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straight up pleasurable experience.ĭownshifting is also considerably smoothed out. Shifting up and shifting down for stop lights and signs etc. VERY smooth shifts and throttle transition. Taking off down the street: the difference in shifting is night and day comparison. While starting from a dead stop: I was immediately impressed by how smooth the transition is now. This has been a constant so far after the flash. The bike seemed to crank less and sprung to life instantly. I noticed the difference the moment I fired her up. While doing so- I made some observations. The dealer is about an hour away so I got to ride freeway (80 plus mph freeway speeds and stop and go traffic) and busy downtown Sacramento city streets (just to get a cup of joe from my favorite coffee shop). There are no YouTube examples of removing the cat on the new 2022 E5 bikes & only very basic ones on the E4 bikes so don't start what you can't finish is my advice.The dealer flashed my ride today. Luckily I did my research before I bought the bike & am well equipped to do these tasks. Likewise, you cant fit an X pipe as you won't have any rear pipes after eventually removing the cat. You have to remove both frame tubes to get the cat out which for most will be a very involved task. Another BIG so called upgrade not to tamper is the cat that is now fully welded to the rear pipes so to remove it you need to do some advanced surgery to remove it. I've fitted it & it runs fine with the mute as advised. I've fitted a TEC 2:1 full exhaust system to it but have been told by TEC that you must use a mute or it will not run. You should be able to fit headers or some baffled silencers but the cat removal is on a different level of difficulty. The ECU on these E5 bikes are now tamper proof so you cant re map, fit a fuel booster to correct the fuel or cant change the tune at all or fit any aftermarket ECU like Power commander etc. I bought a brand new E5 2022 Speed Twin 2 months ago, July 22. Prior to that the earlier Sagem ECU's would adapt within 30secs if left to idle without touching the throttle. It does this continuously or it can be forced to adapt, a process that, once up to temperature (72☌, having risen at least 20☌ from cold) and since the introduction of Keihin ECUs in 2005, takes 12 mins, not 15, of idling with no throttle input. Like most every engine management system Triumph's systems are adaptive which means the system is able to learn and adapt to new or changed operating conditions. To flash an ECU is to load an updated map or tune which is quite different to the 'Adaption Routine' that Triumph's have featured for many years. It's the use of the term '15 min flash' that rattled my goat a bit. Come to think of what do BC say? Have they got a custom tune available or do they not know the answer to your question either? Maybe they have something for the '22 Speed Twin 1200 when fitted with a BC cat delete x-pipe and mid pipe. This has forced companies like Rottweiler to invest heavily in developing their own custom maps. KTM still offers an Akrapovič performance exhaust for it's 1290 SuperDuke and 890 Duke (which are Euro5) but their dealers are under strict instructions not to allow use of the associated map or tune with any other brand of exhaust. Happy to be corrected on this if I'm mistaken. Looking at the approved accessory range I don't think Triumph is even offering factory approved accessory exhaust systems for any model anymore which is rather telling. The lack of alternate tunes or maps from Triumph for specific sports, TOR or track use only exhausts suggests Euro5 is way more restrictive than before. I suspect they will adapt themselves to freer flowing exhausts and suchlike it's just that you can't 'force' it to do so. Prior to that the earlier Sagem ECU's would adapt within 30secs if left to idle without touching the throttle.Īs to whether the very latest Euro5 compliant bikes still allow forced adaption or not is unclear at this stage. It does this continuously or it can be forced to adapt, a process that, once up to temperature (72☌, having risen at least 20☌ from cold) and since the introduction of Keihin ECUs in 2005, takes 12, not 15 mins, of idling with no throttle input.