I think thats the std setting. You may get a better turn in raising them a little?? 10-15mm.
After the revalve, they also fit a proper o ring on the fork leg. After 3 sessions at Silverstone it sits at around 12mm from the bottom, so ive just a little of the full stroke left..
Ive got 25mm static sag on the front.

Mine came as standard with one ring showing but the geometry also does depend upon where the rear ride height is as well. I've been through the drop them down, raise them up route. For road riding the biggest complaint I've heard is that the bike feels long and doesn't tip in like a 9x6/8 so everyone steepens the bike a la Section 8, 20mm showing. I did this at first but since swapping to Pilot Powers have found its a different feel so think I can start lowering the rear and raising the front. The Pilot Power gives more front end confidence and seems to have a different profile and the rear hooks up better so you don't need the same squat. Rode them at the weekend for the first time and tonights job is to move rear back to 285 and lift front to 15mm :)

On the R and 05 models you've got a different swingarm, shock position and leverage ratios so its going to be different setups anyway.

JPM what setting do you have on the shock for compression and rebound?
And are you pleased with the feeling?

JPM, you're not far from KAIS in Atherton, give Andy a call, I'm sure he can sort you out quick style. I'm up there myself on Wednesday having my forks and shock serviced.

no one has mentioned the tyres, I've had tyres that left the factory wrong,
as you have the feedback from the tyres to push them that hard I dont think the setup is far from perfect. ps I'm new to ducatis so take this with a pinch of salt.:burn::burn:

Take it to Maxton - Will transform the bike.

Having said that I have a mate who can eat fireblades on his bog standard 883 HARLEY - yes its true.

Natural ability or the right training beats money any day.

Hello bikemad

Have missed your other posts

Southern Comfort would do me fine

Talking of tyres I remember a KH250 with cheng sin tyres that I could slide at both ends around local roundabouts and I was the slow man of the bunch - happy days.............

I'm no expert, but was the front ok before the rear was 'sorted', because you may be looking in entirely the wrong place, ie it's the rear that could be causing it. Bike suspension is a whole unit, including yourself. 'Sorting' one end only passes it to the other.

WeeJohnyB

Unreal....

That's exactly what I've just done. Changed to Pilot Powers after using the Section8 setup with Pilot Sports. After changing the tires something didn't feel right. So I've set the front end back to stand as a reference point and it feels better. I'm now running 285mm ride height and slighty more preload on the rear, but had considered reducing ride height back to standard.

It's nice to know that someone has experienced and done exactly what I have. Unfortunately I don't have the benefit of suspension experts in this neck of the woods, so more often that not trial and error.

After changing to Pilot Powers the front didn't feel right on the Section8 setting so I ****ed about with preload and dampening on the front and couldn't seem to get it right so reverted to factory setting for the front

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