Panigale Vision
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Thanks guys, This is a good idea, I am about to install my rear ABS sensor today and I just remember that I do have similar cable protector made by TechFlex from my previous car audio project 
Hi Andy,Well I think it’s quite obvious why we started melting nowI was thinking of switching my o2 sensors for wideband ones when I got a proper dyno tune done. Guess the bike is getting impatient.
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Did the block off plug fall off?
Yep, gone forever it looks like. Annoyed I didn’t have a closer look before I left like I did over all the other critical fasteners.
Funny how a half hour job quickly becomes 3 or 4 hours on these Italians. I thought I may as well take the engine covers off since I was already loosening the subframe to access what I needed.
Nothing wanted to cooperate with me but got there finally and now I know exactly what to order. It was actually the lead down to the phonic sensor and believe it or not the brake light switch is undamaged.
As well as that lead I’ll get some bolts. Maybe even splash out and give it some ti treatment to replace these 2 monstrosities sticking out.
I’d love to upgrade the electronic holders and some of the other plastic bits with carbon when I put it all back together but just don’t have the $’s currently. Maybe if I hadn’t just spent way too much on a bicycle to stop myself getting fat
Hole re-plugged 
Lines/wires/sensors routed (with heat shrink wrap threaded on brake light switch + covering the lines stacked in front)
Bike reassembled & ready for another run this weekend
Still waiting on my oil cap to arrive but it’s functional in the meantime.
The blokes I bought the replacement speed sensor from included their business card in the box. Made me chuckle
Lines/wires/sensors routed (with heat shrink wrap threaded on brake light switch + covering the lines stacked in front)
Bike reassembled & ready for another run this weekend
Still waiting on my oil cap to arrive but it’s functional in the meantime.
The blokes I bought the replacement speed sensor from included their business card in the box. Made me chuckle
I think it is kinda true true though, because a Ducati is able to make you love and want to care for it yourself, but since it is a bike, the only way you can take care of it is by bringing out the "mechanics" side in youHole re-plugged
Lines/wires/sensors routed (with heat shrink wrap threaded on brake light switch + covering the lines stacked in front)
Bike reassembled & ready for another run this weekend
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Still waiting on my oil cap to arrive but it’s functional in the meantime.
The blokes I bought the replacement speed sensor from included their business card in the box. Made me chuckle
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it does add up quickly haha
Was a bit disappointed with my ride on the weekend. I switched from active to fixed suspension and changed a few settings to see if it would handle better. Didn’t really notice any difference in turning (bike is fighting me to lean) so yesterday I was bored I watched a few hours of YouTube (Dave moss & others) to get a gauge on some different setups. I removed some preload from the rear shock because my sag was slightly short and dropped the front of the bike 5mm so I can have some more weight on the front end. Will test it out this weekend hopefully and see if it’s an improvement.
I felt the same exact way when I changed my triples on my race bike. I think its the front end being more rigid. I had to do the same thing to get the bike to "feel" more similar to what I was used to. BTW your setup looks awesome. I might not be far behind you lol.
That’s exactly right, it’s not as forgiving as it was before! Stuck with the oem offset so it was a direct comparison. But I’m glad it’s not just me then.
Haha thankyou, still a bit more to go. I want to clean up the bars with the jet prime starter/throttle housing next and probably the left hand switches to pair. I also need to relocate the brake fluid reservoir with a better mount soon but the main thing for me is to just ride more. I’ve only put 5000km on the bike since I bought it which is nearly 2 years now. Lockdown has imprisoned us for nearly half of that time so I hope it’ll be a big summer catching up on lost miles.
Shakedown day. The anticipation kept me awake for hours last night which was annoying because a) I knew I’d be awake at 6am to watch GP quali. b) I had a lot of K’s to do and I wanted to be fresh.
I needed a good result from my fixings and changings over the last few months. Particularly the geometry adjustments this week. So, nice weather, no mechanical gremlins and certainly not bloody highway patrol. Not too much to ask for really
Oxley highway specifically the 160km between Walcha-Wauchope is one of the top 3 roads in Australia to ride. 300 corners through a 80km stretch through the mountains and it’s been closed since March from the heavy rains we had causing landslides and boulders to render it impassable. Council recently reopened it a month(ish) ago so I’ve been waiting for chance to check it out again.
