What have you done to your Superduke today

Not today, but last night, I finally got around to doing the mod to derestrict 2nd and 3rd gear ECU sensor. Wasn't easy getting those 2 wires out, but eventually got 'em out. A noticeable improvement. Don't know why I was so scared to do it on the first day, being a new bike and all. Oh well. Anyways, glad I did it.

FYI: I didn't mark the connector plug, instead I took a picture and then made a drawing in case I would ever need to put them back. For example, if I had to take it in for warrany work. Not that they would deny said work, but why risk it.

Changed the oil and put away for the winter. Sad day...

Been riding it to work.

Started to strip back end down took loads of bits of to go to powder coating had my spare swinging arm done already

Actually at dealer since friday, going for:

- installation MH Airbox + Flys + SAS removal
- 40T Sprocket
- Disable de 2nd n 3th gear restriction
- oil and filters

Do you think it´s too much for the bike at once?
Will i recognize my bike or i´m gonna ride some kind of angry beast?

Luigy.

That's like asking if oysters, followed by sirloin steak, creme brule, then brandy, coffee and cheese selection is too much dinner. Of course not, just leaves you satisfied and content and wanting to do it again as soon as possible

Fitted new hangers and levers that have been powdercoated black

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jealous, me? yes very

have a good trip mate

Oooo ooo ooo what you getting next mister ? ? ?

Not decided. I really like the 1098SF but, as I don't ride on the road and I'm after more grunt, if I have to have a twin I should really just get a straight 1198.

Fact is I had decided that 09 would be the last year for me and superdukes, but I had that big crash and decided to give it another year. Well 2010 hasn't really been a good crack. First 6 months ruined with that shitty problem - I even paid £200 NOT to go to Jerez in May!

I think riding with that problem had a roll on effect as I really haven't rode well this year. A lot of the time I've not been really committed to the corner and well within my comfort zone - just like I had to ride with the problem.

So maybe I'll see how I feel over the winter, I have bought a motobox and done the mods recently, ut that can be sold easily.

Well today I....

took the battery off, lackered the whole bike in GT85, put some blankets and a tarpaulin over it.

All being well I'll be off to Morzine in a couple of weeks to work as a seasonaire, so the SD won't be seeing the light of day until March time.

Hopefully I'll have Wi-fi where I'm staying so I can still come on here and bore you all !

Last week I installed HID (xenon) and yesterday I went for a (very short) ride. It was 1 degree C.

I've got an 06, so I had plenty of room
I stuck it on the left side of the mask, under the tacho. I used .

Well the swingarm bearings and head bearings are freshly greased and all back on, now just waiting on bloody KTM for a few bits to complete the bigger tank conversion, rearsets to come back from the anodizers and then get it looking like a bike again

cleaned the tank and side panels, removed the reflector of the fork leg, and looked at it.
It gets better looking every time I look at it

Dropped her off at the shop today. The battery is dead and she is still running hot. New battery will be around $175. Hopefully my mechanic can figure out why she is still running hot. I'm hoping there is air in the system and it wasn't bled correctly by my previous mechanic. Should have the bike back for Christmas.

Cleaned up my rear brake caliper and replaced the piston seals in it, front ones tomorrow maybe.

Also finally put a new seal on the starter and replace some crimp clips with normal on the coolant hoses so i can get in there again if needs be.

Bike all back together tomorrow maybe! woot!

picked it up from having the new starter gear and casing put on/in, now starts without a suicidal clang

road it a while, didnt want to stop

Well I fitted a pair of Quill T3 pipes with a bit of persuasion and was worried the bike would not start as it had not been ridden in 6 weeks due to shit weather/work or fookin decorating. One touch of a button and fook A DOODLE DOO it started and was bloody loud to say the least. These cans are supposed to be road legal ..... anyhoo I let her idle for a little before giving it a blip of throttle and was frustrated at the thought of not being able to ride her due to the weather and shit loads of salt all over the road. I was also going to get in the battery compartment to fit the wires for an optimate and as I had never been in that area, I took a look in the manual to see what I needed to undo. It all seemed straight forward but I could not see how on the last stage you just fold a flap down to reveal the battery. Scratching my head, (and balls ), I'm thinking w.t.f and then realise my bike had already had the wires needed and followed the lead to find the plug in point for the optimate tucked up in the frame. My bike is a 2009 model and I wonder if anyone else has there bike wired up and ready for a charger, cos who ever did mine ( and I got mine from new) they made it impossible to pull the battery compartment flap down without having to clip a couple of ties.Anyhoo I get my Carpal Tunnel surgery done on both hands this Thursday, so they will be bandaged up and I will only just be able to wiggle my finger tips for the first week or so, and hopefully just be able to drive the car in 3 weeks. After breaking both arms last year, its amazing how few days go by before thinking about having a wank, and realising you physically cant

Made a radiator guard that looks very 2011!

