1200 Moving From A 2010 To Twin Spark..thoughts?

My missus wanted an island in the kitchen, so I bought a pool table
We had a cover for it when it needed to be a worktop / table. Got away with that for a few years before I had to give in.

No need to move the wall mate, just wheel a few tool chests and a workmate in there, see how you get on
It'll be closer to the kettle too, plus you can use the dish washer for bike parts, and the sink too

 

thats not poncy, thats necessity

 

Not quite... My QDs will be up for sale soon (was getting the end caps powder coated black), and my Skyhook Touring S is for sale... Not a PP though...

 

See Veetwin's post above...

He's a mate of mine - and a much better rider than me - so maybe you should pay more attention to him. However, having had a 2012 Touring for 2 years and 23k miles and then had a demo 2014 Skyhook version for a week, ahead of a planned change, I opted to keep the 2012 version.

I disagree with the view that the Skyhook is better - I just thought it was harsh and lacked all the subtlety of the Ohlins set-up. I also thought that the twin-spark head failed to address the poor slow-speed running; all it did was add more oomph - not something the bike particularly needed! Finally, whilst the wind protection is poor on a stock 2012 bike it's positively appalling on the new bikes.

Still, maybe now Audi will let Ducati finally put a bike in a wind-tunnel and learn something about aerodynamics for riders who aren't midgets!

 

The big difference is the faster you go better the SH gets. Ohlins is an 'average' based fork, ie you set it up for how you want most of the time, where SH being adaptive does just that: changes to the circumstamces. I find it works best at fast sweeping type turns where you have really bumpy surface, it tracks and just grips, where the non adaptive stuff can only work within the average range.

I only use mine in Touring, almost never in sport, or urban if in town a bit and filtering

I'll tell you how much of a convert I am: if I were to go and buy a new sports bike right now, it would be the HP4 because it has similar adaptive suspension.

 

For £15750 you can have mine with full termi and heated grips,venture shield,3600 miles,26/04/13,3rd year warranty.

 

Nope, not needed to, haven't measured the sag on the front of mine but it behaves perfectly and never has any settling issues. Plus, if I make the front firmer it will raise the ride height a little: last thing I need.

 

I agree with Bradders the Skyhook does get better with a bit of progress, however you can still catch it out. Fast sweeping bends with a great surface in France this year and in Touring mode the back end was wallowing a bit, tried the same section of road (several times!) again and it Sport mode it was just fine.
I have checked the preload on mine and it was just fine for a 12st rider. I now rate the Sachs over Ohlins on the MultiStrada but it took a few weeks to get my head round what it was doing. I still think that the feedback from the Ohlins is better than the Sachs but once you trust the Sachs / Skyhook set up it is a better solution. IMO

 

Quote by ACT 'The reason I'm so sure of that percentage is that I've not met a single skyhook rider that even knew that they needed to adjust the front pre-load.'

ACT, any tips on how to get the front pre-load right then? Did you set it up on a sag measurement and if so what did you go for? Total travel is given as 170mm in the specs so should I set it at about 57mm sag (one third total)? And confirm clockwise on the adjuster nut to increase pre-load? Thanks

 

didn't realise you had a video on the bike

 

Many Congrats, that's a vintage year!

When you set the pre-load let me know what you did. (I am about 13st in kit).

Thanks