JustHoward
Well-known member
The issues of the 2013 cruise control speed limit have been discussed in the pinned thread about the 2013 models. I started this thread because the cruise control discussion, which I feel is a meaningful discussion, gets diffused in the sixty plus pages in the other thread.
NOTE: For those of you who couldn't care less about the 80 mph limit on the cruise control, PLEASE refrain from interjecting any negative comments about those of us who do care about this issue. Nothing that happens with this issue will affect any other part of the bike, and since you don't care one way or the other about the issue, nothing that evolves will affect you.
THE ISSUE:
We FJR owners have asked for a factory installed cruise control for many years. Now Yamaha has installed such a unit, and made it a standard feature of the 2013 bikes. However, the 2013 cruise control is limited to 80 mph in the US version, and limited to 132 mph (180 kph) in the European version. The legal speed limit inparts of the the US is 85 mph, and we FJR riders have been known to cruise along at speeds, sometimes, slightly in excess of the speed limit. So I, for one, consider the 80 mph cc limit a problem.
Although several Yamaha reps have given various of our members differing stories, the word that I got from Dennis McNeal, the head of Yamaha Motorcycles in the US, is that he wasn't aware of the problem until I notified him. He said that the decision on the cc was made in Japan. On a subsequent phone call with Sean Ryan, head of customer service, I was told that since I was the only potential customer voicing complaint, there probably wouldn't be a fix, but maybe there would be.
In the previous thread, I encouraged those of us who are interested in buying a 2013 FJR, or even a later model in the future, to write to Mr.McNeal and voice your concern about this arbitrary limit. If enough potential customers write to him, he might take action to resolve this situation.
His mailing info:
Dennis McNeal
Yamaha Motor Corporation
6555 Katella Avenue
Cypress, CA 90630
Snail mail is more effective than email. When you write, please be respectful. We can't lose anything with this write-in effort, and we just might get Yamaha to make a change in this system.
Howard
NOTE: For those of you who couldn't care less about the 80 mph limit on the cruise control, PLEASE refrain from interjecting any negative comments about those of us who do care about this issue. Nothing that happens with this issue will affect any other part of the bike, and since you don't care one way or the other about the issue, nothing that evolves will affect you.
THE ISSUE:
We FJR owners have asked for a factory installed cruise control for many years. Now Yamaha has installed such a unit, and made it a standard feature of the 2013 bikes. However, the 2013 cruise control is limited to 80 mph in the US version, and limited to 132 mph (180 kph) in the European version. The legal speed limit inparts of the the US is 85 mph, and we FJR riders have been known to cruise along at speeds, sometimes, slightly in excess of the speed limit. So I, for one, consider the 80 mph cc limit a problem.
Although several Yamaha reps have given various of our members differing stories, the word that I got from Dennis McNeal, the head of Yamaha Motorcycles in the US, is that he wasn't aware of the problem until I notified him. He said that the decision on the cc was made in Japan. On a subsequent phone call with Sean Ryan, head of customer service, I was told that since I was the only potential customer voicing complaint, there probably wouldn't be a fix, but maybe there would be.
In the previous thread, I encouraged those of us who are interested in buying a 2013 FJR, or even a later model in the future, to write to Mr.McNeal and voice your concern about this arbitrary limit. If enough potential customers write to him, he might take action to resolve this situation.
His mailing info:
Dennis McNeal
Yamaha Motor Corporation
6555 Katella Avenue
Cypress, CA 90630
Snail mail is more effective than email. When you write, please be respectful. We can't lose anything with this write-in effort, and we just might get Yamaha to make a change in this system.
Howard
