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1299 New Bike - Panigale R

Discussion in 'Panigale' started by Furyous, Oct 12, 2019.

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  1. I love those exhausts and I've got the checa replica wheels on order too.
     
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  2. That looks amazing.
     
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  3. I rode my cousins panigale r today that he’s just bought for a song and I can concur that the suspenders are rock hard but then I suppose it is a track machine really. Didn’t think it was much faster than a normal panigale 1199. Reckon the engine spun up a bit quicker but that was about it. Exhaust sound lovely tho but I prefer his rsv4 tho which would be my next choice if I bother with another sports machine.
     
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  4. What did he pay - year and mileage :thinkingface:
     
  5. 6500 miles ish, 2013 plate paid £12800 for it, Private sale. needed tyres when he got it.
     
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  6. 2013 is a mk1 R.

    mk2 is totally different beast.
     
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  7. Would make a great track day bike but that suspension on Britain’s roads would be a fuckin nightmare
     
  8. I just had all mine softened up with lighter springs installed.
     
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  9. As above, not a Panigale R but a 1199R which is nearer to a blinged up S :thinkingface:
     
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  10. They sound nice though don’t they :):)
     
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  11. It’s funny that the consensus is stiff for track.

    when all the racers I know run the front as soft as they can get away with
     
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  12. For me, front standard settings are far too soft and bottom out. I can just dial it in enough with preload and clickers
    without having to put heavier springs in, but there ain't a lot of travel left when you have been chasing times hard.
    Its still as soft as I can go without bottoming.
    Don't know whether going up a spring rate and then easing everything back would make more sense, but I've had set up from
    2 pros, and neither recommended that route, so I have left the standard weight up to now.
     
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  13. Yeah @hyperdildo , that’s right, your mates bike’s shit :joy:
     
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  14. tough crowd
     
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  15. If your going to be a bear be a grizzly mate :upyeah::bucktooth:
     
  16. But that’s still stiffer than the road. Or you’d wallow and have the front bottom out. Also why suspension builders use at least one spring heavier for track than road.
     
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  17. I run a 9.5 spring in the front of mine and I’m a heavy bastard.
    Dave will tell you as well I’m about as late a braker as they come too

    I should be easily a 10.5 on paper. Easily
     
  18. Dobt you'd be running that on standard suspension tho. You have decent valving etc working too, whereas even the gen 1 panigale R wont
     
    #120 bradders, Dec 19, 2019
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