After 8 years is the electronic suspension still worth the money?

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Vicati said:
LE??? dude who gives a .... we pay our taxes just like anyone else, you do you we do us, yes track is a controlled environment but street is fun too especially cause you can stop at starbucks lol

respect to LE I have a ton of LE buddies that ride with us at night that are bummed about me crashing.
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I’m having a bit of a time with that last part. Law enforcement officers out in the middle of the night racing down the streets with these guys? I’m thinking no.
double0 said:
Mann....the grammar and punctuation nazi in me is dying to correct all his posts but I'm afraid of the headache.
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An atomic clock dot have that kind of time.
 
endodoc said:
I’m having a bit of a time with that last part. Law enforcement officers out in the middle of the night racing down the streets with these guys? I’m thinking no.

An atomic clock dot have that kind of time.
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No comment.
 
To go back to original reason of this post, Electronic Ohlins relies way to much on the electronic signal from the the ecu.
So no not worth the money when you can get better suspension and have money for other mods like rims, maybe carbon & other little things.
Mechanical suspension is the way to go for reliability.
 
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endodoc said:
LOL you just commented
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Yeah I know but I feel like it’s going no where, you guys are just going to talk ...., but it won’t change anything with any of the guys that ride fast on roads.

It is what is is. The same guys also go to the track.
 
To the OP's question for road yes track IMO no , I am hesitant to add to the trolling but just could not hold my tongue :
to the meat puppet crashing and not dying bragging about doing 190 or whatever on a public road endangering other innocent families lives
blaming the electronics for not saving him from overriding his skill set.
FFS get off your hind legs and go back and sit on your mat .No one is impressed with your balls out street MAXWRIST street hooliganism .
NO ONE CARES !
 
Riding fast on roads is fine. Everyone here does it. Riding irresponsibly and endangering or even inconveniencing people who don’t share your activity isn’t. It is what it is. Riding fast on rural roads, cops aren’t going to hassle you. I do it daily. I also slow to the speed limit if I pass a small town or small residential area. I don’t speed when I’m back in town or city limits and I keep the revs down if I have to go through a residential neighborhood.

....... bike is loud and I know not everyone likes noise. It’s called being responsible and considerate of people who aren’t like you. Not everyone like to be past by a bike at 100+ walking their dog through the park.

The issue becomes a lot more problematic when you guys get together. Take a look at some of the .... on YouTube people have to deal with. You all talk the same “ no bro, we only ride in deserted roads in the middle of nowhere at night” then post a bunch of videos doing wheelies down crowded streets. ....... BS for everyone. Now if they can just find a way to impound all those ridiculous, backfiring fart cans, we could make some progress.
 
Also there is zero mention of your crash anywhere on YouTube or anywhere else. A guy who rides with a “crew” that goes down at 190 and is in the hospital with multiple serious injuries is going to get mentioned. Can’t find it anywhere. How about some pics of the bike?
 
I’m not flexing about my skill set lol, I am skilled but I’m not flexing it seems all you guys are coming over and attacking me, lol kindly .... off, I said the dampener failed, it is what it is, also It’s not on you tube I never said it was, I want recording that day actually didn’t even have cámaras on me or the one guy that was with me there… the other thing that’s not entirely my crew. I don’t even know 5up or 650ib, I just watch their videos.
 
endodoc said:
Also there is zero mention of your crash anywhere on YouTube or anywhere else. A guy who rides with a “crew” that goes down at 190 and is in the hospital with multiple serious injuries is going to get mentioned. Can’t find it anywhere. How about some pics of the bike?
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Also no pics of my bike I just been focusing on my self & recovering not really worried about it now. I will be taking a look at it sometime soon first I have to get cleared at the hospital.
 
endodoc said:
Riding fast on roads is fine. Everyone here does it. Riding irresponsibly and endangering or even inconveniencing people who don’t share your activity isn’t. It is what it is. Riding fast on rural roads, cops aren’t going to hassle you. I do it daily. I also slow to the speed limit if I pass a small town or small residential area. I don’t speed when I’m back in town or city limits and I keep the revs down if I have to go through a residential neighborhood.

