Fort/shock settings - Ducati.ms

gary hyp · Feb 1st, 2010, 11:12 am

HI, I see the travel on my 2008 standard hyper is F-165mm R-141mm. That being said and hoping to set the rider sag to 33% of travel (25% for track days) At 33% of travel the forks rider sag =54.4mm and the shocks rider sag =46.5mm.
Do these #'s sound about right??? and what's the chances of reaching that goal with a 190 lbs. rider / bike is still in stock trim..

johnchypermotard · Feb 1st, 2010, 12:26 pm

when i was a child, my fort was set up in the tree behind our house.

PedroHM · Feb 1st, 2010, 3:41 pm

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Originally Posted by johnchypermotard

when i was a child, my fort was set up in the tree behind our house.

yes, but did you have to search for that to find it?

Decreasing Dave · Feb 2nd, 2010, 1:54 am

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Originally Posted by PedroHM

yes, but did you have to search for that to find it?

He's old, so there was probably no function for that then.

....but there is now.....

gary hyp · Feb 2nd, 2010, 5:22 pm

Now that I have spelled fork , do you have anything to say about the settings??????????????

DucatiIndianapolis · Feb 2nd, 2010, 6:41 pm

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Originally Posted by gary hyp

HI, I see the travel on my 2008 standard hyper is F-165mm R-141mm. That being said and hoping to set the rider sag to 33% of travel (25% for track days) At 33% of travel the forks rider sag =54.4mm and the shocks rider sag =46.5mm.
Do these #'s sound about right??? and what's the chances of reaching that goal with a 190 lbs. rider / bike is still in stock trim..

Gary,
Here is a bit from an article I wrote a few years ago when the hyper came out. I'll have to look up our clicker settings if you would like.

The tires hadn’t really picked up any heat in the truckbed so I took it relatively easy on the first of a thousand turns that lay ahead. While we had measured the sag last week at the shop, I was still searching for a good baseline. With 165mm of travel up front and 141mm out back, I wasn’t going to plug in the standard superbike numbers. Using the 1/3 rule the front would measure 55mm and the rear 47. The bike was close to this at 53 front and 46 rear. I left the sag where we measured and I set the clickers to what I thought would offer a good platform for spirited sportriding. I had set the tire pressures on the Perelli Diablo 3’s at 32front and 32 rear. After the first set of turns I was getting some good initial feedback and the tires were getting warm and grippy.

The great thing about getting some good initial feedback is that it clears you for the next level of riding. The next level is in part dependent on which level you started at in the first place, and I had already had some seat time on the motard including several laps at Gingerman raceway two weeks prior. On this ride I wasn’t 3 miles down the road before I scrapped the toeslider on my boat in a tight left hander. The motard was now sticking like glue. The thrust of the 1100 motor out of the turns was very impressive. I want to use words like ‘awesome’ and ‘incredible’ to describe the motor, so I am. I’ve ridden almost every Ducati 2 valve motor from the 1970’s on and this 1100 motor delivers the goods. I was pulling power wheelies in fourth gear over the rises in the asphalt. On my first short test earlier in August the bike tried to wheelie over backwards in fifth at the top of a massive hill on route 58. Check the video clip of Monday’s ride and you will see no less than 7 power wheelies in less than 2 minutes of tape. There are a couple of spots on the road where I had to let off before I wheelied right through the turn. In true motard style, I felt like I was riding a fire road on my Husqvarna 610 in Michigan’s UP.