Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 998 / 996 / 916 / 748 > Rear ride height adjustment

[ben998]

Hello All,
Has anyone adjusted the rear ride height on their roadbike? Im thinking of having a bit of a play with the ride height on my 998 and just wondered if anyone else has tried it and what they thought of the results.

cheers,
Ben

[nelly]

As a general rule of thumb, and it is just that, an extra two turns of the adjuster bar usually satisfies most.
the position of the rear hub will have an effect, but for starters 2turns seems to sort it out.

[skidlids]

One of the first things I did was raise the rear ride height, transformed the bike, up until then I wasn't totaly impressed with its handling. Now running a rear ride height of 245mm on the road bike and a couple of mm more on the race bike.

[Totto]

Running 245 here as recomended by JHP

[ben998]

Thanks for the replies. Looks as though 245mm rear ride height would be a good starting point, but measuring from where to where, a vertical line from the middle of the axle to the underside of the exhaust, or somewhere else?

cheers,
Ben

[ben998]

Theres a special ride height measuring tool? Not just some string and a tape measure?? Im in Hertfordshire, about 10 mins north of Hertford.
Having thought about it a bit more, 245mm ride height cannot be vertically from the rear axle to under the cans - it would be like riding a chopper with front out and the back really low, serious handling issues, even if it could be lowered that much, which I doubt.

Or go and see Skidlids when he's track daying or racing near you, he has the tool and set mine for me at Rockingham, made loads of difference even when you're as crap a rider as me !!!!!!

Still I'm not bad on a bike !!!!

[skidlids]

If you do a search on the old message board you will find the original information that linked measurements I took with my ride height tool to those taken betwwen the hub and a point on the sub frame

[Rattler]

....what are you trying to achieve with the change of ride height?

I assume you want to raise it to increase turn-in speed?

If so, I wouldn't initially worry too much about what measurement the ride height actually is at this stage, (unless its way out), but just try rotating the tie bar a couple of turns to raise the rideheight and see how that feels.

If it feels better - then thats great, if not keep trying it!!

If the fast turn in is preffered, you can then look at changing the rake angle at the front end.

The ride height adjustment is pretty easy, just remember that one of the ends of the tie bar has a reverse thread, get yourself a couple of spanners and your sorted!!!

Just remember to count how many turns you make so you can always put it back afterwards.
Good luck.
Tim

[skidlids]

try this link

http://www.ducatisportingclub.com/co...id=28&tid=5035