Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > 583 Gearing Question

[Chris Wood]

Same gearing all year....94' 600ss - 15 / 40.

Still able to pull 9500 at Assen on the straight bits...

I'm not convinced that changing the ratio, gives you that much benefit on the 583's.

Hair balls...

[fil2]

i have also run the same gearing all year that suprised me.....did not pull top At Assen....will i did but it just went slower LOL....but due to that light side wind we had..???....

other than that the same all year which has suprised me....

Dog balls.?

[Murray Mint]

Anyone got some spare balls?

[WeeJohnyB]

How likely are you to reach max speed and for how long? Unlikely? Certainly on the CB I find that I have put a 42 on and left it there - you need drive out of corners, not top speed? The only issue might be how a particular sprocket sets you up for individual corners.

WeeJohnyB

[Chris Wood]

Bowling balls...

[fil2]

this is getting silly......


" moth balls "

[skidlids]

As I lack some of the skilll of you younger guys I have to look at getting the bike to do most of the work for me which in part means changing the gearing to suit my style to the track

Oulton, I started with 15/42 and then changed to 15/43....lots better

Castle Combe....15/41

Brands 15/42 (dry) 15/43 (wet)

Cadwell same as Brands 15/42 in the dry

Donington dry I would use 15/42 as per Cadwell and Brands

Castle Combe has no hills to speak of so will pull the higher gearing

It wasn't the hill at Oulton that made me lower the gearing, it was places like Lakeside where I found I was holding it in fourth and over reving rather than hooking 5th for a few seconds in the first race, in the second race with the lower gearing I made far more use of 5th gear

[AK]

and that was with a pre 98 ss wasnt it skids?

[Zimbo16]

Originally Posted by AK

and that was with a pre 98 ss wasnt it skids?

. . . with an early Monster engine I believe???

Anyway, I ran 15/46 gearing at Cadwell, Castle Doom and Oulton, CC could have gone down one on the back I reckon as it was revving out early on the straight, that's '99 M600.

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by AK

and that was with a pre 98 ss wasnt it skids?

Yep pre 98 SS and as Zimbo says its a Monster engine circa 1996 so NOT one of the real early ones

The standard gearing for my bike as a 600SS was 15/41 and the gearing that would have been standard on the unfaired Monster that the engine came from would have been 15/43