Cruise Control for 2005 ST1300

I make do with a Go Cruise throttle lock. It's obviously not cruise control, but gives my hand a break when needed and doesn't slip. It's only around $20 vs over $1000 (depending on currency exchange rate). I'm too cheap to put that much into a 20 year old bike ;)
 
Let me throw this in as an aside.

I used both a Cramp Buster and GO Cruise before installing my MCCruise.

During NEW-STOC ('23?) my the speedometer sensor on my ST1300 failed. No big deal other than the MC Cruise uses that signal to compare road speed to crankshaft speed. For the remainder of that trip I was without a speedometer (though GPS filled in okay) and I lost my cruise control.

And where where those small innocuous pieces of plastic? Sitting in a box on a shelf in my garage. They live in a fairing pocket now.
 
STRider said:
Let me throw this in as an aside.

I used both a Cramp Buster and GO Cruise before installing my MCCruise.

During NEW-STOC ('23?) my the speedometer sensor on my ST1300 failed. No big deal other than the MC Cruise uses that signal to compare road speed to crankshaft speed. For the remainder of that trip I was without a speedometer (though GPS filled in okay) and I lost my cruise control.

And where where those small innocuous pieces of plastic? Sitting in a box on a shelf in my garage. They live in a fairing pocket now.
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I always carry my Catepillar o-rings and my GoCruise 'just in case' on long trips (my throttle grip has a 'crampbuster' built into it).
They don't take up much space, don't eat much and as I always say -
"I'd rather have it and not need it as to need it and not have it!". ;)
 
Uncle Phil said:
The good thing about the MCCruise is you are not cutting wires, fabbing parts or stuff like that - mine came with everything down to the zip ties.
Installation instructions are very detailed with lots of pictures for the particular bike.
Everything electrical pigtails in (at least for the ST1100) and for the ST1100 they have the CIU that deals with the cables (may be the same for the ST1300, IDK).
Diagnostics are built in if you ever have issues making it easy to resolve them.
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It does. The cables from the throttle feed into the CIU, and then a cable comes from it and connects to the throttle body. Very awesome bit of kit from MCCruise! And there's a discount code in the group buy section of the forum!
 
Josh_ST said:
It does. The cables from the throttle feed into the CIU, and then a cable comes from it and connects to the throttle body. Very awesome bit of kit from MCCruise! And there's a discount code in the group buy section of the forum!
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Then that is very similar to how the CIU works on the ST1100.
I had a hunch that it did but I've never seen the 'internals' of a ST1300 MCCruise 'in the wild'! :biggrin:
 
Andrew Shadow said:
I doubt it as well simply because it is so much easier and cheaper to develop a cruise control system for a throttle-by-wire set-up.
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I'm in the process of installing a Veridian CC on my NC750x. In a nutshell, all one does is open the connector between the throttle and the engine and plug in Veridian's two mating halves. The handlebar push buttons plug into another connector. A third connector goes to the ECU diagnostic port and a pigtail wire is spliced into the brake light wire. That's it. All plug and play.

Sort of. The devil is in the details - room is tight, instructions are not perfect, and there is no way on this sweet earth that anyone can duplicate the 15 minute Veridian youtube installation video the first time they try.
 
Uncle Phil said:
Expensive but excellent quality, support and installation instructions - MCCruise -

mccruise.com

Cruise Control for Honda ST1300 / ST1300A servo - Motorcycle Cruise Control

NOTE: – The optional low switch bracket (below handlebar) will not fit unless higher handlebars or bar risers are fitted. See the product brochure for more details. If your bike is fitted with (or you plan to fit) LED brake lights or a brake-light modulator, then a modification to the wiring...
mccruise.com mccruise.com

How expensive it is depends a lot on the value of the AUD vs USD.
I have them on all 4 of my ST1100s and they work as well as any 'factory' cruise out there.
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Listen to Uncle Phil, he has the experience and knows of what he says....

I had the Rostra CC - it was a nightmare! Never did work right, and I don't know how many times I had to pull the plastic to fiddle with it.
Totally fed up I ripped it out, restored the wiring I had to cut, and bought the MCruise.

Night and day! It works just as well as the CC in your car, installation is a breeze (NO wire cutting), excellent instructions and pre-made wiring supplied.
And if you do have an issue, email or call them, and they will call you back - from Australia !

If you are going to keep your ST, it's totally worth the $$., IMHO.
 
larryg said:
I had the Rostra CC - it was a nightmare! Never did work right, and I don't know how many times I had to pull the plastic to fiddle with it.
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I think a lot of that comes from the engine settings, which are actually about power-to-weight ratios.

f you tell it you have a high-output engine, it accelerates more gently. I got my Nighthawk's Rostra CC to operate as well as the factory CC in my Accord.
 
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