[Tigershark]

I gave up electronic cruise on my F700 after having it on my last two bikes. I miss it, but really like the Kaoko throttle lock. Pros and cons I know, but it works very well. As I’ve posted a number of times before, setting partial resistance smooths out throttle response which electronic cruise cannot do. It’s also much less that can fail being a very simple mechanical device. Regarding safety, I never use it where I wouldn’t have time to manually disable it in an emergency. Even in your car, you have to decide when its safe to use.

I looked at after market electronic cruise controls a while back. They were marketed as being a simple install, but owners have posted about them being the opposite. Lots of disassembly on the bike to get all the components interfaced, then time spent getting them calibrated to the bike. It was enough to turn me off and I do a fair amount of my own wrenching. I would suggest rather than listening to the easy peasy claims from the sellers sites, investigate experiences from customers who have done their own installs. It entails a lot more than swapping out a hand throttle and plugging in a couple of wires.

 

[Tigershark]

That’s what winter’s for.