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Steven31371 said:
Look at the difference in foot peg location, similar seat height but the foot pegs dramatically different.

It was a former MotoGP rider that got me me looking a lot more at the height between seat and pegs, basically how bent my legs were, he looked at me on the bike and said I needed to lower my pegs and raise my seat a lot, and that he couldn’t ride well if his legs were bent as much as mine, so I lowered the foot pegs about a centimeter and raised the seat about 2 centimeters.
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So 1 inch made as massive a difference as you're makin it seem?
 
Steven31371 said:
They don’t dramatically extend the swingarm, mines 3.5 centimeters longer, if you expand the pic on your iPhone and put the front edge of the front tire on the right edge of your phone screen as the picture toggles, it looks like the front tire is about 3 to 4 centimeters difference in wheel base.

Looks like the fork rake might be different too
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Good eye. Looks like the stock bike is 3.5 cm longer than WSBK per specs. I used that known wheelbase measurement to get other measurements on Bautista’s set up at launch. Btw, he’s 5’6.5” (169 cm).

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Bautista’s seat height is 20 mm higher than stock. I never thought about the seat height being higher for a shorter person could actually be beneficial.
 
SuperDomestique said:
Good eye. Looks like the stock bike is 3.5 cm longer than WSBK per specs. I used that known wheelbase measurement to get other measurements on Bautista’s set up at launch. Btw, he’s 5’6.5” (169 cm).

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Bautista’s seat height is 20 mm higher than stock. I never thought about the seat height being higher for a shorter person could actually be beneficial.
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A higher center of gravity on a bike helps it turn better…most people think the SBK fuel tank has more fuel in the seat area to lower the center of gravity, that’s not the reason they do that, it’s to better center the center of gravity from front to back.

Higher center of gravity centered front to back is the goal for better turning.
 
Steven31371 said:
A higher center of gravity on a bike helps it turn better…most people think the SBK fuel tank has more fuel in the seat area to lower the center of gravity, that’s not the reason they do that, it’s to better center the center of gravity from front to back.

Higher center of gravity centered front to back is the goal for better turning.
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That is correct, more weight over the rear wheel too. This is the wsbk tank and subframe from the barni Ducati, i was able to get it off them after the wsbk round at Phillip island.
 

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SuperDomestique said:
Steven what were the specs for your seat? Ie how much padding did you opt for?
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Flat competition seat, squared sides, 20mm higher.

I would have went higher still but was worried I was going to loose too much real estate on the gas tank vertically for my legs to grab at lean.

Though that doesn’t seem to be an issue after all.

I’m also not sold on the squared sides, but won’t really know until I’m at the track, can’t really tell anything significant about these bikes on street test rides. But so far it seems like a slightly more rounded edge might be better with one ass cheek off and one on haha
 
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Looks like F22 even has a different bore/stroke and capacity. Stock is 88 X 48 with 998 cc. Interestingly, F22 is 100x61 with only 950 cc. Amazing that despite lacking 50 cc it’s most likely the most powerful bike on the grid
 

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