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Old 22-Oct-2003, 12:14
Felix Felix is offline
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After having just had a lowside at Oulton Park, I now tend to agree with 998Addict. Ducati's do crash pretty well without bungs. In my experience, the things most at risk are pegs, levers, the clutch, and the waterpump. The factory race bikes have folding levers and pegs, which cost the earth. Clutch and water pump are best protected by reinforcing the fairing at those points with kevlar and epoxy resin. This stuff survives the abrasion pretty well. Most fibre glass panels disintegrate on abrasion. I can speak from experience here as my side panels survived pretty well. They were already kevlar reinforced. The seat unit fared much worse. It was a Vimori fibre glass piece, that I hadn't reinforced yet. I will do now before getting it repainted. It pretty easy to do. I bought the supplies here:
CFS fibre glass supplies

Well worth it my opinion as it significantly enhances the crash worthyness of plain fibre glass panels.
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