Nanny slapped my hand?

[schnauzermom]

First day of 2 wk trip.....an hour from home on Mt. Pass.........LIMP MODE!!! Never happend before. New 2011 RTS SE5 1300 miles on it. Said DPS. I'm thinking bad throttle body cause that's all I read about on here. But took spyder lovers advice, turned off, pulled key, walked away. Called our spyder tech back home, he said could be 1 of 100 different thing DPS could be but said DPS means Dynamic Power Steering, he thought I maybe was putting too much pressure on handle bars through curves and nanny thought I was trying to turn left but wasn't. Did not throw any codes. So, started the bike back up, took off, no more problems. I've become very light handed on the bars on the twisters. So, nanny just decided to slap my hand. Side note, good thing we did stop because my hubby's air suspension on his HD Road Glide was done to zero and he thought his bike was handling funny. Also, 100 degrees did not feel right foot abnormally hot, cud be used to riding hot Harley's. So day 2 on to Kalispell and Glacier Park.

 

[HollyH]

Glad it wasn't anything major! have a safe trip!

 

[Utah Geezer]

Well

All's well that ends well. Happy Trails!!!

 

[NancysToy]

Actually, it wasn't Miss Nanny. Limp mode is something different, that happens in response to a fault with the machine. The VSS, or nanny, is a system that helps you maintain control under what it perceives as marginal conditions. The Vehicle Stability System includes traction control, ABS braking, and steering and yaw sensors that help it to try to keep your steering line in certain conditions, or cut back the engine if the Spyder approaches the point of instability.

What you probably experienced was a mismatch of the steering angle sensor and steering torque sensor. This can happen in a strong wind or a long sweeper, when you are constantly applying steady steering pressure in one direction for an extended period. The system times out, thinking a sensor has failed or is miscalibrated, and limp mode occurs. If this happens often, or repeatedly in one direction but not the other, you might wish to have the steering sensors zeroed. A slight miscalibration makes the system more sensitive, so it can trigger too often sometimes.

Your dealer can probably find the fault codes via BUDS, to see exactly what happened.