Joined May 2024
90 Posts | 24+
Canada
I went in for the bike's mille chilometro service today. I can finally rev the t!tz off her! They also installed the sprint air filter "FILTRO ARIA SPRINT FILTER P08" (P/N 96010131A) and open airbox lid "COPERCHIO FILTRO ARIA APERTO"(P/N 96010121B) for me.
Bike sounds much better now that it can breath, and induction noise now masks much of the desmo valvetrain noise, but the ass dyno is largely ambivalent.
I've almost convinced myself that Ducati has applied wheelie counter-measures from MotoGP to the 698's geometry; prioritizing acceleration and speed over hooliganism.
I often feel the rear wheel losing traction and rarely feel the front wheel getting light. Perhaps the Diablo Rosso IVs also have less grip than the MT-21 knobby tires on my 2016 KTM 690 Enduro R, which would happily wheelie and drift around corners in city intersections, and which also worked ok down to -20 Celsius.
PS: quick shifter ETA is still indefinite.
Bike sounds much better now that it can breath, and induction noise now masks much of the desmo valvetrain noise, but the ass dyno is largely ambivalent.
I've almost convinced myself that Ducati has applied wheelie counter-measures from MotoGP to the 698's geometry; prioritizing acceleration and speed over hooliganism.
I often feel the rear wheel losing traction and rarely feel the front wheel getting light. Perhaps the Diablo Rosso IVs also have less grip than the MT-21 knobby tires on my 2016 KTM 690 Enduro R, which would happily wheelie and drift around corners in city intersections, and which also worked ok down to -20 Celsius.
PS: quick shifter ETA is still indefinite.