Its nearly back in 1 peice and starting to resemble SD!

Called it several bad words, many times, over the last several hours....the cunt.

I started with this:



and ended up giving up for the day, beer was calling me, at this point:





Sticking a couple of new body panels on shouldnt be too hard even for a mechanical numpty like me......you may think

Here are just a few of the things that ruined my afternoon.

You may notice that the bike has moved from outside the garage, when black, into the garage, now it is half caste..... that is because it got dark whilst I was still dithering about

...And it rained On me Proving that it is God's will that I should never try to use tools.

Why? You may ask, the seat unit and side fairings are fitted ok.

Yes, but all I wanted to do was put the bloody, cunting headlight spoilers on. Evil fooking bastards that they are.

Started off ok, undo two bolts tip headlight assembly forward. Still in my comfort zone here.

Had to pull a few connectors off and get the Hids ballast and surplus wiring out. Starting to sweat a bit now as I never put this in and just know something will come adrift and I wont know where it belongs. Still it is hardly Danger UXB so I carry on.

Right hand side is connected by two screws, one is a tricky bastard to reach but I get there with one of those right angled screwdrivers and dont even drop the screw into the headlight assembly so I can spend an hour fishing for it with a magnet like I usually do.

Third connector is a little allen bolt that screws in from underneath into one of those spring clip fooking things that I can never line up. Guess what? I cant line it up On the seventh or seventieth try I ask God why KTM make bikes out of flimsy plastic and bits of non magnetic sprung metal.

(I know it is non magnetic as I have dropped it into the headlight cowl several times and tried to fish it out with a magnet the first time)

No answer from God so I leave that side and try my luck with the other side. This one has 3 screw securing it. One I can see, One I can barely glimpse behind two other screws holing some fuse box type thingy on that I will now have to remove at some point, when I am brave enough, probably late 2011.

The other screw is somewhere in the depths of the headlight assembly. I cant even see it. If I could, I couldnt reach it, you would have to be a gynaecologist (one with specially small hands think Anne Widdacombe's not Jordan's)

Then I get my answer from God, he pisses on me.
So I give up with those tricky bastards and race to slap the other panels on as it gets dark. Dont even have time to wash that EXC ol dirty bastard still the rain will make a start

I hate tinkering about with bikes. I am too old to have the blind optimism I used to start these projects with. Now I know my efforts are doomed as I remember my last failure and the ones before that

Will try again tomorrow...or alaldite the fookers on

This is what I did to the SD yesterday:

Rode my SD for the first time in weeks and since fitting my slipper clutch, 40 tooth sprocket and 180 rear spring.

Suter works great, gearing feels spot on and rear end feels good (considering the cold temps) - happy days - roll on spring

Fitted the lower engine r&g crash protector
Changed Oil and filters all ready for a little visit to mr klink one night for a tune ecu map

Oh and then a little ride around Epping forest

Removed air filter and TBs to tighten up a loose jubilee clip on a coolant hose that was leaking, oops, those things need to be really tight!

Also had an old battery on the optimate for a week to see if it would revive, no go, in the bin.

took my beat up SD to the dealer to get fixed. service manager is super cool and asked me what i wanted to do with it, total it or fix it. i told him i wanted it fixed since SD's aren't as easy to get around here, but i told him i would like the R tail section if i could and he said he would look into it and make it happen if he could. he's also going to put the lsl flat bars on for me.

+1 on that, be nice to get something good out of it.

