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Pompey

Joined: 31 Jul 2008
Posts: 2311
Location: Marlborough

Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject:

Front forks are Paolli and the rear shock is an Ohlins... great kit in its day but after 14 years they probably need help! _________________ Pomps Bimota's Db2, Db5 ,Ducati's 851' 92, 888' 93, Honda blade' 93, Triumph speed triple' 07, kawasaki zxr 750 k1

Anders

Joined: 05 May 2009
Posts: 121
Location: Norway

Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:26 am Post subject:

rpo83 wrote:

A few things i noticed very quickly:

I couldn't tuck my legs in enough to get the ball of my foot on the pegs, so i spent most of the day simply lifting my inside foot off the peg.

The fixed pegs freaked me out when it came to thinking about a crash, have any of you swapped them for folding pegs?

I have no experience with the sb6, but on my bb1 I'm very fond of the fixed pegs. Why should they be a problem in a crash? Actually, they will work much like a crash bobbin and save greater damage to the rest of the bike. When I crashed my bb1, I bent a footpeg and it's holder plate, but I'm sure it would have been worse with a folding peg.

On my bb1 the fixed pegs are mounted so high that I have no fear of touching them down while I still have the bike's rubberside down. I presume the sb6 is the same?
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rpo83

Joined: 28 Oct 2008
Posts: 387
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:03 am Post subject:

Anders wrote:

rpo83 wrote:

Hi Anders,

I remember seeing a picture of a crashed SB6, the footpeg had actually torn the the perch away from the frame, in the process tearing the fixing points from the frame!!

I was amazed that the perch didn't break!, but the leverage of the peg simply tore the mounts... Shocked

Cheers

Steve

Anders

Joined: 05 May 2009
Posts: 121
Location: Norway

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject:

rpo83 wrote:

I remember seeing a picture of a crashed SB6, the footpeg had actually torn the the perch away from the frame, in the process tearing the fixing points from the frame!!

I was amazed that the perch didn't break!, but the leverage of the peg simply tore the mounts... Shocked

Then I see what you mean. I had no such problems when crashing the supermono, but that was in a fairly low-speed corner so the bike didn't slide that long.

However, I have seen Ducati 916/748 frames with broken off mounts after fairly modest crashes.
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bb1, Mille S2, Guzzi / Watsonian, Morini Corsaro 125, EC200, RD350YPVS etc

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Joined: 22 Oct 2007
Posts: 508
Location: Stafford, UK

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject:

GeeKay wrote:

great track pics
I would never take my SB8R on a track day - but I do at least one track day a month on this

Think I took that picture!

All the best

Keith

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