Ta
Overpriced under performing and poorly designed. At least, up until the 1098. I have no experience thereafter.Originally Posted by Banditbandit
The race bike released in tiny numbers for homologation has a dry clutch.
Guzzi is a single plate dry clutch like a car.
L-Plate Rider
I couldn't own a Ducati without a dry clutch, love the rattle sound, sounds like it's about to fall to pieces, everyone thinks something's wrong with it. The sound goes away past 2,000 rpm.
"channellling the Pleideans"
I saw a 72 with HEAVY gold metalflake that looked custom. Nope, factory. It was fucking cool and I want one.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
So when are they going to pull their fork angle in to something useful?
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Ta
I took a streetbob for a thrash over the hill. Steering is fine.
"channellling the Pleideans"
not all bikes are racebikes. that took me a long time to learn. It is perfectly acceptable and valid and reasonable to have a motorcycle that isnt a racebike. Basically as long as it tickles your taint*, its all good.
*admit it, we all love that shit.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
Geriatric hoon
Yes and
No. That's just the Termignonis inflicting irreparable hearing damage.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Anarchic Wild Child
The one I rode was Gold metalflake - from Thunderbike ... terrible .... I don't want one - ever
The salesman was telling me all the things that I could do with it - like new springs and damping in the forks, new rear suspension - I though 'what a waste of money' - for $20grand I want a bike that works - not one that needs another $20grand spent on it just to make it rideable
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
"channellling the Pleideans"
that bike is just for looking at yourself in shop windows...... Any suspension upgrade would be around $2000 - $2500 - if it needed it.
a bike like that all it needs is the exhausts raped a bit and the intake opened up.
it should have round 70hp and a flat torque curve. Perfect for blapping round town on.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
Forum whore
Sure are. I suspect it has nothing to do with being a 'better' clutch but a lot to do with noise standards - if retained Ducati would need to muffle the crap out of their exhausts to meet new noise regulations due to clutch noise. Or enclose a dry clutch in a heavy duty cover to shut it up, which would then heat up, which would then .....
Forum whore
Ha - valid point, I notice the dry clutch guys tend to have very loud pipes.
I've Termis on my Streetfighter - I've modified the DB killers in them (as it chopped them in half .... just the right sound I'm after without being obnoxious like a open muffler.
Well in my opinion............
Ta
Perhaps. It might also be the fact that the dry clutch is fucking stupid and crap on a road bike. They wear at least three times faster than a wet clutch. I'm talking about the basket. Fibres and steels are dependent of how much rain you let on it.
They are nothing more than a fucking gimmick.
Yet cock smokers who own them wank on about them. Say they like the noise. Bullshit they fucken do. Why would anyone like a sound that very closely resembles a motor about to shit itself?
Fully qualified Sifter.
Can't agree with that bit. I loved the sound of my RS250's dry clutch. But it didn't sound like it was shitting it's self.
Ta
Exactly. But no Ducati clutch sounds nice like that. They sound like a bike running without any big end bearings installed
Forum whore
Big steel paint tin full of roofing nails being shaken hard.
Spoils a otherwise sweet sounding engine.
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