I hobbled out to the car park on the crutches and lifted the cover. I was just really going to go fit the new tax disc that had arrived in the post but once in view I ended up hanging about just wiping down bits with an oily rag and dreaming of the day I get this fooking cast off for good. It's been about seven weeks now and I have a date with the hospital on the 27th so I reckon that will be it and I can get a left hand boot on and ride a bike with gears again. (Been on my twist and go Yamaha the past month or so), Got my SDR triple clamps to fit so I will treat the SD to that before we both get back on the road if I get the chance.

i didn't get a bionic hand but i did get some metal in there. a plate and screws. i just hope i'm not out as long as bic.

Took the license plate off yesterday, it's cracked so ordered a new one today.
Last saturday I got a standard exhaust, going to open it up, and take the cat and other restrictions out, when I've got the time.
And tonight I ordered a evotech tail tidy

just powdercoated my exhausts and sub frame not a great pic I know but when this shite weather gets fooked il get her out in the daylight

never heard of anyone powdercoating an exhaust before! hope it doesn't melt

i fit up my cox radiator guard and ordered the nichols kit......

Finally back in 1 peice and ready to rock





Roll on February and a couple of winter trackdays

Had some engine cut-out issues, so did the ol' BGC and while I was in there, I also took out the PCIII
Either the guys that mapped it, did so with track use in mind, or they are just plain incompetent, but on the street it rides better with the PCIII out

Added my Cox radiator guard.

Added a pazzo clutch leaver and a gilles brake lever, new sprockets and fiberglassed my R1 seat.
Dumped the superduke battle bellypan in favour of a stock item in the hunt for more ground clearance.

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Pretty easy to install, apart from the front SAS plate never want to see one again!!!!

An excuse to repost pics of my Mojo bellypan.







Sorry about the dirt. It's clean now.

Took it for its first MOT today. Sailed through. Test centre was part of a big Honda dealership - looked at the homdas and wasn't too inspired. The new CBF1000 looks like a transformer and at least a bit different, but looking at teh SD it had character in spades. Not got any major plans till it gets drier (maybe some case covers/savers) - spun up twice on the way to the centre.

I purchased the rim sticker kit (which was a little bit of a hassle to put on, but not terrible), then I changed the oil (in my kitchen) and replaced the stock oil level tube with some nice RC nitro fuel line. I didn't realise how poor the design of the original tube was until I went to pull it off of the barbed fittings, and it cracked into 2 pieces! The RC fuel line is a much better choice, and then you can make 3 of them for $1.20

Now I just wait for spring.....

I thought about it...

....its snowing.

Ordered crash protectors (both lower and upper), the SuperDuke R gel seat, an R&G tail tidy and a few more bits and pieces.

Next up: new Dunlop SportSmarts, Rizoma rearsets and folding brake/clutch levers methinks.

Dutch, is that a carbon parking permit holder or something on the front fender? Nice job holding whatever it is, in as little an eyesore as possible.

Installed the Nichols top triple clamp, rear shock height adjuster and a KTM Hard Parts bar mount.
I dropped the forks down about 3/8" and took it for a test ride.
It slowed the turn in as expected, making the slow and tight turns a bit easier.
Then adjusted the rpm's where it switches fuel tables with TuneEcu to clean up the throttle.
Gotta love TuneEcu, it really makes tweaks easy.

I got y LSL bars from Germany today, just got to look for set of mirors and fit them

Put a set of CF Yoshimuras' on .......LOUD. Draws waaaay too much attention! Will have to utilize the "Quiet Inserts".

I installed Daisy's battery, finished off her new number plate assembly, and took the bitch for a ride!!!!


First time since late November....fook me it felt good! And she was flawless...what a gal!

Just finished installing motobox kit ( 12.30a.m so i guess its "What have you done to your Superduke yesterday/today
Went fairly smooth due to the comprehensive install instructions. Thanks to all involved ,would have struggled without them.
Front SAS plate was harder to remove than replace , maybe i just fluked it
After reading numerous posts i ordered a set of tank brackets as well.Thought i,d give it a try just to see what all the fuss was about.
Put the rears in then checked the front.Perfectly in line ,bolt straight in ,job done ,30 seconds.
Did the install with a full tank of fuel(which i regretted at first )
But perhaps this stops the tank expansion issue.Maybe some SD riders need to MAN UP a bit more , and lift that heavy tank
Because of the time will have to wait til morning to sample the aural delights and the performance gains

Maybe the fuel tanks deformed by the telescopic lever? (Mine is very strong)

Funny you should mention that as mine is not there had the bike since new
Will abuse the stealer today

took it in for its first MOT

PASSED !!

funny enough the guy who tested it raced LC4's

Took it to the garage to get a few things sorted out under warranty before it runs out at the end of the month, exhuast heat shield, and the graphite seal on the exhuast, plus the big service, i'lll try and do all the servicing my self now the warranty is over.

