SuperBike Magazine July 2020
The July issue is packed with awesome content to keep you busy over the remaining days of July. We are hard at work putting our August issue to bed!
The July issue is packed with awesome content to keep you busy over the remaining days of July. We are hard at work putting our August issue to bed!
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The TFT Dash is a<br />
welcome addition<br />
to this new GT.<br />
bars are a little more up right but it’s<br />
the screen and fat tank that really make<br />
the difference. The handlebars are also<br />
movable through 4 different positions to<br />
find your exact sweet spot. You immediately<br />
feel like its a man’s bike, sorry if<br />
I’m offending any of the ladies here but<br />
just sitting on the bike makes you want<br />
to flex your muscles. The big TFT dash<br />
and nice new switch gear also make<br />
a welcome addition. The bike has GT<br />
specific hand guards and heated grips<br />
are standard. There is a list of over 50<br />
“ optional” parts which can be ordered<br />
for the bike with things like hard saddle<br />
bags, heated seat and and and…...<br />
There are 3 rider modes settings<br />
Sport, Road and Rain, the first two<br />
deliver the full 175 Hp but in Road it’s<br />
a smoother delivery, in Rain it gets<br />
dropped down to 100 Hp.<br />
The uprated 1290 GT also features<br />
a revamped version of WP’s semi-active<br />
suspension, with three different<br />
riding modes available for selection by<br />
the rider—Comfort, Street and Sport.<br />
These are obtained via an SCU/Suspension<br />
Control Unit which, according<br />
to feedback from accelerometers and<br />
stroke sensors front and rear, adapts<br />
the damping rates of WP’s 48mm upside<br />
down fork and rear monoshock to best<br />
suit the properties of the road surface,<br />
as well as the rider’s style. To give you<br />
guys an indication of the improvement<br />
on the suspension from the previous<br />
model, the hardware has stayed the<br />
same but the software is so up graded<br />
that the accuracy is now three times<br />
greater in monitoring the street surface<br />
and analysing the result than it used to<br />
be before. So in touring Comfort mode<br />
it is very soft and smooth and almost<br />
telepathic.<br />
I went out on track with the bike set<br />
in Comfort, after a few laps the owner<br />
of the bike Lyle Fraser stopped me and<br />
set the suspension and the riding mode<br />
to Sport . What a completely different<br />
bike, the “Super Duke R” was back. The<br />
difference was quite staggering, like<br />
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. On a touring ride<br />
this must be a very nice option to have<br />
I thought to myself, it’s truly like having
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