Gearing Change

Stock sprocket teeth setup is 16 tooth front, 41 tooth rear…16/41.

I had changed it before tracking the bike to a 15/43 setup that dropped top speed by about 20 mph but gave the bike a lot more lower end torque…I thought this would be a good idea because I’m a bigger rider….and it is a pretty good setup for hooliganing around on the street.

But it make the Ducati’s already twitchy throttle control significantly MORE twitchy, and made the bike much harder to learn on at the track.

This morning I changed it to the Superlite Quickchange setup, and change the sprocket tooth setup to 16/40…just a bit longer than stock….throttle control is MUCH better, much less twitchy.

I was running a 520 setup already, but was using a steel sprocket by CNC RACING…the one I put on today is the SUPERLIGHT Aluminum sprocket…remarkably that got rid of close to a pound of rotating mass.

16/40

Is a bit longer than stock 16/41

You have to see gearing according to the track, according to your pace and weight

I would recommend something more like 16/42

But like I tell you, everything depend on thing I don’t know.

Track
Pace

Weight, you have told us you are big Steve

By the way

That AEM sprocket holder looks great with everything black and gold chain

RODOLFO said:

16/40

Is a bit longer than stock 16/41

You have to see gearing according to the track, according to your pace and weight

I would recommend something more like 16/42

But like I tell you, everything depend on thing I don’t know.

Track
Pace

Weight, you have told us you are big Steve

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Yeah I was using gear commander and mapping out the gear changes on the track I go to most…that’s the tallest I can go without having to get into 1st gear

RODOLFO said:

By the way

That AEM sprocket holder looks great with everything black and gold chain

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When this chain wears out I’ll probably get an all black one…for not I have kind of a silver and red theme on the bike…though I’m thinking of changing it to yellow fairings with black accents

RODOLFO said:

16/40

Is a bit longer than stock 16/41

You have to see gearing according to the track, according to your pace and weight

I would recommend something more like 16/42

But like I tell you, everything depend on thing I don’t know.

Track
Pace

Weight, you have told us you are big Steve

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I’m 6’3” and about 250 pounds in gear.

Yellow would look awesome, I wasn't going to say it but since you're considering a change, the red on silver doesnt work IMHO

Paul G said:

Yellow would look awesome, I wasn't going to say it but since you're considering a change, the red on silver doesnt work IMHO

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Really? I think it looks good

Sort of a metallic silver in person, looks pretty good, will keep this set of fairings as is but probably gunna get another set that’s yellow.

Hi,
If i change only front sprocket to smaller, do i need to make chain shorter?


Regards!

Not necessarily… but it will alter your ride height