Got the Shorai battery in the post yesterday. DAMN this think weighs close to nothing!! 704 grams on my scale.

Well yesterday I got it out of its storage place in the garage and put the Cox rad guard on along with some decals. Over the winter I fitted the MotoAirBox and the other items he sells in the kit. Also have a pc3, sprocket and reverse shifter to fit. Going to be a different bike from last year...Im excited, now it needs to dry out on the roads.

Hooked up a pigtail connection for the battery tender. Ran it from the starter relay as some others here on the forum have done (thanks for the 'how to' guys).

Got some Akras that need to go on too...they sure look the business & from what I've heard have a great sound to them......& then waiting patiently for the warmer weather. Will hopefully be playing in the dirt with the 300 in the next two weeks....roll on summer....whooohoooo!!!!!

oh yeah...anybody need a rear stand (can be used as a front too)?....I have a new one with adapters in the classifieds & no takers....c'mon guys, help me out!!!!.....cheers

Rob

Got a fair few carbon details. Bike's looking up. Not done yet though.

i got my mask assembled and fitted up, now i'm trying to assemble the top clamp and bars, can anyone tell me a part number or where to get the handlebar clamps that are anodised black?
cheers,
paul.

Upped the rev limit to 9900rpm (thanks TuneECU ) and dropped my forks down in the triples so they are flush with the clamps

Well not quite today but very recently, I've put on a evotech tail tidy. Like everyone say's it looks tons quicker, funny how it seems to look better on your own bike rather than someone else's. Anyway I struggled to mount the stock bicep builder without half dismantling the said tailtidy, but got in on and a happy job done.

Had some polishing action on the headers with Belgom and a rag. Mounted the headers, took the Akras out of the wintersleep box gave em a good clean and mounted em on to the bike.
Cleaned the chain and relubed it (it had some rust on it). Took the battery out and hooked it up on the charger since the starter only had power to turn the engine around 2 strokes.

Tommorow im gonna finish the Duke up with some cleaning and im gonna call my insurance agent to tell him that he's getting money from me again. (a TuneECU cable is on my list aswell)

Can't wait to hit the road with the Black beast.

I guess its only good for when you are not riding, right? Or does it have the same sticky properties as normal chainlube? I don't want ACF-50 splattered all over my Duke.

I have made raplacement from old speedo 06 to new 11 R speedo(all works except led for alarm is all the time ON) and today I hope I'll get new holder from guy with CNC for my new DUKE 3 mask............

Greetings from Slovenija

Finally had time to finish installing the evotech tail tidy
No numberplate yet, don't have proper bolts, but will sort that out asap.
I've spraypainted the spacers behind the numberplate light matt black.
Fitting was a little bit more work than I expected, but the result is everything I hoped for.
Some cellphone pics:



Nampus

^^^^^^
You've got a tail tidy, but still got a heavy ass.......

Gave my chain and sprox a proper good seeing to. Looks like they'll do for a few months more at max.

After having been in contact with a carbon part manufacturer about making some SD parts, my first aquisition has arrived,, heel plates patterened after the stock "plastic " bit's,,, very good quality and they fit right up, nice thick carbon,very pleased , now thinking of other bit's to send him,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and for FREE I can't go wrong ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Did a good 200 miles on some of Scotland's best roads....brilliant ride, apart from losing the front end twice on gravel/ grit.....did'nt go down though which is the main thing.....someone must have been watching over me!!lol

Yesterday I gave the bike another clean/wipe down. It was looking a little dusty and I still had a bit of road grime on the wheels. Looks much better now.
Also took the standard mirrors off, just to see how she looks, much better, time to order another set of bar-end mirrors.

Ive had to park my SD between two couches because of the Earthquakes weve been having! Something soft either side to fall on ha ha knowing my luck the fekn roof will cave in!