....... bike is loud and I know not everyone likes noise. It’s called being responsible and considerate of people who aren’t like you. Not everyone like to be past by a bike at 100+ walking their dog through the park.

The issue becomes a lot more problematic when you guys get together. Take a look at some of the .... on YouTube people have to deal with. You all talk the same “ no bro, we only ride in deserted roads in the middle of nowhere at night” then post a bunch of videos doing wheelies down crowded streets. ....... BS for everyone. Now if they can just find a way to impound all those ridiculous, backfiring fart cans, we could make some progress.
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Yeah that’s definitely not me or any of my buddies… so awkward, we ride with V4R, M1000rr, my Panigale 1299, CBR rrr, Aprilia factory, R1 the V4 SL was a buddy but it’s sold now and that only came out on you tube because he allowed Jac to record. But doesn’t mean I ride with him.

I respect the law as much as possible and people, when I go fast no one else is on the road, and I do a lot of rural riding, I know may change where I ride but I mean I’m not a total bloke lol.

I know the consequences so I thread carefully but when their is an opportunity then I send, just like I know you guys do too, like this Wednesday was one of those nights honest failure of stock dampener. No one was at Risk thank god.
I’m grateful I’m still here & no one else got hurt.
 
Given the circumstances of the crash, did you even see the bike afterwards? I presume you got a tankslapper/death wobble which is what made you draw the conclusion that the damper failed. I'd also presume the bike is a total loss. Has anyone examined the damper?

Was it set to DES Dynamic or DES Fixed? I don't know if manual (fixed) settings were a thing with the 1199. My 1199 was a base with the terrible forks and terrible shock.

With DES Dynamic, at least on the Panigale V4S, if you set the steering damper to -5 or +5 it won't have any effect when the bike is standing still. In DES Fixed you can set it from 19 (low damping) to 1 (high damping). At 1 you really have to put effort into the bars to move it at all, even when standing still. I never tried unplugging it or powering off the bike to see if the setting persisted in DES Fixed.
 
Dezi said:
To the OP's question for road yes track IMO no , I am hesitant to add to the trolling but just could not hold my tongue :
to the meat puppet crashing and not dying bragging about doing 190 or whatever on a public road endangering other innocent families lives
blaming the electronics for not saving him from overriding his skill set.
FFS get off your hind legs and go back and sit on your mat .No one is impressed with your balls out street MAXWRIST street hooliganism .
NO ONE CARES !
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Meat puppet? Lmfaoo bragging? Hahaha I think you guys misunderstood I’m not bragging I’m simply saying what happened, and that the electronic steering dampener failed during the ride… I don’t need to brag to some people on the internet I don’t care too really. Lol your tought or opinions don’t matter, not in a Dick way but like they don’t. We sure got a lot of tough type warriors today going off on me, over my highside, bunch of haters or low quality peeps it seems like it’s a shame the Ducati forum is going and summing up to people like you guys, weather I was going fast or not the dampener should have never failed. Especially being serviced. Im not 650ib or max wrist or 5 up, or Jac or imKay. I don’t even know them so you guys go talk .... to them, also my squad doesn’t ride with them when we make videos it’s very rare. This is also my first spill ever and instead of being comrades you guys are all being dicks. Wether you want change or not like I told @endodoc make a YouTube and reach an audience and then only then maybe y’all have a chance in influencing peoples decisions. But trying to put down another fellow rider who also has put a ton of value in the forums is out of line.

also seems like lots more of you guys have time to sit here and talk ...., keep it up I guess must be the peak of your week. Going to go back to recovering and working. Peace. Oh and I still have another Panigale.
 
Vicati said:
… weather I was going fast or not the dampener should have never failed.
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Alternatively: “… whether the damper failed or not, I should have never been riding so fast on a public road.”

I’m sorry to hear you were injured bro, and I hope you recover quickly. I’m also glad to hear that neither you nor anyone else was killed in the accident.
 

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