To be honest I’m not sure why so many people poopoo on the electronic suspension.
Do people just prefer turning nuts with wrenches instead of an electronic servo??
And as for the dynamic adjustment what’s so bad about having that making adjustments in milliseconds while driving on the variable terrain of public roads?
While on the track you simply go to fixed settings so the bike isn’t ‘adjusting’ on it’s own…
Am I missing something here?
The complaint is three fold:
1. In present day technology that is sold to the public, electronic damping is not as precise as manual damping. Meaning, one click this way or that way is not the same unit of measure. In a race bike that's ridden at pace, even a single click of adjustment matters.
2. Electronic damping doesn't seem to be able to keep up at race pace. Electronic damping is constantly talking to the BBS which is talking to the IMU to make damping decisions, and the network just doesn't seem to be able to operate fast enough at race pace.
3. Taking very intuitive clickers on the forks or shock and burying them under several layers of counter intuitive menus makes it very hard to pit out, make a quick adjustment and get back on track. What could be a 10 second process is now 3 or 4 minutes. And instead of just counting clicks, Ducati (or ohlins?) seems to have invented their own monikers ('more grip' or 'more stability' etc.) and instead of using the normal operating range for a race fork or shock (32 clicks from zero damping to full damping), they are using their own scale from -5 to 5 forcing us to compute the imprecise math. Extremely annoying actually.
Tech is in its infancy and not quite ready to re-invent the wheel for the better. When its mature and I can just pay for a custom DES 'map' for the specific track I am riding in, and flash it on the bike trackside, now we are talking, that's the true potential...
The V4R ships with 'classic' static forks and that should tell you something about Ducati's confidence in present day tech for their 'race' bike....
