VSS / Nanny . . . . what's the difference ?

[Spyder Cat]

Had a great ride today but had something happen that has never happened before. I'm still trying to figure out what happened. :helpsmilie:

I was on the RT-SE5 enjoying one of my favorite backroads, doing about 40 and at the point in a gradual left corner where road crossed the river, the left front wheel hit something (pot hole or some sort of transition line between road & bridge) (it was in the shade and I obviously missed seeing it). There was a big bump when the left wheel hit it. Suddenly, the power to the front left wheel just went away, and the right wheel was in control, causing the Spyder to oversteer to the left, and it felt like it was going to put me into a slide to the right and put me in the gravel, and the raised sidewalk and short wall on the side of the bridge. (If I had hit the wall, me and the Spyder would probably have gone for a quick swim.) :yikes: Thankfully, one of my (tired) angels pushed the left handbar forward a bit and it straightened right out.

I think that's what happened. It all happened so quickly, I'm sure there are a dozen ways to describe it more precisely. :hun:

I am well acquainted with the nanny as there are a couple of corners near our place where nanny has made herself known many, many times. But the corner at the bridge today was much less drastic, and the feeling was very different than I'm accustomed to when nanny has engaged before.

I've never felt anything like this before even when we've run the tight twisties in the canyon, and even lifted a wheel.

I'm just wondering if it was the VSS??? or a combination of VSS/nanny???
I sure don't want to re-create the experience .... I just want to understand what happened. :helpsmilie::dontknow:

 

[NancysToy]

.....or a combination of VSS/nanny???.....

Different names for the same thing. Remember that the VSS can not only cut back the engine output to try to save your fanny, but it can also apply the brakes individually to try to maintain your steering line. It won't steer the machine, like your angel did, but reactions to the road surface and the VSS/Nanny intervention can make the handlebars respond to the road surface differently, and seem to steer.

 

[Bob Denman]

I think that the Nanny (or VSS) can apply brakes to each wheel individually. This could certainly do exactly what Scotty described...

 

[Spyder Cat]

Different names for the same thing.

that's kinda what i thought.
Remember that the VSS can not only cut back the engine output to try to save your fanny, but it can also apply the brakes individually to try to maintain your steering line.
I didn't know that. That may have been what might have happened.
Thanks for the input. The Spyder is such an amazing feat of engineering.
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[MickeyFisher]

I experienced it for the first time Saturday, on the Tail of the Dragon. About ten times, :roflblack: It kind of freaked me out the first time, but then I got used to it. It is pretty amazing!

 

[pitbull]

mine kicked in 318 times on the way down and 318 times on the way back:thumbup:........

 

[MickeyFisher]

mine kicked in 318 times on the way down and 318 times on the way back:thumbup:........

haha, i knew i wasn't doing it right!!:roflblack:

(btw - can't believe i didn't get to meet you at either the BBQ or the event. i asked around a couple of times, but you were always out of sight. making a trip to MO in August, so i'll definitely be stopping in!)