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Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by brobinson on Friday September 18, 2015 @02:02PM (#10240918)
Some models of the Yamaha R1 have an intentional flat spot in their fuel maps which happens to be right at the spot where testing happens, too.

In a similar vein, the Aprilia RSV4 kind of cheats at noise testing: in neutral, there is a baffle which flips down to dampen the exhaust note a bit. :)

Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by vesrah on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:53PM (#10242285)
Almost all supersport bikes coming into the US utilize both of these strategies. :)

I own a Ducati 999 that was lemonlawed because it would stall at stop lights. Super common and happened because of how lean the bikes had to run to pass US emissions.

Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by brobinson on Friday September 18, 2015 @07:06PM (#10242540)
Google said "random stalls" were kind of endemic to Ducatis. :P Didn't know it was related to the fuel mapping! I had a 1098 which would occasionally (maybe once per month) randomly stall at 0% throttle when braking to a stop. I had a full Termignoni system + race ECU, though. California doesn't do emissions testing on bikes, surprisingly!

I had to put a Power Commander on my R1 because of the aforementioned lean spot. The engine would "chug" at about 37mph (5.2k rpm in 1st gear), which unfortunately happened to be a very common cruising speed. Google showed lots of complaints for other years as well.

Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by toomuchtodo on Friday September 18, 2015 @10:35PM (#10243077)
I can assure you that the engine on the R1 doesn't chug along at sport bike speeds though ;)
Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by brobinson on Saturday September 19, 2015 @04:34AM (#10243710)
Yes, certainly not. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSsP-itS8qI

I commuted to work in San Francisco on literbikes, but on weekends I would head south and open them up.