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harriebird 31-Jan-2009 21:48

alternatively, if you're dinky like me, then a Citroen Dispatch is the cosiest van going.

with 2 sleeping bags just for me, 2 (yes 2!!) rollmats also just for me, my cosiest pyjamas and a couple of glasses of wine to knock me out for the night, well frankly a better night's sleep is hard to find without company :D and in my experience boys are very smelly on race weekends :eek: so that's not good.

Miss Riot 01-Feb-2009 09:30

And so we've managed to turn this thread from slipper clutch use, to which van is cosiest to sleep in and how smelly are boys during race weekends, lol! How did that happen?!

trouty 03-Feb-2009 11:29

slipper clutches?? pah! i reckon i can change down thru the monster box, blipping my way through, just as quick as someone with a slipper clutch.

paynep 03-Feb-2009 14:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by trouty
slipper clutches?? pah! i reckon i can change down thru the monster box, blipping my way through, just as quick as someone with a slipper clutch.


..cast your mind back to Cadwell 2007, 2nd Saturday race, lap 2, bottom of the mountain.....:ninja:

Chaz 03-Feb-2009 14:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by ali
I was top 5 and didn't run a slipper. As Paul has said Ducati put APTC 'semi-slipper' clutches in the later monsters. A couple of riders over the years have felt that these weren't progressive enough in their release so have tried fitting 'proper' slippers. I don't know anyone that has managed to get one working well and consistently, but I know a few who have removed them entirely and gone back to std.


I fitted one that I got work perfect! :)

Rattler 03-Feb-2009 16:02

Save your £'s and spend it on tracktime, that's what will make you faster in DD. Its the Indian, not the arrow. :rolleyes:

Matt-T28 03-Feb-2009 16:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by trouty
slipper clutches?? pah! i reckon i can change down thru the monster box, blipping my way through, just as quick as someone with a slipper clutch.


Try going back two or three gears at the same time and then letting the clutch lever out and see what happens :D

Its what a slipper allows you to do which means you have far more time to thinking about braking, they really are great things to have.

trouty 04-Feb-2009 14:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by paynep
..cast your mind back to Cadwell 2007, 2nd Saturday race, lap 2, bottom of the mountain.....:ninja:


i seem to recall you nearly ran into the back of me and crashed...

a bit like 2008 at the hairpin, where you ran into the back of me and i crashed...


;)

wossit gotta do with slippa clutches though?

paynep 04-Feb-2009 20:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by trouty
i seem to recall you nearly ran into the back of me and crashed...

a bit like 2008 at the hairpin, where you ran into the back of me and i crashed...


;)

wossit gotta do with slippa clutches though?


Slippers make one faster into slow corners? :D

trouty 05-Feb-2009 17:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by paynep
Slippers make one faster into slow corners? :D


as long as i get a pipe to go along with my slippers i'll be just fine :D


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