Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > bike set up

[Dominic Clegg]

Originally Posted by antonye

I used Racing Lines in Derby:
http://www.racinglines.co.uk/

(and I still have my old shock for sale...)

excelent people he real understood what i was talking about and he real thinks he can make a huge difference to my bike. he asked me to talk about the corners where i felt it was worse and for what didnt sound to much he could service it all and recomend any changes

[antonye]

You probably spoke to Clive - he's the main guy and former 250GP racer. He also does the ACU training days as well. Knows his stuff and his work is good, so I'm sure he'll sort you out.

[fil2]

Originally Posted by antonye

You probably spoke to Clive - he's the main guy and former 250GP racer. He also does the ACU training days as well. Knows his stuff and his work is good, so I'm sure he'll sort you out.

And you still got your shock for sale right...!


LOL

[antonye]

Borrocks, you're right!

[fil2]

Originally Posted by antonye

Borrocks, you're right!

wot is it again.?

[couchcommando]

'just ride it' is advice that is useless if you don't like how a bike feels. Regardless of set up it's how it feels to you that makes you go fast on it. This is why magazine or other peoples set ups are pointless. You need to figure out what is wrong and work from there. If you can't say what is wrong then no one can help. The only advice to give is return everything to standard, all settings and fork oil type and level. In standard trim bikes are made to suit a large percentage of riders. Once it's in this trim try and suss out what you don't like if anything about it.

[psychlist]

Originally Posted by couchcommando

'just ride it' is advice that is useless if you don't like how a bike feels. Regardless of set up it's how it feels to you that makes you go fast on it. This is why magazine or other peoples set ups are pointless. You need to figure out what is wrong and work from there. If you can't say what is wrong then no one can help. The only advice to give is return everything to standard, all settings and fork oil type and level. In standard trim bikes are made to suit a large percentage of riders. Once it's in this trim try and suss out what you don't like if anything about it.

Best advice I've seen here.
Working from a standard set up see what it is you dont like about it and work on one thing at a time. Dont change too much in one go or you wont know what it is thats giving you the changed feel of the bike, you may make a change to the front that upsets the rear or vice versa. The first thing I did to the 583 monster was set it onm max preload (to comenaste for the weight it had to carry), then I had to jack up the rear to max on the loop arm, and when that didnt give me the turn in I wanted I had an inch extra welded in to the bottom of the loop arm. I then found I was decking out the pegs real easy without hitting the edge of the tyres and I was using all the travel of the forks under max braking, so put a thick nut under the head of the spring retainers and it felt almost spot on. Sure I could have gone to a specialist and paid good money for a good job, but in the real world I didnt have that money to spend so worked with what I had. You can too, just work on one thing at a time and try it out.