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The slip-on, just by itself DOES seem to me to improve the really low down ridability, but it's even better with the supplied Sprint P08 filter; however, it's still an L twin down low. With the RapidBike, there is a slight improvement, but not much down low (If I remember correctly, the RapidBike only starts adjusting from 2,700 rpm upwards). Where the RapidBike excels is from about 3,500 rpm on up; it simply transforms the bike.
It is my opinion that the 1299 is brutally strangled by having to meet emissions (far more so than for example, my BMW S1000RR was) and so Ducati had to make compromises in the way the bike was fueled and with the way the exhaust works. The stock air filter is tremendously restrictive as well (which is why Ducati puts the Sprint P08 in the Superleggera).
If you go full exhaust, or the Termi slip-on (which removes the cats), Sprint air filter and a RapidBike, Tuneboy or Power Commander, or even custom ECU tune, you will find that the 1299 reacts incredibly well.
Mine is just astonishing now. Not only is it far more driveable, but far smoother in terms of rolling on, or going WFO. It runs WAAAAAAY cooler, it has tons of grunt from 4,000 rpm and has lost any and all hesitation at all throttle openings. It's just effing brilliant now.
I am doing a two day track weekend up at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern, CA; I am very familiar with the track and did hundreds of laps there on my BMW S1000RR; I will find out just how good the Ducati is when I get there, but I can almost guarantee you that I will be significantly faster on the 1299 than I was on my S1000RR.
Cheers.
I didn't mind paying $8,000 for an Exhaust for my GT2, but that's a different matter.
