My 2015 Panigale R Build

The Big Haul - Part 2(b)

3. Sprint P08 R127S Filter - The R comes with a Sprint P08 filter stock, but this one is just a little bit more special. The carbon frame used is much thinner than the usual P08 filter, which increases the filter surface by 210%. I bought this from Motomillion.

4. Spider shock support - I previously purchased the Sato shock support when I had my 899, but I wanted a more incognito look, which the Spider unit is perfect for. It was used in WSBK by the Barni team. I believe Ducati rectified the old failed shock support bolts, but for peace of mind, I thought I'd go for this unit. Purchased from Desmo Racing (link)

5. Translogic shifter - Knowing now that the mushy shifter feel (as compared to my BlipBox unit on the 899) was down to the shifter mechanism, I decided it was time to get a proper strain gauge shifter.

6. Ohlins titanium TTX shock spring - No reasonable reason for this. The Ohlins dealer here could source this for me, so I had to pull the trigger. Good enough for the SL, good enough for me

7. More titanium bolts, including Phil's titanium valve cover bolts - These are well-known in the forum and are the perfect solution/preventative measure for leaky valve covers since these bolts can be safety wired.

Trackday with the new parts went great.

I like the further-back sitting position with the extender in place, but I should have given more thought to the seat height. I didn't specify to Race Seats that I wanted to keep the DP race seat height, so the Race Seats one felt a little too low. The painter did a standup job matching the red and getting the silver to look brushed.

One the way back, I got a killer deal on a new set of Marchesini M9RS forged magnesium wheels (the 1199SL wheels in matte black), so this went on as well.

Beautifull bikes

Love it

vyruz:
What was your impression of the Translogic quickshifter?

Toss your oem one in the trash get a Translogic you will never turn back. Less miss shifts, easier shifting and more precise. I told at least dozen people to purchase one and once they did same impression.

JSR29 said:

vyruz:
What was your impression of the Translogic quickshifter?

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Be curious to see what the offset/geometry is on that Spider shock mount. Few people in the US including myself been running the Desmo Veloce setup from Richard Boyd. All cnc machined totally different shock setup with smaller/shorter spring different shock eye works well gives more feedback to the rider.






4. Spider shock support - I previously purchased the Sato shock support when I had my 899, but I wanted a more incognito look, which the Spider unit is perfect for. It was used in WSBK by the Barni team. I believe Ducati rectified the old failed shock support bolts, but for peace of mind, I thought I'd go for this unit. Purchased from Desmo Racing (link)

Beautiful bike and mods, thanks for sharing!


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JSR29 said:

vyruz:
What was your impression of the Translogic quickshifter?

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Mick1976 said:

Toss your oem one in the trash get a Translogic you will never turn back. Less miss shifts, easier shifting and more precise. I told at least dozen people to purchase one and once they did same impression.

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Mick is spot on, JSR. It is a night-and-day difference.

The stock feels mushy and squidgy, which aside from not feeling mechanically pleasant, is not precise (e.g. finding neutral is difficult because some of your shifter movement is used to physically slide the microswitch inside that black shifter unit).

The Translogic one is crisp and solid feeling. This shifter feels mechanically solid (no moving parts inside the unit) and you can be more precise with it (e.g. short shifting is quicker, you find N quicker). Worth every single dollar.

Mick1976 said:

Be curious to see what the offset/geometry is on that Spider shock mount. Few people in the US including myself been running the Desmo Veloce setup from Richard Boyd. All cnc machined totally different shock setup with smaller/shorter spring different shock eye works well gives more feedback to the rider.

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I don't think it changes the geometry (happy to be proved wrong though!), which is why I went for it. The Desme Veloce setup looks way better, but as you say necessitated changes in the shock eye.

Pipes and brackets

I made it almost a year with the bike before the temptation of getting the full Akrapovic system was too much to resist. The R comes with stock titanium headers, so the correct part to buy was the R-specific Akrapovic slip-ons, which would then come with the correct upmap. But because I had the RapidBike installed (so didn't need an upmap) and having found a killer deal on a new full DP Akra system from Australia, I pulled the trigger on that instead.

While waiting for that to come in, I was sold on a billet rear brake bracket from IMM in Germany (link here). This is one of the inexplicable "˜Why am I doing this' mods. It looks amazing and the workmanship is top notch, but once installed, no one was going to see it. I will know though

Loving the blue.

That is a nice brake bracket.

what kind of clutch and brake reservoirs are those?

Yeah Marcel over at IMM makes nice stuff I have been running one for a while with a rear billet caliper and rear BrakeTech floating rotor.

able duc said:

That is a nice brake bracket.

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Its a nice looking bit of billet. Is there any weight saving to be had from it?

I didn't notice any difference in weight I had a modified oem one before that I had shaved tiny bit of weight but nothing to get worked up about. If anything the oem one being cast is actually stronger. I was going to run off some carbon ones at one point but they would have had to be much thicker framed to hold up so I ended up not going through with the tooling.

990Glen said:

Its a nice looking bit of billet. Is there any weight saving to be had from it?

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vyruz said:

Mick is spot on, JSR. It is a night-and-day difference.

The stock feels mushy and squidgy, which aside from not feeling mechanically pleasant, is not precise (e.g. finding neutral is difficult because some of your shifter movement is used to physically slide the microswitch inside that black shifter unit).

The Translogic one is crisp and solid feeling. This shifter feels mechanically solid (no moving parts inside the unit) and you can be more precise with it (e.g. short shifting is quicker, you find N quicker). Worth every single dollar.

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Thanks Vyruz! And Mick. I truly loath the stock quickshifter on the track and am looking for the best upgrade for next season.

New FKR Cartridges

The OEM Ohlins fork on the R is obviously a great unit, but from my experience with the FGRT forks on the 899, the R unit never felt as plush. With the previous fork seal leaks, I thought I'd get rid of the stock system and give Ohlins' new offering a go - specifically the FKR cartridge kit . It is a TTX unit but is a spring-pressurised system that is meant to be easier from a maintenance standpoint compared to the old gas-pressurised TTX system.

Since the forks were getting disassembled, it was time to update the travel indicator with a proper Ohlins unit. I wanted the white indicator with the green O-ring like I had on the FGRT forks, so an order was placed with the Ohlins dealer that got me the FKR inserts (part numbers 01565-04 (stroke indicator) and 00338-54 (green o-ring)).

There isn't a real perceptible difference for street riding (though if I had to say something, I'd say the initial fork travel felt smoother, but this could be just the refreshed oil in the forks), but a trackday will be coming up and it'll be interesting to see how it feels there.

.... mate you don’t muck around do you.
Shaping up to be a very cool build.