U.S. vary quite a bit. I find my R18 TC cruises quite comfortably at 75-85mph.
A few years ago I rode my R1150GS from Santa Cruz, California to Lake Havasu, Arizona, rarely went below 80mph, much of the trip was around 90-95mph. Fastest day-long road trip I ever made.
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First time ever I have found this combination of low traffic, not windy and fast (but not crazy) drivers that one could overtake ever so slowly for such a long stretch. It was a blast.
 
emgarciax said:
First time ever I have found this combination of low traffic, not windy and fast (but not crazy) drivers that one could overtake ever so slowly for such a long stretch. It was a blast.
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I ride around the Sebring area, 6000 miles this winter. I know some good twisty roads that are a lot of fun. I have the acorn nuts under the footboard about ground off. I occasionally get the outside toe of my boot sole too.
 
oldslodog said:
I ride around the Sebring area, 6000 miles this winter. I know some good twisty roads that are a lot of fun. I have the acorn nuts under the footboard about ground off. I occasionally get the outside toe of my boot sole too.
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I've ridden to Turn 2 Brewing couple of times.
 
I was surprised my R18 travelled as well as it did at 3,000 rpm in 6th.
Also, I haven’t seen any comments on this point, but the boxer engine has a noticeable break-in-period.
At 5,300 miles, it is much easier about higher rpm’s than when new.
 
At 13,000+ miles... I was playing around with the adaptive cruise control (between 40 mph - 55 mph); switching gears up & down based on the vehicle ahead of me... BMW did a good job with the ACC feature.

The ACC feature is highly underutilized by myself, I'm going to start using it a little more on future rides... I was also extremely happy with how smooth my bike shifts, runs and handles overall... Absolutely no regrets...
 
Same here. I use my ACC most of the time as I am normally on the motorway cruising at 70mph. On those occasions where the traffic starts to build up, I disengage it and ride manually but as soon as I see a flowing traffic ahead of me, it goes back on. It gives you that little extra freedom to do other things whilst riding or even relax a bit and enjoy the experience.
It is a shame BMW did not give the K1600B an ACC, that would have been a game changer for such an amazing bike, which I consider it to be a flagship.
 
BER18 100 said:
I was surprised my R18 travelled as well as it did at 3,000 rpm in 6th.
Also, I haven’t seen any comments on this point, but the boxer engine has a noticeable break-in-period.
At 5,300 miles, it is much easier about higher rpm’s than when new.
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Agreed. Also the exhaust gets a deeper note.
 
I would for legal reasons have expected it to be limited to the max. speed of the country it was sold in. Maybe EU set to 100mph as there is no max on some stretches of autibahn and the mountain section of the IoM. So in the US it is apart from common sense safety also respecting personal choice.
 
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