The Pesky Throttle
Digital Diagnostic Tools
This is the Pesky Throttle plan explanation, because a rider should know exactly what each level is before anybody asks him for a dollar. Start with Free.
Free costs nothing, and it is not a teaser. Open an account in your profile, your garage, and your bikes are saved, and they stay saved. Nobody loses their account here at any level, ever. And Free works. Every diagnostic on this site runs, and with the dongle plugged into your bike, it runs live on the real machine. But Free is more than tools. It is a presence here. Your member name, your profile, your garage, standing in the middle of a diagnostic family. Riders who know your name, know your bike, and show up when something breaks. Around here you are not a stranger with a problem. You are family with a bike. What Free does not keep is the record over time. Your latest state shows, but your sessions, your history, and your trends are not stored. That keeping is the next level.
Pro. Pro is the saving level. The tools start keeping your book, your tuning sessions, your readings across the season, a full history for one motorcycle, filed under its VIN number, the bike's own number, so the record belongs to the machine. That history is yours to keep, yours to export, yours to show.
Then Premium. Premium is everything in Pro, and then the level above saving. More than one bike in your garage. Guided step-by-step tuning recommendations, a mechanic's voice telling you which control to touch and which way to turn it. Ride Monitor, watching your battery and your temperatures while you ride. Trends that flag your bike drifting, leaner month by month, a battery sagging session by session before it strands you, and Share Live, so a mechanic or a friend across town watches your gauges in real time while you work.
There's one more level. Shop. Built for the independent garage. Everything unlimited, customer bikes filed under their own VIN numbers, printed reports with the shop's name on them. Shops talk to us directly.
Now, maybe none of that monthly business is for you. Can't commit? That's fine. There's a door with no subscription on it at all. Come and go as you please. You do not have to take the whole family of tools at once. Use the diagnostics individually, one test bench at a time. Pay as you go, for as little as a cup of coffee, with no commitment at all. It starts with the dongle, the one box that plugs into your bike and wakes these tools up. Buy the dongle, take a six-month subscription, and your first month is on us. Everything live, history saving, the full house, so you can feel what the record is worth, or skip the plan entirely. A day pass opens one diagnostic test bench with its history for 24 hours. Run it all day if you like. Got one bench you live by? A single diagnostic for a whole month still costs next to nothing. Some months you might run one test, and that month costs you next to nothing. Quiet months cost you nothing at all, because there is no plan ticking in the background, and nothing to cancel. The dongle is already in your garage, so you come back when the bike asks, not when a bill does.
The plans are simply the better bargain for riders who work often. The passes add up, and a plan never asks you to count them. Last, the honest part, and it matters. The dongle is in development, and until it exists, nobody is charged for any of this, and the real prices get set in ink before charging opens. What is open today is the family list, and joining it is free. Get on it, and you hear everything first. The dongle, the day accounts open, and the real prices before the public does. That is the whole deal, with nothing behind the curtain.
See Them Run
These are the diagnostic test benches the plan above is talking about. Flip a switch and the actual tool opens right here — running as a simulation, the same panel you'd see on the dashboard — so you can look each one over while you listen.
No Subscription
Don't want a subscription? You don't need one. No commitment — come and go as you please. The diagnostics don't have to come as a bundle: use them individually, one diagnostic test bench at a time, pay as you go, for next to nothing.
It starts with the dongle — the one box that plugs into your bike and wakes the tools up. A day pass opens one test bench for 24 hours; run it all day if you like. And when the dongle launches with a six-month subscription, your first month is free — everything turned on, the full house — so you can feel what the record is worth before the meter ever starts.
Some months you might run one test. Quiet months cost you nothing at all — there's no plan ticking in the background, and nothing to cancel. The dongle is already in your garage, waiting.
You come back when the bike asks, not when a bill does.
Become a Member
Member accounts aren't open yet — joining today puts you on the family list, and the family list gets first word the day accounts open. No password, no card, nothing to cancel: just your name on the list, and you're in line for everything — the dongle, the accounts, all of it.
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Running a shop? Join the same way — when the first word lands in your inbox, reply and say SHOP.
The Test Benches
All 11 diagnostic test benches live on the dashboard. The tools there run as simulations today, so you can flip the switches, run the panels, and see everything the platform has to offer — before the dongle lands.