There’s a lot of boring, straight, bumpy, pothole, shit roads for me to deal with before I get to where I need. Around 200km if I had to say. Yep, unluggy. Squared-off tires anyone?
Scene set; perfect day. Mid 20s (73-80°f) slight breeze, not too much traffic.
Bike felt good from the start, ride and comfort were improved compared to before so I was confident but cautious. Can’t celebrate too early.
Skip to the first turn. Wow, that was stable. 2nd, same but faster, 3rd okay let’s add lean, 4th corner, I don’t remember having this much confidence in my grip. 5th elbow down. Just kidding! The corners start off (depending on your direction) longer and more open on top of the mountain. 3rd and 4th gear mostly for about 25km with gaps between so you can rest and have a bit longer to setup your position. After that it tightens up, most of the next 45km are tight, blind 2nd gear nimble little turns. One leading into the other. Awesome, exhausting.
Im startled when my knee hits the ground. It throws me off a good line and I’m annoyed. But it’s gone and the next corner is already in front of me, so focus Andy.
I could easily write a whole essay about all my thoughts but as riders we all share that knowledge already.
What I can say about my adjustments however. I’ve never had a bike behave so well for me, there’s still room for improvement obviously but if todays feeling was 95% then all my previous riding on the Ducati has felt like 60%.
Destination: Wauchope. Fuel, quick snack, walk around stretch legs. 1/2 way through the day. It’s hot, I should have taken my jumper off.
Let’s turn around and do that again.
I’d checked out the route on the way over. Got a feel for the new setup, now we can have some proper fun. Nothing can go wrong as long as I don’t drop it. ‘What was that?’
‘What?’
‘That, you felt it didn’t you?’
‘No, it’s fine. It’s got to be’
‘There it is again’
‘Fuck’
It’s most definitely something. Why is the bike surging like this? Mid corner, full lean, another surge sending me right across the white line a foot into the oncoming lane fortunately I could see far enough to know it was clear.
Crook fuel, my poor baby has food poisoning I think. Thoughts of tow trucks, or sleeping on the side of the road haunt me for the next 10 mins as another 1/2 dozen sporadic surges mock me. If you stop it, you won’t restart it. But at the same time it doesn’t feel like bad fuel.
I pull over and try to diagnose an invisible, internal catastrophic engine failure with my eyes. But all I see is the quick shifter going mental. Even with the thread lock the strain gauge had loosened an 1/8 of a turn. Just enough where the engine power was being cut since the computer was telling it to shift down. Finger tight best I can do, 10 mins later another surge. Finger tight best I can do, 20 mins later…. Etc.
My earlier mishap sending me into the other lane + the concern I had over a disintegrated con-rod pretty much shattered any confidence of spirited riding til I got back to the next servo and borrowed a blokes spanner to tighten the shifter up a bit better. That’ll do, I just want to get home.
So, a little anticlimactic. But we’re all in one piece and the high of the journey east cannot be brought down by the western retreat.
It’s the longest day riding I’ve ever had too. 500km previously, today we were just shy of 750km (460 miles).
A bath for the 1299 to get all the dirt and bugs off and put her to bed. I honestly love that bike.
9.7/10 for today. Good night.
I needed a good result from my fixings and changings over the last few months. Particularly the geometry adjustments this week. So, nice weather, no mechanical gremlins and certainly not bloody highway patrol. Not too much to ask for really
Oxley highway specifically the 160km between Walcha-Wauchope is one of the top 3 roads in Australia to ride. 300 corners through a 80km stretch through the mountains and it’s been closed since March from the heavy rains we had causing landslides and boulders to render it impassable. Council recently reopened it a month(ish) ago so I’ve been waiting for chance to check it out again.
There’s a lot of boring, straight, bumpy, pothole, shit roads for me to deal with before I get to where I need. Around 200km if I had to say. Yep, unluggy. Squared-off tires anyone?
Scene set; perfect day. Mid 20s (73-80°f) slight breeze, not too much traffic.
Bike felt good from the start, ride and comfort were improved compared to before so I was confident but cautious. Can’t celebrate too early.
