Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Daft handlebars question

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Originally Posted by bradders

thats how they are as standard. As a larger chap I still preferred the lower bars; otherwsie its like your head is a foot below your arm, especially in fast corners. Lacked a bit of front end feel too...which was great on that bike...alas the rear wasnt Certainy never worried me and got nearly off the front tyre without any problems.

It has a 916 shock shoe horned in there tho, and its very front bias, you could raise the front a tad

Hmmm, thanks for the replies so far.

I actually dropped the front through the yokes a little at Donington, after Wayne pointed out that it was sitting all wrong, which helped with turn in and holding a line.
Then I had it set up by Pete Clifford at Cadwell, which at least made it look right and it gave more feedback in the turn.

At Snetterton at the last round, it felt pretty good but would give no warning before it just let go or dumped me on my arse.

Both crashes were front end, one was my fault for asking too much of a cold tyre, but the other was one of those, " do the same as every other lap but this time the bike says No " scenarios.

Is it the 916 shock length ?
Does anyone else run one ?

I also race an R6 which is very front biased and I trail a lot of brake to apex, so maybe I should just alter my style and man up for the Ducati experience ?

I think I've opened up a big can of worms here, but ultimately I don't want to paper over the cracks by slapping wide bars on, if there's a fundamental suspension issue to address.

It would be nice to finish a few more races next season !