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I’ve met Steven in person a few times. We’ve been to the track together and we’ve ridden the canyons together. I have no clue what he does for a living, but he is an impressive dude.

aww thanks man, especially kind of you to say so while trying to herd my slow ass back up the the rest of the group in those mountains lol
 
I had an opportunity to get a 22 that someone backed out on. Great deal. I knew it might be the smarter choice and easier to ride. But as you said when the sales guy called me and told me the bike just came in and never tracked only Starbucks I went down there. Probably more character in the R and more visceral to ride. Will I be faster on it? Maybe not. It does lack the immediate pull off the corners like the 1103 if your not in the revs. But the power hit above 12k is just plain silly. At the end of the day I’m looking for something that makes me laugh under the helmet when riding. These are emotional purchases after all. The 22 might have been smarter but I would have always wondered about the R like you said

Yep, I went for what I thought was the ‘smarter’ purchase when I got mine, and I do in fact keep wondering what the R is like.
 
Back to the thread intent, build updates.

Just got her home from the shop for what will probably be the last time for awhile.

gear selection sensor is sorted…new tires on, Woolich all installed at set up so I can do some track logging and auto tuning.

was really in there for the last few days because the engine light was on, they ran through everything so we new it wasn’t something serious, just codes left over from tearing the bike down and putting it back together.

one minor weakness of the Woolich system, a weird one, is that you can adjust just about everything on the bike, not just ignition timing and afr etc, but throttle control, Quickshifter kill times etc etc etc….and it’s all well sorted and easy to work with….but

ironically you cannot clear codes on a 2020 or newer bike with the Woolich software lol

so they ended up taking the bike over to Ducati Newport Beach where they had a dealer login capability to clear the codes, there were 37 codes to clear from the rear down and build up process.

so now everything is sorted, she’s running well, handling well, no engine codes, no little grim pins, just near perfection.

move been riding the K5 Gixxer track bike around the last week….and like it a lot, but wow when I get back on the Ducati after riding the Gixxer for several days it’s a whole different thing….I feel so much more connected as the rider to the Ducati, and it’s a way more nimble bike besides being faster.

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A note on Windscreens….I’ve tried several now.

the two that work best for a big rider are the Puig with the curved upward edge at the rear of the windscreen, but even better is the Zero Gravity Sport Touring, works really well for even a big oaf like me to tuck behind.
 
Nice Porschka man. Had a few back in the day. Had some of the first prototype zero clearance turbos made for the 996 turbo. Usual stuff too. Think Kevin Z made them
They were comparable to KKK 16/27's and run it with meth injection. Fun stuff!!
 
Nice Porschka man. Had a few back in the day. Had some of the first prototype zero clearance turbos made for the 996 turbo. Usual stuff too. Think Kevin Z made them
They were comparable to KKK 16/27's and run it with meth injection. Fun stuff!!

right on, some of those 996 builds are sick, and still competitive at the races we do….mine was running a meth system until recently, we switched it to Motec system running E85….just as much power but in a way safer more controlled package.
 
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one minor weakness of the Woolich system, a weird one, is that you can adjust just about everything on the bike, not just ignition timing and afr etc, but throttle control, Quickshifter kill times etc etc etc….and it’s all well sorted and easy to work with….but

They added QS tuning function?

Last I checked with Woolich is that this function isn't available yet for the V4 platform.
 
I had thought Woolich said it would be in a future update. Other tunes adjust the kill and blip times, so it can be done.
 
I may be wrong, but my understanding from the guys at the shop was yes you could, tomorrow I’m going to go do some hard 4th gear pulls to log then auto tune, I’ll update as I go, and will confirm or deny QS adjustment ability.
 
Finally getting around to tuning with the Woolich today…

I searched the thread but can’t find it it lol

What’s max RPM for these bikes? Max safe RPM?

I set it for 15k and am about to go test ride it….let’s see if it blows up lol



In other news, my whole house had Covid this week, was a rough week, both parents with a fever and both kids at the same time lol

That was a child care adventure hahaha.
 
Waaaaaat? Not possible. The vaccines fixed all that, must be a false positive. You know Ducati de-rates those things for insurance purposes. Horse power numbers are really around 400 so I would place the realistic redline at somewhere north of 25k. Just disable the rev limiter (fake marketing numbers) and pin it. You’ll find it. It will give a distinctive audible notification followed by an abrupt tactile experience.
 
Waaaaaat? Not possible. The vaccines fixed all that, must be a false positive. You know Ducati de-rates those things for insurance purposes. Horse power numbers are really around 400 so I would place the realistic redline at somewhere north of 25k. Just disable the rev limiter (fake marketing numbers) and pin it. You’ll find it. It will give a distinctive audible notification followed by an abrupt tactile experience.

I'm currently watching covid knock out my fully vaxxed and mostly boosted command while I just sit there surrounded by sick people telling me, "Wow, you're so lucky you're not getting sick like everyone else."

Yeah. Luck. We'll call it that.

If I had the money, I'd give seeing if a V4 could hit 25krpm a go. I bet it'd sound absolutely insane for a fraction of a second. I told my best friend that if/when I die, he can have my V4 as long as he makes it hit 250hp to the wheel on a dyno at least once. I told him it does not have to survive the encounter with that number.
 
I'm currently watching covid knock out my fully vaxxed and mostly boosted command while I just sit there surrounded by sick people telling me, "Wow, you're so lucky you're not getting sick like everyone else."

Yeah. Luck. We'll call it that.

If I had the money, I'd give seeing if a V4 could hit 25krpm a go. I bet it'd sound absolutely insane for a fraction of a second. I told my best friend that if/when I die, he can have my V4 as long as he makes it hit 250hp to the wheel on a dyno at least once. I told him it does not have to survive the encounter with that number.
Hang in there brother, I’m sure they’re figuring out how to monetize the next round. Stay focused.
 

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