Some sharper pads in the brakes for track and you'll prob be fine unless you are proper fast. Just done 3 days at Almeria on my 848 and it didn't miss a beat it felt rock solid and very much enjoyed chasing down the s1000rr's / hp4's through the corners and got 161mph on the back straight so you won't be disappointed in it at all. Good price that as well.........
Those brakes, with a good mc and race pads, are more than enough. And imho give kore feel than the monoblocks which give lots of bite But slipper clutch a must
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Dave, Well done sir, that is a nice bit of kit. I have exactly the same solution as you know as the D16 is unusable in the UK. My 848 is a really nice track bike, and if you drop it, parts are readily available and cheap. Hell you can replace an engine if it blows for less than the cost of a rearset on the Desmo! That's a nice build. I have a sigma wet slipper in mine FWIW and it's excellent. Has lasted ages too. I saw that one advertised recently. I wish I had looked for an 848 track bike before I converted mine - as it used to be my road bike and it was a good road bike. Had I looked, I would have kept that for the road and bought a new one for not much more than it cost to covert it! Oops...... Maybe have to get an 899 challenge bike next year
The Sigma slack bladders sold me is top draw...You fit it and forget it! I put mine in myself with some excellent tech support from Sigma....:Bookworm:
thanks for all the slipper clutch info, yet another thing to add to the list ! I think the 2 things I missed the most on track was the slipper and a quick action throttle.
Here are some more pictures of loveliness. Being an old Ducatisti.co.uk stalwart however, I realise that I should have haggled hard with sammytt and got him to throw in the wheelie bin as part of the deal. Missed opportunity :Arghh:
Race pads fitted,and they work very well,agree with the slipper i am not that fast and even i locked the rear up a few times,it was on the to do list
