Evol Technology Relocation Bracket

Hello everyone, not sure how many have been following the SBU V4R build on YouTube, but they recently developed a bracket that relocates the wheel speed sensor to the bottom of the eccentric hub while retaining the ability to use the OEM brake caliper. Their build is on a Corse swingarm, so I figured I'd let you guys know how well it functions on a OEM swingarm.

It bolts up perfectly fine, just not as simply as you would expect.

1. You have to feed more of the wire for the speed sensor through to the rear of the bike. Takes undoing some zip ties, a bracket, and peeling off heat tape that joins the cable to the rear brake line. Once you do that, best solution seems to be copying SBU and running it over the top of the swingarm around the rear and to the mounting point. Was able to do so despite the oversuspension.

2. You will have to remove the OEM chain/swingarm guard. My V4 is no longer a road machine so this isn't the biggest deal to me, but since the bracket lowers the eccentric hub significantly, the chain will lay on the guard and bend around it. Once you remove it, the chain is unobstructed. However, the stock chain guard wraps all the way around the front of the swingarm in one piece, making it a pain in the ... to remove. I intend on trying to shape mine into still being functional by removing a lot of material, but did not accomplish that today.

3. OEM rear brake line is a no-go for two reasons. For one, at the lower position range of the hub, the line is forced to bend outward and contacts the wheel. Secondly, the chain guard assists in keeping the OEM line away from the chain, removing it makes them uncomfortably close.



Make sure you have snap ring pliers that are good and open up to roughly 2 inches because the ring that holds the bracket on is a beefy .......

None of the workarounds it requires are dealbreakers for a track bike, but might be too much of a hassle for a road machine. Not a bad way to get quite a bit of extra rear ride height without having to mess with suspension.

That’s one to do it...

Or you could just buy a Panigale?

In which case the Ducati comes stock with the sensor down there where it should be and correct number of cylinders two : )

Not following but what is the point of the relocation in the first place?

brad8266 said:

Not following but what is the point of the relocation in the first place?

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It makes it so the eccentric hub rotates on the lower half of its possible movement instead of the upper half. OEM, rear height is neutral on each of the extreme ends of adjustment but is actually lowest n the middle of the adjustment range, where ideal chain tension usually sits.

Moving the sensor to the bottom means at normal chain tension range, rear height is more elevated. Basically, the bracket is a simple way to get improved geometry without having to change/adjust suspension or the swingarm. You can see a pretty drastic increase in rear height between the two pictures with the two different brackets.

Yeah same here its pointless also the billet hangar has already been a topic a million times.

Gotcha that makes sense but seems like an expensive and painful way to accomplish that as opposed to just turning the height adjuster on the bottom of the shock. On my v4s it’s pretty easy to adjust ride height, not sure why anyone would want the rear higher as it comes too high stock as it is, or at least mine was. Improved geometry from this is subjective based on individual riding style.

brad8266 said:

Gotcha that makes sense but seems like an expensive and painful way to accomplish that as opposed to just turning the height adjuster on the bottom of the shock. On my v4s it’s pretty easy to adjust ride height, not sure why anyone would want the rear higher as it comes too high stock as it is, or at least mine was. Improved geometry from this is subjective based on individual riding style.

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Well, I have a base model V4 and the Sachs shock does not have adjustable ride height. A cheaper solution than buying an adjustable shock.

MaverickiB said:

Well, I have a base model V4 and the Sachs shock does not have adjustable ride height. A cheaper solution than buying an adjustable shock.

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Oh wow pardon my ignorance, had no idea base v4 was not adjustable. That is a travesty for a premium brand like Ducati, very surprising. I had assumed any v4 variant would have some height adjustability. Now this relocate makes more sense

Mick1976 said:

Yeah same here its pointless also the billet hangar has already been a topic a million times.

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As far as I know, Evol are the first ones to come up with the relocation hangar for the V4. Corse relocates it, but also forces you to use a different caliper and likely doesn't work with the OEM swingarm. Sorry if I'm late to this party, I haven't seen the million other threads on this.

brad8266 said:

Oh wow pardon my ignorance, had no idea base v4 was not adjustable. That is a travesty for a premium brand like Ducati, very surprising. I had assumed any v4 variant would have some height adjustability. Now this relocate makes more sense

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Yeah, no ride height adjustment for base models. Big poop.

I don’t think flipping that eccentric was done to change ride height

I am pretty sure the fast guys know how high they want the back of their bike to be and I bet they put it right back to that dimension after flipping it

And are prolly left with better swing arm and chain angles after doing so?

The part was made for a race bike, not base

Nothing new IM in Germany has been making the billet hangars for years now 1098,1199 etc. Few of us on here been running them for years now and 84mm bolt spacing with billet caliper.

MaverickiB said:

As far as I know, Evol are the first ones to come up with the relocation hangar for the V4. Corse relocates it, but also forces you to use a different caliper and likely doesn't work with the OEM swingarm. Sorry if I'm late to this party, I haven't seen the million other threads on this.

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Don14R said:

I don’t think flipping that eccentric was done to change ride height

I am pretty sure the fast guys know how high they want the back of their bike to be and I bet they put it right back to that dimension after flipping it

And are prolly left with better swing arm and chain angles after doing so?

The part was made for a race bike, not base

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Either way, my machine will hopefully be racing in the future, so any geometry improvements it supplies are welcome.

If your gonna take it apart to put on the billet hangar might as well swap out the eccentric to a mag Febur unit and swap out oem rear axle to a titanium one. More precision and less weight.

MaverickiB said:

Yeah, no ride height adjustment for base models. Big poop.

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Only because its built into the shock's lower eyelet on the Ohlins unit. With the xx99 series it was a linkage adjustment, but with the V4 the Sachs shock lacks the threaded eyelet on the bottom.

Mick1976 said:

If your gonna take it apart to put on the billet hangar might as well swap out the eccentric to a mag Febur unit and swap out oem rear axle to a titanium one. More precision and less weight.

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If money grew on trees, I definitely would

Most of this stuff is no more money then the OEM crap the factory sells.

MaverickiB said:

If money grew on trees, I definitely would

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If you pay OEM prices for a Sachs shock you are likely a special kind of .........

Mick1976 said:

Most of this stuff is no more money then the OEM crap the factory sells.

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Still costs money, friend. I know for sure that eccentric hub and Ti axle aren't cheap. I'm an E5 in the Navy, don't make the kind of money to dump thousands at once on a regular basis. Already spent way too much on this thing when I absolutely cannot ride it anywhere near its capability, lmao

MaverickiB said:

Still costs money, friend. I know for sure that eccentric hub and Ti axle aren't cheap. I'm an E5 in the Navy, don't make the kind of money to dump thousands at once on a regular basis. Already spent way too much on this thing when I absolutely cannot ride it anywhere near its capability, lmao

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Have you bothered to actually have your suspension setup for you yet? If not, you are wasting your money on this other stuff at this point.

If you are trying to get your ride height in the rear up so you can get some quicker turn in, you can do the same thing by dropping the forks in the triple clamps, takes 15 minutes with a single Allen wrench.

Don’t be afraid to mess with your suspension settings, just do a little reading first. Small single change at a time, test, refine.