Comments on: Ducati 1199 Panigale Test Reports Start to Roll In: Video of Troy Bayliss Lapping Yas Marina (Bike Reports) (News)

By: Norm G.

Norm G. — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:00:31 +0000

re: “First time I’ve seen the liquids bouncing around at speed.”

wait, did somebody say something about “liquids bouncing around at speed”…?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACK09MLgaY&feature=related

By: Norm G.

Norm G. — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:49:49 +0000

sweet vindication perhaps for preziosi and his frameless design after the “carbon debacle” in grandprix. admittedly (not that ducati would show this), i was waiting for a front tuck that never came. good stuff.

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By: mudnducs

mudnducs — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:54:03 +0000

Nice bike, great rider….the buildings at the track look like something from the Jetsons.

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By: Norm G.

Norm G. — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:21:24 +0000

re: “It’s beautiful but most of America cannot come close to affording it.”

a few years back when the desmosedici came out they sold something like 20+ in just texas alone. this at nearly 4x the price, so quite the opposite, america’s rich.

re: “We need to ride to work and to the store and the post office and the train station and so on.”

buy a car.

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By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:15:00 +0000

Yeah, good point, Dave. It’s a nice looking machine for sure. Interesting that Ducati is for sale. Could get away from the Ducati vision with new owners. I hate the idea of people just pumping money into something without getting their hands dirty. If you want to buy it you should have to spend some time in the factory. Hands on. Otherwise you just try to dictate revenue from afar and you as an owner are too far removed from the vision of what Ducati means. Anyway, I like the Streetfighter 848 even more than the Monster. Sat on both.

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By: Marcos

Marcos — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:47 +0000

Actually not measurement tools, not in this bike. These are electronically adjusted front and rear suspensions on teh S version and up. They call it DES (Ducati Electronic Suspension) to be set up through the screen.

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By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:01:37 +0000

They’re not going after the majority with this piece. The Monster line is meant to cover that. Ducati never meant to compete directly with the Japanese makes, they have been a premium maker for a long time. That said, there’s plenty of buyers in America, just not likely you and me.

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By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:17:59 +0000

Actaully, that is telemetry from the forks(and rear shock as well) that show the fork reaction to speed, distance, compression rate, rebound, etc. The are measurement tools used to help fine tune the various fork and shock adjustments for a given track under specific weather and temp conditions.

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By: XDucRider

XDucRider — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:16:57 +0000

I think I need a cigarette after watching that..

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By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:15:14 +0000

Well, yes, but when he slid the bike into the corner that’s referred to as “backing it in”. When the front wheel was really turned over to the right that was to help control the slide so that he didn’t high side. You never turn the wheel to go with the corner, in this case to the left. You counter steer every corner whether you realize it or not. If you turn the bars to the left to go with the corner you will tuck the front unless it is at a slow speed corner on the street like at an intersection.

Keith Code’s “Twist of the Wrist II” goes a lot more in depth about counter steering if you would like a better example.

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