After considering all of the options including setting up the OE slipper I decided - and I have been toing an froing on this for months - to go for this this option: https://www.kbike.it/lang_EN/scheda.php?annoid=2118&id=762
Do it! I put a 48T slipper clutch on my 1098 a few months ago its been the best thing I have ever done.
OK so is the 4 spring, five spring or six spring the one most liked by the forum? Ideally posters can tell us why they prefer one over another? Also Spider spring or not?
Can of worms, that’s what you have just opened. Like asking your mum to pick a girlfriend for you. Andy
OK so using your analogy, I would like to know which slipper clutch is the equivalent of a slim woman with large breasts!
Mine came with 4, that's how they raced it in the Norwegian Superbike Championship, I guess it's lighter and it works still It was a Ducati Corse backed team so not sure if these were readily available at the time. Springs are dated March 2010 which is the year it won the Championship. 4
Is four springs not the heaviest as all the pressure is on fewer springs, so harder to compress? Doesn't the four spring also allow the rear wheel to lock for bump starts - and therefore important for racing? I don't know, and finding rational arguements for or against any particular version doesn't appear too easy...
Your clutch is from an era when the Ducati was started by inserting two prongs into those two holes. Your springs will be colour coded which denotes the compression and gives you your adjustment. Andy
How simple do you want it ? The Ducati slipper introduced on the 748R has a steel basket and centre which are harder wearing than the later slipper clutches on the 1098 and on where the basket and centre are hard anodised aluminium. The 748R clutch has 6 springs and a very basic 3 ramp (no balls) system. The later clutch went to 6 spring, 6 ramp (with balls) system. There are several aftermarket variations on a theme of which the STM is one. I like the basic 748R version because I find it very easy to set up and it works. I’m not that enamoured of the 1098R clutch because I find it more difficult to set up but it works. In the near future I’ll be able to pass comment on the latest generation of the STM in the V4 but I’m expecting it to be ‘it’s new’ difficult but hoping it’ll be as awesome as the rest of the V4. Andy
I did read up on them - I'm not one to just splash the dosh about. Here is one read which also talks about the number of springs issue: https://bitsabike.blogspot.com/2018/02/kbike-slipper-clutch-install.html
