[Singlin]

If you purchased your Bike with no Cruise Control you will have the "Non cruise control map" loaded
If you purchased your bike with cruise control you will have the "cruise control map" loaded
If you have a bike with no cruise control you will have to upload the map with cruise control.
This map is available on the Tene Ecu website.
FULL STOP.

 

[tsmgguy]

Thanks, guys.

 

[tauzero]

I'm a little frustrated - I had a couple of Positaps so tried connecting the button with them (still waiting for the Scotchloks) with no luck. I'd made up a lead with connector pins that I didn't use because I couldn't get the blanking tabs out of the receptacle, so I disconnected the connector and put the pins into the appropriate holes and was able to find that the positaps hadn't tapped - but I did the activation sequence and just shorted the wires that I used for testing together, so at least it's all ready for when I do get the button connected and the CC light doesn't keep flashing. A bit of a shame as I'm off on holiday tomorrow - 300 miles of largely motorway and dual carriageway, and no CC. Oh well.

 

[tsmgguy]

If you purchased your Bike with no Cruise Control you will have the "Non cruise control map" loaded
If you purchased your bike with cruise control you will have the "cruise control map" loaded
If you have a bike with no cruise control you will have to upload the map with cruise control.
This map is available on the Tene Ecu website.
FULL STOP.

Yeah, I was given a bad piece of information during dealer activation of my T120's cruise control. I understood that activation was the process of enabling the bike's factory loaded cruise control program after the CC kit had been installed. In other words, getting the ECU to "shake hands" with the new hardware and enabling function, with no program download. Wrong.

This statement is accurate: "You can download a CC program into the T120's ECU using Tune ECU"?

All of this gives some hope that the same thing might be done with a Thrux. How much CC design and development went into the Thrux before the decision was made to offer CC on the T120 only? We won't know until someone definitively succeeds or fails in installing it.

 

[Harry M.]

Yeah, I was given a bad piece of information during dealer activation of my T120's cruise control. I understood that activation was the process of enabling the bike's factory loaded cruise control program after the CC kit had been installed. In other words, getting the ECU to "shake hands" with the new hardware and enabling function, with no program download. Wrong.

This statement is accurate: "You can download a CC program into the T120's ECU using Tune ECU"?

All of this gives some hope that the same thing might be done with a Thrux. How much CC design and development went into the Thrux before the decision was made to offer CC on the T120 only? We won't know until someone definitively succeeds or fails in installing it.

You can upload an entire fuel and ignition map to the T120 that has Cruise Control software attached. There's no facility within Tuneecu to upload CC on it's own. At present, as far as I know, there's no way of separating the CC component from the rest of the map. On the T100 the fuel and ignition tables are identical in the factory map and CC map. Only difference is the CC.

For CC on the Thruxton to be possible Triumph would have to release a new map with CC attached. Unless it's possible to copy and paste Thruxton fuel and ignition tables onto a CC map from another bike? No idea, beyond my skills.

 

[tsmgguy]

You can upload an entire fuel and ignition map to the T120 that has Cruise Control software attached. There's no facility within Tuneecu to upload CC on it's own.

For CC on the Thruxton to be possible Triumph would have to release a new map with CC attached. Unless it's possible to copy and paste Thruxton fuel and ignition tables onto a CC map from another bike? No idea, beyond my skills.

Got it, thanks. Beyond my skills, too.

 

[Singlin]

It took only 4 days for the button from the link provided to arrive from the US to here in Italy.
I uploaded the stock cruise control map for my T100 to the bike.
I then installed the button and spliced in the Wires as shown in this thread.
Be carefull on the position chosen for drilling the 12mm hole for the button.It is best to place it as far left as possible as to the right their is a small flange on the underside which will make it difficult for the tightening nut to have room to fit.I had to Dremel a few mm in order for this nut to seat properly.
I took the bike for a spin just now and it works like a dream.
This is a really good mod.
Thanks.

 

[tahtye]

Good job!

That’s why I drilled from the inside..

 

[Singlin]

I should have thought of that before, but I was lucky in that I only had a hair of material to dremel down.
tahyte thanks a million for the post, this has made the difference in having cruise control or not.
I would not bother to spend 300 euros for the privelaga.
This has only cost me 8 dollars.

 

[tahtye]

You have proved one can enable cc for a few bucks..

