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Hey guys,
Did some searching on this forum and on the Googs, and still felt like I needed to ask about the vibes on my ds1000 ss. It's an 06, about 5k miles on it. Previous owner claims all the services were done, and the bike is in immaculate condition so I've got no reason to believe he didn't. Here's what I'm feeling, more or less...
At 4-6k rpm she vibes quite a bit. If I lay off the throttle at 6ish she smooths out somewhat, but get on the throttle again and there's mirror-blurring vibe. If I open it up and flog her a little, there's no shortage of vibes... my hands and even my arms get kind of numb. This is riding harder, pushing rpms to the high end before shifting. Oh yeah, and 6th gear hates if I'm under 6k rpm. Doesn't chug, per se, but certainly smooths out quite a bit once I'm higher up in the range. Still vibes noticeably though.
I've had many twins: a monster 620, an RC51, and even an old Buell xb9, so I'm no stranger to twins and vibes. I just feel like it should maybe be smoother? Am I crazy? I'm also coming off a late-model RSV4 that was buttery smooth to a fault so maybe my expectations are off. I don't have another SS nearby to 'compare', so I suppose I just want some kind of verification that these motors do have a pretty vibey profile and that's what I gotta learn to live with. I've read about countless possible sources for vibration on these motors; I feel like I'm doing the "I'm sick so I'm gonna check on webMD and omfg I'm dying of a rare african disease..." thing.
It doesn't have bar-ends or anything (seems to have stock plastic plugs but no bar-ends), so that's an option I can probably explore to mitigate the vibes. Any advice, thoughts, encouragement, etc would be much appreciated! I'm pretty anxious about owning another duc, since my last one was a bit unreliable and kind of a pain in the butt.
On a bit of an aside (but I don't want to fire up another thread about it), when I go to full lock to either side my hand doesn't fit between the grip and the mirror. Is this some kind of ducati thing? Like, only plebes make u-turns, why would you ever go to full lock?
Anyway, thank you all in advance - I hope to become a contributor rather than just a consumer in this community once I've wrapped my head around this bike and her quirks.
Did some searching on this forum and on the Googs, and still felt like I needed to ask about the vibes on my ds1000 ss. It's an 06, about 5k miles on it. Previous owner claims all the services were done, and the bike is in immaculate condition so I've got no reason to believe he didn't. Here's what I'm feeling, more or less...
At 4-6k rpm she vibes quite a bit. If I lay off the throttle at 6ish she smooths out somewhat, but get on the throttle again and there's mirror-blurring vibe. If I open it up and flog her a little, there's no shortage of vibes... my hands and even my arms get kind of numb. This is riding harder, pushing rpms to the high end before shifting. Oh yeah, and 6th gear hates if I'm under 6k rpm. Doesn't chug, per se, but certainly smooths out quite a bit once I'm higher up in the range. Still vibes noticeably though.
I've had many twins: a monster 620, an RC51, and even an old Buell xb9, so I'm no stranger to twins and vibes. I just feel like it should maybe be smoother? Am I crazy? I'm also coming off a late-model RSV4 that was buttery smooth to a fault so maybe my expectations are off. I don't have another SS nearby to 'compare', so I suppose I just want some kind of verification that these motors do have a pretty vibey profile and that's what I gotta learn to live with. I've read about countless possible sources for vibration on these motors; I feel like I'm doing the "I'm sick so I'm gonna check on webMD and omfg I'm dying of a rare african disease..." thing.
It doesn't have bar-ends or anything (seems to have stock plastic plugs but no bar-ends), so that's an option I can probably explore to mitigate the vibes. Any advice, thoughts, encouragement, etc would be much appreciated! I'm pretty anxious about owning another duc, since my last one was a bit unreliable and kind of a pain in the butt.
On a bit of an aside (but I don't want to fire up another thread about it), when I go to full lock to either side my hand doesn't fit between the grip and the mirror. Is this some kind of ducati thing? Like, only plebes make u-turns, why would you ever go to full lock?
Anyway, thank you all in advance - I hope to become a contributor rather than just a consumer in this community once I've wrapped my head around this bike and her quirks.