I think a lot of these parts are similar to weight reduction on the bike, individually each part only reduces a little bit of weight so it doesn’t seem like it’s worth it to do, but all the parts together add up to pretty significant weight reduction…I think it’s the same with the performance bits adding up.
I’m not a fast rider but this bike is FAST, there have been several instances where other Ducati’s have been stuck behind me on a corner carrying faster roll speed through the corner and going around me on the drive onto the straight, and I twist the throttle and pull right back up beside them or past them…V4R’s, V4S’s, doesn’t matter, I haven’t seen one yet faster on the straights than mine, and that’s with me weighing 50 to 70 pounds more than their riders with a body big enough to act like a sail.
My bike is probably 30 to 40 pounds lighter than most of the other Ducatis out there on track, but I think it’s lots of little things adding up. Probably 15 to 20 pounds of that weight reduction is rotational mass, so the bike spins up faster, the Thysenkrupp wheels that only weight a few ounces less overall than say a BSD CF wheels has less weight in the barrel and more towards the hub than the bsd cf wheels so less rotational weight further from the hub where it multiplies, I have the track spec Sprint air filter and the smog stuff removed, and the WSBK exhaust, with a good tune optimizing it, and that extended swingarm that creates mechanical anti-wheelie so there is less electronic wheelie intervention that cuts the power, and the dry clutch reducing just a bit of parasitic power loss from the engine to the wheels, a 15/41 sprocket setup instead of a 16/41 setup so it pulls a bit harder etc etc….each of those things by themselves don’t make much of a difference, but together they seem to.
Now if I could just get to the point where I can ride this thing anywhere close to it’s potential lol
