2008 Yamaha R6 Race bike
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:22 am
Hi Everyone, I guess this is a bit of an introduction thread too? sure why not!
I'm a 25 year old Kiwi studying Computer Engineering at Canterbury University and this is me on my race bike:
It's a 2008 Yamaha R6, pretty much completely stock except for the race fairings, foot pegs and the gear shift direction is flipped.
Here's the wikipedia article on my R6.
But to sumarise:
Naturally aspirated, 600cc, 4 stroke, inline 4, DOHC, producing something between 110-115hp.
The intention here has sort of spiraled out of control, to start with I wanted to just data log with my android phone....then an arduino....now the wiring loom annoys me as it's stock and has the dumb yamaha immobiliser so I was going to black box the immobiliser key RFID thing, and now I want to pull the whole thing out and build my own, I guess my idea is to build the smartbike, a motorcycle that not only collects data on what's going on, but assists the rider to this too (I love ABS, traction control, anti-wheelie - I know a lot of people don't, but I think they're fascinating)
I only club race, and I intend to stretch this project over my educational career as a motivation/real life application (I find these help keep me sane) so don't expect mega changes straight away, I still have 2 assignments, 3 labs and 4 exams to get through before the summer!
First thing I guess I have to do is start listing the number of sensors and controls on the bike and build an understanding of how they communicate with the ecu.
Comments welcome, encouragement would be good too haha
I'm a 25 year old Kiwi studying Computer Engineering at Canterbury University and this is me on my race bike:
It's a 2008 Yamaha R6, pretty much completely stock except for the race fairings, foot pegs and the gear shift direction is flipped.
Here's the wikipedia article on my R6.
But to sumarise:
Naturally aspirated, 600cc, 4 stroke, inline 4, DOHC, producing something between 110-115hp.
The intention here has sort of spiraled out of control, to start with I wanted to just data log with my android phone....then an arduino....now the wiring loom annoys me as it's stock and has the dumb yamaha immobiliser so I was going to black box the immobiliser key RFID thing, and now I want to pull the whole thing out and build my own, I guess my idea is to build the smartbike, a motorcycle that not only collects data on what's going on, but assists the rider to this too (I love ABS, traction control, anti-wheelie - I know a lot of people don't, but I think they're fascinating)
I only club race, and I intend to stretch this project over my educational career as a motivation/real life application (I find these help keep me sane) so don't expect mega changes straight away, I still have 2 assignments, 3 labs and 4 exams to get through before the summer!
First thing I guess I have to do is start listing the number of sensors and controls on the bike and build an understanding of how they communicate with the ecu.
Comments welcome, encouragement would be good too haha