Skip to the first turn. Wow, that was stable. 2nd, same but faster, 3rd okay let’s add lean, 4th corner, I don’t remember having this much confidence in my grip. 5th elbow down. Just kidding! The corners start off (depending on your direction) longer and more open on top of the mountain. 3rd and 4th gear mostly for about 25km with gaps between so you can rest and have a bit longer to setup your position. After that it tightens up, most of the next 45km are tight, blind 2nd gear nimble little turns. One leading into the other. Awesome, exhausting.
Im startled when my knee hits the ground. It throws me off a good line and I’m annoyed. But it’s gone and the next corner is already in front of me, so focus Andy.
I could easily write a whole essay about all my thoughts but as riders we all share that knowledge already.
What I can say about my adjustments however. I’ve never had a bike behave so well for me, there’s still room for improvement obviously but if todays feeling was 95% then all my previous riding on the Ducati has felt like 60%.
Destination: Wauchope. Fuel, quick snack, walk around stretch legs. 1/2 way through the day. It’s hot, I should have taken my jumper off.
Let’s turn around and do that again.
I’d checked out the route on the way over. Got a feel for the new setup, now we can have some proper fun. Nothing can go wrong as long as I don’t drop it. ‘What was that?’
‘What?’
‘That, you felt it didn’t you?’
‘No, it’s fine. It’s got to be’
‘There it is again’
‘Fuck’
It’s most definitely something. Why is the bike surging like this? Mid corner, full lean, another surge sending me right across the white line a foot into the oncoming lane fortunately I could see far enough to know it was clear.
Crook fuel, my poor baby has food poisoning I think. Thoughts of tow trucks, or sleeping on the side of the road haunt me for the next 10 mins as another 1/2 dozen sporadic surges mock me. If you stop it, you won’t restart it. But at the same time it doesn’t feel like bad fuel.
I pull over and try to diagnose an invisible, internal catastrophic engine failure with my eyes. But all I see is the quick shifter going mental. Even with the thread lock the strain gauge had loosened an 1/8 of a turn. Just enough where the engine power was being cut since the computer was telling it to shift down. Finger tight best I can do, 10 mins later another surge. Finger tight best I can do, 20 mins later…. Etc.
My earlier mishap sending me into the other lane + the concern I had over a disintegrated con-rod pretty much shattered any confidence of spirited riding til I got back to the next servo and borrowed a blokes spanner to tighten the shifter up a bit better. That’ll do, I just want to get home.
So, a little anticlimactic. But we’re all in one piece and the high of the journey east cannot be brought down by the western retreat.
It’s the longest day riding I’ve ever had too. 500km previously, today we were just shy of 750km (460 miles).
A bath for the 1299 to get all the dirt and bugs off and put her to bed. I honestly love that bike.
9.7/10 for today. Good night.
Wow, Andy,Shakedown day. The anticipation kept me awake for hours last night which was annoying because a) I knew I’d be awake at 6am to watch GP quali. b) I had a lot of K’s to do and I wanted to be fresh.
I needed a good result from my fixings and changings over the last few months. Particularly the geometry adjustments this week. So, nice weather, no mechanical gremlins and certainly not bloody highway patrol. Not too much to ask for really
Oxley highway specifically the 160km between Walcha-Wauchope is one of the top 3 roads in Australia to ride. 300 corners through a 80km stretch through the mountains and it’s been closed since March from the heavy rains we had causing landslides and boulders to render it impassable. Council recently reopened it a month(ish) ago so I’ve been waiting for chance to check it out again.
There’s a lot of boring, straight, bumpy, pothole, shit roads for me to deal with before I get to where I need. Around 200km if I had to say. Yep, unluggy. Squared-off tires anyone?
Scene set; perfect day. Mid 20s (73-80°f) slight breeze, not too much traffic.
Bike felt good from the start, ride and comfort were improved compared to before so I was confident but cautious. Can’t celebrate too early.
