I’ve been on the road for about a month now, new arm and dialling it in slowly as I build strength in my short arm. Along the way, I’ve made a few adjustments to the controls and the arm.
The arm now has a lower lever ratio / greater range of movement as well as a change in its resting position. I’ve gone from a resting position of 2 degrees at the elbow to 20 degrees, with a total range of movement of 85 degrees. The lower lever ratio means an initial increase in the shock absorbers air pressure, but I’ve since dropped that back to 30psi compression and maybe 10psi rebound. Still trying to find a sweet spot here between being able to easily move the elbow and having it return quickly to feel natural.
The controls have been updated by removing the Spirit Beast two-button housing and replacing it with a KTM style switch assembly. The KTM switch assembly is mounted to the underside of the RH switchgear assembly by way of an adapter plate. As with the killswitch being a Hi/Lo beam switch the momentary KTM kill switch required a relay to operate properly on the Gran Milano.
I was having an issue with the additional headlight relay failing but added rubber mount between the relay and the frame of the bike.
New control layout with the KTM switch assembly.
Headlight relay, mounted to frame with vibration mount.
Kill switch relay; the KTM kill switch is a normally open momentary switch, where the SWM needs an normally closed latching switch.
The new arm, the bike and yours truly.
Jacket sleeve sorted. The DriRider Mx Rally Cros Pro 3 has removable sleeves, which was fine for a while. I’ve since had the LH sleeve shortened professionally and it looks a lot better.