Bought a Mile as second bike "just to ride "

First mods that i did were the usual ones

- upgraded cables

- fireblade side stand

- falco brake lines as i wanted to move the clip ons over the yoke

- new K&N air filter as the BMC has started to fall apart

Next on the list was getting the Mille the add-ons that were missing - carbon wings and rear seat cowl.

With the bike on "sport mode" it was time to get on the track again, but since the was nothing more to be expected from the Mille, the was a lot to be done on my riding skills, so i went to "school" let by a local racer.

He helped me a lot on the race lines as before i was pretty lost on the turns.

I knew you were teasing us - with more to come!

Lovely bike, looks to be in very good condition

badapple wrote: Great write up

i have not finished

After i was pleased with the capabilities of the Mille and got some knowledge on the lines,

it was much more obvious that it is me that is holding the bike to go fast and follow the race line, so

it was time for another riding skills lesson.

This time i went to another trainer and started from the basics - turning and body position.

After one day of doing 8s i was looking like that in the end.

I was exhausted and barely walking, but it was worth it!

For that day, i learned a lot more than 15+ years riding a bike and countless hours watching Youtube videos, so if anyone is in doubt - go on riding school, it is the BEST MOD EVER!

At the end, what was stopping me for progressing more(except the exhaustion) was the tires and the clip ons - i bought the Mille with Bridgestone Blattax BT16, but the trainer advised i need semi slicks and the high clip ons over the yoke was messing with my body position.

So my homework was to get descent tires and get the clip ons back at stock position.

Forgot to mention, that after the first track day, where i was smoked by every 600 on the straight,

i put the FR100 in. Now i understand that they passed my mainly because my bad corner exit speed, but little more grunt it always welcomed. Not sure if the bike is lot faster with it, but for sure the power is more linear and smooth.

I bought the bike with 520 conversion and 16/44 gearing.
Is yours 180/60 Supercorsa or it is another make? As far as i searched, the different manufacturers have difference in the real width of the tire.

i found the 3d model got eh gen 1 and started searching for someone to print it

here is the link

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3742217

A couple of local companies were asking 50-100 EURO to print it, which was too much for me to risk. A friend with Mille who has a 3d printer was going to print it, but he had issues with the printer....but then i found  a guy in FB who is starting a business and was doing 3d prints cheap.

He printed it for about 15 EURO including the delivery cost

Here is the result

I am not familiar with the 3d printing, but as far as i understood he is printing it using some kind of resin. He had available at the moment just this grey one with is quite hard, but more fragile and not so resistant to heat, but told me that he has some black resin that is more flexible and resistant to heat.

When drilling the holes for the screws that attach the stacks, there were some small parts that broke of the mounting points, but not so bad. So i ordered the stacks with the black resin too.

With the airbox seal and the stacks ready, i was doing final checks before putting the set up on the bike, then i noticed that i cut the top part of the box too much and it flexes when i try to tighten the seal and the seal can move which can cause air leak..... i had to find better ring to keep the seal in please.

I first bought a sheet of aluminum and started fabricating my onw ring, but as i mentioned i have very few tools, so it was quite hard and i did not wanted to pun something that ugly on the bike.

I searched the ebay in after a week i find this ring for reasonable price

 

Looking at the ring profile, it was not original intended for open air box, but to be used as spacer between top and bottom parts of the box and in this was increasing the volume. However it did the job to keep the seal in place.

Now i had to find a way to keep the filter in place and cover the top of it.

I cut a round piece from the air box for the top of the filter and the plan was to keep it in place using safety wire....at least as temporary solution to be able to install the set up on the bike.

First start with the stacks

and with the tank on

The Forza guy added that i should consider the collector mod and fr200 in the future(which i actually had in mind), because i will not be getting the correct fuel.

Some time ago, in parallel with the other mods, i was thinking about the AF modulators - those gadgets that connect to the air temp sensor and make the ECU think that the air is colder and in this was make the fueling richer. I got one such AFM cheap on ebay, but it was removed from Yamaha MT.
With some googling, i saw that the air temps sensors are not the same, but they have pretty similar output, so i decided to make some custom wiring and get it on the Mille. And now, with the open airbox and  more air into the engine, it was the time to put the AFM.

I cut the wires to the Air sensor and put waterproof connectors, then put another set of the same connectors on the AFM, so that if something on it fails, i can just unplug it.

Again, i was not able to do a test ride due to weather, but setting it at 5(as advised in the AFM instructions) may be made the bike idle cleaner or it was just a placebo.