 

[tsmgguy]

It took only 4 days for the button from the link provided to arrive from the US to here in Italy.
I uploaded the stock cruise control map for my T100 to the bike.
I then installed the button and spliced in the Wires as shown in this thread.
Be carefull on the position chosen for drilling the 12mm hole for the button.It is best to place it as far left as possible as to the right their is a small flange on the underside which will make it difficult for the tightening nut to have room to fit.I had to Dremel a few mm in order for this nut to seat properly.
I took the bike for a spin just now and it works like a dream.
This is a really good mod.
Thanks.

Excellent! Switch looks very factory, like it belongs there.

Hope now that someone figures out a way to add cruise control to a WC Thruxton. My riding buddy has one, and that's the reason for my interest. He'd love to have a cruise control that utilizes what Triumph has already built into the bike. He doesn't like the looks or the expense of the MCCruise, linked here:

Cruise Control for Triumph 1200 Thruxton & Thruxton R Cruise Control TBW

(10% GST will be added in the cart for Australian orders only) The Motorcycle Cruise Control unit is specifically designed for this vehicle. Note that this kit will NOT fit the 1200 Speed Twin. We have been unable to source a Speed Twin to develop a cruise control for this model. If anyone has...

www.mccruise.com

 

[Give The Cat a Goldfish]

Excellent! Switch looks very factory, like it belongs there.

Hope now that someone figures out a way to add cruise control to a WC Thruxton.

I'll be waiting for that. My knowledge of programming is very limited, but as I understand it a custom program for the Thrux could possibly be created by the addition of a CC module from one of the other ECU versions. As I understand it, an entire program or consists of many modules or files. Fuel and ignition mapping files/modules come to mind. The CC module could maybe be added by a competent programmer.

 

[Singlin]

The wires I spliced my switch wires into go into a connector which has wires coming out of and go up into my switch gear.
Maybe their is no need to splice but to just cut two wires in the switch gear and use those?

 

[tahtye]

I thought the same thing, but Triumph did not wire it like that. I obviously didn't buy it, but I believe when you buy their new switch cube, the cc wires are already pre-wired into the harness. You just plug it in. See how easy Triumph made the installation?

 

[tsmgguy]

Pictured is Triumph's non-DRL T120 cruise control kit. It replaces the entire left switch plate and clutch lever housing. No original parts are reused, including the bolts.

I looked inside of the connector on the end of the new wiring harness and noticed two new pins. The sockets for those pins were already present in the connector inside of the headlight bucket. The new clutch lever housing, lever, and switch look identical to the original.

This kit took about two hours to install myself using the instructions at https://www.triumphinstructions.com/ProdDocs/A9630248-EN.pdf. My dealer had agreed to activate CC at no additional charge other than the $282 purchase price. There's no need to remove the bike's battery. Just leave the ignition off while you're working. You don't want the ECU detecting missing components and throwing codes.

Some kits replace both the clutch lever and brake lever/reservoir housings. Don't know for sure why that is, but my dealer told me that some T120s were produced without the switch in the throttle grip that you can feel when rotating the grip past the stop. This switch is one of the ways that CC is turned off.

The new switch plate includes new wiring for the left heated grip. The connector for the grip was easy to fish out of the inside of the handle bar. There's no need to remove the left grip for kit installation.

 

[tahtye]

All Triumph really needed to add was the switch cube half that has the switches, along with the added wires and modified connector.

 

[tsmgguy]

All Triumph really needed to add was the switch cube half that has the switches, along with the added wires and modified connector.

That's what I thought, too. Basically, the kit installs with two bolts and three connectors.

Can't help but notice that none of the switch contacts inside of the left switch plate are weather proofed. There's a caution in the owner's handbook against getting the switch plates wet while washing the bike. This is probably why.

 

[tahtye]

Yes, I noticed there is an opening where the turn signal switch goes thru the housing. Then I saw the weep hole at the bottom. This told me the housing was not waterproof and was designed that way.

 

[Singlin]

With the help of Caferacer I managed to transfer my custom map from DivaDanielle to the stock Cruise control map.
In TuneEcu I oopend Divas map and then on the F1 page and then selected "Table-Copy" then I went to "map-open" I opened the cruise control map
and made sure I was on the F1page and then I slected "Table-Paste The "map again where I scrolled to the bottom and selected "Save"
I did this for all the successive pages.
I then loaded this new map to the bike and all is good.

 

[tahtye]

Fantastic. This keeps getting better for folks that would like to have cc for next to nothing. If you're interested in better performance, a DNK tune is worth it imho. You could kill two birdies with one stone.

Too bad all models don't have it..