Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Slipper Clutches and deep pockets

[harriebird]

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 and in my experience boys are very smelly on race weekends so that's not good.

[Miss Riot]

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]

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]

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.....

[Chaz]

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]

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

[Matt-T28]

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

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]

Originally Posted by paynep

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

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]

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?

[trouty]

Originally Posted by paynep

Slippers make one faster into slow corners?

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