Skip to the first turn. Wow, that was stable. 2nd, same but faster, 3rd okay let’s add lean, 4th corner, I don’t remember having this much confidence in my grip. 5th elbow down. Just kidding! The corners start off (depending on your direction) longer and more open on top of the mountain. 3rd and 4th gear mostly for about 25km with gaps between so you can rest and have a bit longer to setup your position. After that it tightens up, most of the next 45km are tight, blind 2nd gear nimble little turns. One leading into the other. Awesome, exhausting.
Im startled when my knee hits the ground. It throws me off a good line and I’m annoyed. But it’s gone and the next corner is already in front of me, so focus Andy.
I could easily write a whole essay about all my thoughts but as riders we all share that knowledge already.
What I can say about my adjustments however. I’ve never had a bike behave so well for me, there’s still room for improvement obviously but if todays feeling was 95% then all my previous riding on the Ducati has felt like 60%.
Destination: Wauchope. Fuel, quick snack, walk around stretch legs. 1/2 way through the day. It’s hot, I should have taken my jumper off.
Let’s turn around and do that again.
I’d checked out the route on the way over. Got a feel for the new setup, now we can have some proper fun. Nothing can go wrong as long as I don’t drop it. ‘What was that?’
‘What?’
‘That, you felt it didn’t you?’
‘No, it’s fine. It’s got to be’
‘There it is again’
‘Fuck’
It’s most definitely something. Why is the bike surging like this? Mid corner, full lean, another surge sending me right across the white line a foot into the oncoming lane fortunately I could see far enough to know it was clear.
Crook fuel, my poor baby has food poisoning I think. Thoughts of tow trucks, or sleeping on the side of the road haunt me for the next 10 mins as another 1/2 dozen sporadic surges mock me. If you stop it, you won’t restart it. But at the same time it doesn’t feel like bad fuel.
I pull over and try to diagnose an invisible, internal catastrophic engine failure with my eyes. But all I see is the quick shifter going mental. Even with the thread lock the strain gauge had loosened an 1/8 of a turn. Just enough where the engine power was being cut since the computer was telling it to shift down. Finger tight best I can do, 10 mins later another surge. Finger tight best I can do, 20 mins later…. Etc.
My earlier mishap sending me into the other lane + the concern I had over a disintegrated con-rod pretty much shattered any confidence of spirited riding til I got back to the next servo and borrowed a blokes spanner to tighten the shifter up a bit better. That’ll do, I just want to get home.
So, a little anticlimactic. But we’re all in one piece and the high of the journey east cannot be brought down by the western retreat.
It’s the longest day riding I’ve ever had too. 500km previously, today we were just shy of 750km (460 miles).
A bath for the 1299 to get all the dirt and bugs off and put her to bed. I honestly love that bike.
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9.7/10 for today. Good night.
reading your post, I almost feel that I was riding on your bike myself, in fact I even felt worried (imagining myself at the side of the road far from everywhere) when you describe your quickshifter start making problem...
You know how to make your reader immerse in your story, (maybe you should also thinking of writing a book or a screenwriter), this must be your strong artistic side like the way you can draw beautiful pictures
Ducati seemed like a temperamental supermodel and thoroughbred, when they perform, they are flawless until they are well "temperamental" again
@BMW Alpina Thanks Howard! I had a bit of fun with that, had to get it all down while it was fresh. Certainly a day I’ll never forget and I reckon I feel about as exhausted today as those GP riders do hahaha.
Temperamental is definitely accurate. I knew at the time the bike was telling me ‘no, we’ve had our fun today. We both need a rest, let’s do it again tomorrow’.
Temperamental is definitely accurate. I knew at the time the bike was telling me ‘no, we’ve had our fun today. We both need a rest, let’s do it again tomorrow’.
Edit: I forgot to add to my ride review a key point!
Walcha might start to mean something for you guys when I say it’s the town Casey Stoner grew up in.
As I was refuelling there on the way home, a couple of young kids were checking out the bike and saw me in my red jacket so asked if I was him - I told them I wished I was!
Put a smile back on my face after the frustrations an hour before anyway.
Walcha might start to mean something for you guys when I say it’s the town Casey Stoner grew up in.
As I was refuelling there on the way home, a couple of young kids were checking out the bike and saw me in my red jacket so asked if I was him - I told them I wished I was!
Put a smile back on my face after the frustrations an hour before anyway.
