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Hi guys,
I bought a Panigale V4R on July last year, one year before I was riding a Speciale then I sold it to my brother and went for the R.
The dry clutch works great especially during hard braking when the slipper system behaves much better than the one on the speciale but last week while I was riding I suddenly noticed that the rpm was going to idle every time I was closing the throttle, basically the rear wheel was not able to drag the engine anymore During decelerations while during accelerations everything was normal and no slipping of the clutch at all.
I took the bike to Ducati Service and they found that the mechanism of the slipper system was completely worn out needing components replacement, not only the disks.
My V4R has only 5600km total and I have driven the Speciale for 10500km without any issues, being a racing clutch the slipper system engages every time you release the throttle shifting down at high rpm, this wears the clutch so unless you just use the bike to do very soft rides expect the clutch to fail pretty soon.
I would suggest to consider this issue for those who want to upgrade their V4 to dry clutch.
I bought a Panigale V4R on July last year, one year before I was riding a Speciale then I sold it to my brother and went for the R.
The dry clutch works great especially during hard braking when the slipper system behaves much better than the one on the speciale but last week while I was riding I suddenly noticed that the rpm was going to idle every time I was closing the throttle, basically the rear wheel was not able to drag the engine anymore During decelerations while during accelerations everything was normal and no slipping of the clutch at all.
I took the bike to Ducati Service and they found that the mechanism of the slipper system was completely worn out needing components replacement, not only the disks.
My V4R has only 5600km total and I have driven the Speciale for 10500km without any issues, being a racing clutch the slipper system engages every time you release the throttle shifting down at high rpm, this wears the clutch so unless you just use the bike to do very soft rides expect the clutch to fail pretty soon.
I would suggest to consider this issue for those who want to upgrade their V4 to dry clutch.
