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NeilG

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I have 2014 Hyperstrada with 11,000klm
Ever since i bought this bike the centre stand has been dragging every time you get any sort of lean angle on.
On recent ride i could feel the centre stand scraping and when i arrived at my destination and switched off ignition engine oil starting pouring out near the centre stand bracket.
Upon inspection there is a crack/fracture in the engine casing just above the mounting bracket.
Took the bike to Ducati and of course they asked do you have insurance ....i believe this should be covered in warranty. If the stand has been scraping since the day i bought it ...there is design issue with it , if they are saying the stand has caused the fracture surely that means it should be covered in warranty ????

Has anyone else had problems like this ???

Really appreciate your feedback .....
 

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the scraping is on both sides of the centre stand ...i am amazed others have not noticed this as i'm not talking about the kind of lean angles Rossi is doing here .
 
mine is scraped badly too . i had to wind the suspension up to stop it hitting when going over large bumps
 
r3monkey ....just be careful it doesnt crack your engine ...heading to Ducati Bangkok this am to see what they say about it all ...
 
Neil, sorry to hear it.
The pictures aren't very good. I see oil but the focus is bad and can't make out area of fracture. Do you have any better shots?
I may sound like an insurance adjuster here, but, if cornering the bike till it scrapes parts of the superstructure leads to damage, probably going to say you were exceeding the limits of it's intended use...in America, anyway.

I mean, kickass for finding the ragged edge but there were a couple early test articles where they scraped up both sides of the bike on corners and didn't report any case damage. Regardless of what happens, would definitely recommend removing the center stand for future use.
 
I say if you're fitting a street-fighter windscreen, taking the luggage points off and removing the center stand, you bought the wrong bike.
 
the country roads where i live in the uk are renowned for being great biking roads ,lots of jumps hills and corners . In fact they are very much like the isle of man tt course to ride.
I have managed to bend both my wheels several times and even cracked a rear spoke due to riding hard on them .even then there are only a couple of places where my stand touches down when really going for it.. i made it happen a lot less by winding up the knob on the rear suspension
 
When I went for a test ride on the hyper I flogged it good and I never scrapped once....Wonder if you're going beyond the limits of the motorcycle.
 
my bike normally bottoms out when cranked over in a corner that has a bump in it , usually the same corner each time , i have learned to slow it down a bit there now.
 
Ok, so apparently I must be a real wimp then, or a very light weight body, or both, because although I normally flog my HS as hard as I can for at least a good part of each ride, always twisting the grip harder/sooner in corners in hopes of seeing that wonderful red light flicker from rear slippage (traction 1 setting, always in sport mode, more power sooner is better)... and I have yet to scrape anything that I have even noticed..... :-(
 
I used to slide the stock scorpions out of turns religiously. I can get my PR3's to do it occasionally. I've even touched my knee once or twice but never any sparks. I get way off the center when cornering hard and choose my patch of road wisely. I'm actually a bit scared of dragging the center stand because I'm worried it will low side. And I certainly don't want to destroy my exhaust just to show how much lean I got.

Not hating. But even when I'm cranked over getting stupid I have bags and a center stand and am still pretty impressed. Can't risk a dumb bike dump where I commute, either.

Long story short, if you drag removable parts consistently on your ride...remove the parts that are dragging.
 
gatdammit said:
I used to slide the stock scorpions out of turns religiously. I can get my PR3's to do it occasionally. I've even touched my knee once or twice but never any sparks. I get way off the center when cornering hard and choose my patch of road wisely. I'm actually a bit scared of dragging the center stand because I'm worried it will low side. And I certainly don't want to destroy my exhaust just to show how much lean I got.

Not hating. But even when I'm cranked over getting stupid I have bags and a center stand and am still pretty impressed. Can't risk a dumb bike dump where I commute, either.

Long story short, if you drag removable parts consistently on your ride...remove the parts that are dragging.
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+1 on that last statement!
 
just back from a vacation in Trentino in Italy with the most curvy and twistiy roads you can imagine, even much more twistier than our roads in the Alps of Austria,
I never scraped with anything on my normal HS, never alone nor with my wife, even my girlie-strip is only 3 mm thick.
Front with Andreani, back preload on click 10 alone and 26 with my wife.

what i can imagine - that in SE Asia they only build/sell the low model HS, because of the average size of people beeing a lot smaller in size than Americans or Europeans.
And of course, 2 cm lower bike much easier scrapes. But, thats just a guess.
 
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thanks for the replies guys

i would say i dont push the bike to its limits ....do we ride hard ...yeah i would say so but not to the point were its beyond the capabilities of the bike.

Just waiting for Duc in UK to let me know if its a warranty issue ...

We wait and see.......cant wait to get it back .
 
regardless of what happens....the stand coming off when i get bike back.
 
NeilG,
I think you have a legitimate complaint. My center stand scrapes consistently while riding under "less than extreme" conditions. I'm a bit on the heavy side @ 112kg, so when I get a passenger and some luggage on the bike it doesn't take much of a steep turn to scrape the center stand.
Last year during my 4500mi trip, my center stand actually fell off while using it at a campsite from one of the bolts backing out (the side opposite of where it usually scrapes). I havent put the stand back on since.
Keep us posted!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtNv5i9YJ_0



in this video, at minute 4:40 and 4:50, the HS scrapes in the light right turn in the bump. You even can hear it :D.
at my vacation week with my wife i had several occasions where this could have been happened, with much more incline than on the video, but my HS never touched the street this way.
Really strange why some HS scrape very easy and some not.
 
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