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SuperDomestique said:
Nah. There’s more time to be made up on the brakes than acceleration. Mastering trail braking is more important than twisting the throttle full stop. The seat was flattened and tank re-contoured to help with ergonomics with braking.

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What? Most turns on any track are fastest on exit. Aside from tight turns like chicanes where exit speed is limited inside the chicane. It’s literally physics… So getting to WOT as fast a possible out of the turn is the priority. Not slowing down to enter the turn.

Of course trail braking is a requirement for anyone to go fast, that obviously a standard thing…. But to maximize lap times you need to focus on exit speed and getting out of lean as efficient as possible.
 
RickD996 said:
The clutch wear comes predominantly from the slipper clutch, on downshifts and lifting off the throttle.

Oil changes, Ducati recommended race intervals on the V4R - 1,500 miles. Modern oils work better after 'running in'. Changing too often is suboptimal.
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Rick do you think the dry slipper works better that wet having experienced them back to back?
 
Paul G said:
Rick do you think the dry slipper works better that wet having experienced them back to back?
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It's very marginal, and just talking about the slipper function.
I have fitted the heavier spring to my V4R slipper, and couldn't really detect any difference. Hopefully longer life.
Riding the wet and dry clutch, back to back, couldn't really feel any difference. Although, on the wet clutch, once, under really hard braking (with potentially too soft fork spring, or too big air gap), downhill into a slight off camber corner, the back did come around. But, it didn't catch, or judder, just came back in line.
 
bp_SFV4 said:
Canes isn't bad, unless you take it home. These fried chicken places that put it into Styrofoam should all be closed. The goodness steams inside of the container and gets mushy. A paper bag would make more sense.
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Korean fried chicken is where it’s at. Von’s or Spicy Factory
 

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