Read this thread with interest. So sorry to hear about your mishap; hope you get it sorted soon. In that pic on the roadside, it looks the most beautiful bike. I've never owned a 996, but still have my second 748. I have wondered how they would be in traffic, and imagine the gearing should be lowered a bit.
Thanks, I personally think the 998s is one of the nicest looking bikes in my opinion. It will look even better when I'm finished with it. I will get it fixed. I live in a rural area so traffic isn't a massive issue. Dropping the front sprocket size had definitely helped with making it more usable when riding at lower speeds.
Did you ever get your bike re-mapped? If you still need it doing give Sam a ring at Motohub in Stoke, he does a ride in ride out mapping service on the dyno or you can leave the bike and collect when done. Either way it usually takes a full day but you will notice the benefits.
Well that was a long 4 and a half years since I last posted. House renovation, moving to a garageless house, building a new garage, cars taking my time and money, painters taking forever to paint parts, etc, etc. I'm back on a mission to get this bike back together and on the road this year. In the last month I have got some of my parts back from the painter Really happy with how the parts have come out. The carbon parts look brilliant now with a coat of lacquer on them. While I had some time off over Christmas and new year. I stripped the exhaust and polished it. It took me a couple days to get it done but was worth it for the end result. I then started to strip the bike down to clean it. I wanted to remover the swingarm bolt to clean it and lubricate it. I made two stands up the bolt to the foot peg mounts. The swingarm bolt and lower shock bolt came out no problem. While I had the swingarm out I decided to try cleaning the engine casing. A combination of degrease, alloy wheel cleaner, green scuff pads and WD40 did the job. I then I used some silver paste on the swingarm bolt to keep it easily removable in the future and started putting the bike back together. The castings cleaned up really well. Wish I had photos of how it looked before. I'm going to swap out fuel filter, in tank fuel hoses, oil and tyres. The bike has been sitting, so I'm going to do the belts. Are exactfit still the belts to go for or should I get a set of belts from Ducati? Just finished painting, laying flooring and fitting 2 post ramp to my garage. So hopefully i will get the bike moved out so I have more space.
