My Cruise control won't allow me to accelerate just by twisting the throttle - Is this normal?

[Lctriple]

My 2015 F3S won't accelerate when twisting the throttle if the cruise is engaged. I have to shut the cruise off, then twist the throttle. In my experience, that could be bad in certain situations, like trying to avoid a car drifting into your lane.

 

[Knizar]

My 2020 RTL operates and accels with cruise set.
Can't say about a 2015, but I believe you have a problem!

 

[Mrmikey]

Same machine as mine and I can accelerate no problem above the set cruise speed. I will say tho, there's a fair bit of the grip rotation needed to get past the dead spot until it accelerates.

 

[Dusterdude]

durn tootin it does

 

[jzeiler]

I thought that was what was happening to mine on my last trip. I finally rotated the throttle far enough to go past the cruise speed to pass another vehicle and when I released the throttle it went right back to the set cruise speed.

 

[Dasmoetorhead]

My 2015 F3S won't accelerate when twisting the throttle if the cruise is engaged. I have to shut the cruise off than twist the throttle. In my experience that could be bad in certain situations. Like trying to avoid a car drifting in to your lane.

That aint right!

 

[Snoking1127]

You have to twist the throttle past the point for the throttle amount need for the set speed.

 

[Peter Aawen]

My 2015 F3S won't accelerate when twisting the throttle if the cruise is engaged. I have to shut the cruise off, then twist the throttle. In my experience, that could be bad in certain situations, like trying to avoid a car drifting into your lane.

As @Snoking1127 & @Mrmikey have sorta alluded above, we've had a few here who didn't realise that you have to roll the throttle on enough that you take it past where it was when you set the cruise control speed before you'll start accelerating any faster than that set speed - could that be what's happening here?

You can try it to see if it's that simply by finding a bit of road where you can set cruise and ride safely for a while, only when you set the cruise speed, don't release the throttle, just lightly hold it in the same place. Then once you can feel that it's actually the set cruise speed controlling the Spyder's speed, try rolling on more throttle to see if it accelerates then.

If it does, then it's normal and all is working the way it was designed - you just have to roll the throttle on enough to go PAST the speed where it was when you set it, which is effectively what all cruise controls do.

Please get back to us and tell us how this goes.

 

[Cobranut]

As Peter said, twist the throttle far enough to get past it's current position on cruise and it should accelerate.

 

[Mikey]

It should go up, but if you want it to go slower than the set speed, then yes, you have to kick it out, either by tapping your brake or hitting your switch in the down position.

 

[Mrmikey]

.... either by tapping your brake....

I tap the brake to disengage it, I leave the cruise on all the time. I will say tho, unless you give it a bit of throttle to get it in the approximate current speed position before tapping the brake, the slowdown is quite fast. If you have to stop in a hurry that's no big deal but a bit disconcerting if you're intent was to decelerate slowly.

 

[Lctriple]

That's probably what's happening. I'll give it a go and report back. Thanks for all the feedback.

 

[JayBros]

Fly by wire, no mechanical throttle linkage to right twist grip.

 

[Snoking1127]

It should go up, but if you want it to go slower than the set speed, then yes, you have to kick it out, either by tapping your brake or hitting your switch in the down position.

Or shift gears!

 

[Lctriple]

Fly by wire, no mechanical throttle linkage to right twist grip.

This might be my first bike with ride by wire. I had a 13 Goldwing Bagger and a Victory Cross Roads with cruise control, but I don't remember having an issue with twisting the throttle and going immediately.