Fitted new front tyre and front wheel bearings yesterday, new tax and m.o.t today.Came hom from offshore on monday went to tax bike online ,oop's no valid mot had run out on september glad av never been stopped,I thought i mot'd in september!! pity they dont send u a reminder like u get with tax and insurance. and car clutch packed in on way hom from getting bike tyre fitted. Expensive month coming up At least the weather is getting better

Weather getting better here as well,installed me new carbon heel plates with some loctite to the threads,, ran bike to listen to the Yoshi's, whooohoo set my neighbors car alarm off when I went by ,, still too much snow and salt,sand around but it's in the 50's , looking up fer sure,,,,,,,,,

Well, not today, but yesterday I changed the oil and filter, cleaned the two oil screens. It was my first time, but thanks to jehadjoe's topic and the pretty good instructions in the manual it was quite easy to do. Just a lot more work than I was used to with my previous bike. With my honda it was a 5minute job. With the sd it took a little longer

DROPPED IT

not as bad as you might think, but was putting it on the rear paddock stand, thought i wont ask the missis to standby just incase, as i was taking the o2 eliminators off, and yeah as i went to lift it, it toppled, what a T"!£

only damage was scuff to the plastic r&g handle bar, and a slight scuff to the lower r&g (not to noticable) and the brake ASV lever on the end got scratched, moral of the story make sure you have someone standing by or by a Abba stand, and R&G crash protectors are FTW !!!

Washed the mud off.

Done a fair bit this long weekend.

Added extended chain guard which is a bit ghetto but should do the trick with reducing overspray.

finally got my pillion seat cover from germany last week it took 3 months to get here I'm guessing it came on a ship. Came unpainted so needed a bit of a spray.





Now to just fit my levers!

What a big license plate

Yeah they are basically the same size as a car one over here!

New bellypan fitted!!!

how did you get in contact with the belly pan guys?

I couldnt get the right code to send via their website... I would really like one of these.

i havent done anything today except for ordering a motoholligan box, sas plates and flies. Now i sit and wait for delivery to Australia.

I picked up my 3 new tyres from the post office. So cheap to get the from the US, even after postage and fitting, I will be saving around $150 a set. Postage only took 6 days!

Who did you get the tyres through ??

Well, not today either but I mounted up a set of cut slicks... A bit tall, though, at 195/65 rear, so I need to re-gear. An excuse for a new chain and sprocket kit! I am still trying to decide. I love the Akra's, but I cannot justify spending $1750 on slip ons(!?!?!!). It's between FMF's and Yoshi's. Having a tough time deciding.

Those with Yosh, do the round/oval cans look out of place on our angular bikes?!?!

And I'll probably do the motoHooligan box/block offs and butterflies soon, too.

Me Yoshi's IMO are awesome they sound great W/O baffles ,,,,for the price you can't go wrong,,,,,,,,,,made in the USA,,,,,my second choice were the MIVV"s

I rode mine, for the first time this year.

Dropped it off at the shop to have the 9k mile service done. It bothers me a little that is is not at home in the garage....

30 bucks to fit and balance each tyre?!!!!!!
surely not?

I have not bought the tyres through them, and that is ride in and ride out. Much better than some other dealers/shops around here. Granted if I bought the tyres through them it would be free fitting and balancing, but doing it this way I am still saving an easy $100 per set.

Even if I only ordered 1 rear tyre at a time (shipping is less with bulk orders), I would still be only paying around $190-225 per rear tyre all fitted up, where as those tyres normally go for around $280-$350 locally.

ride in ride out isn't so bad i guess, who are you using by the way?

paul

yes im going to put an order in soon myself for the rosso corsas, cheap cheap, i fit the tyres myself for free at local shop and i balance them myself, ill buy my own tyre changing machine soon and static balancer as well

Just using Pro Griffin in Kunda Park. I bought my SDR through them.

I can tell you what I didn't do today that I had planned. And I've gained a head of grey hair as a result. Didn't get new tyres fitted. 7,500kays including ten track days on these now slick as sh?t Dragon Super Corsa Pro's. They've have done me well but mate, talk about being on the edge of adhesion.... It rained heavily today and the road home in traffic was greasey. I don't honestly think I got a bit of grip all the way home. Right, time to get me some Diablo Rossa Corsa's fitted. I can't go thru those stress levels again.

where do we get those sweet belly pans?

oh and today i booked the bike in for a service at MPE... rebuilding the forks, shock, steering dampener, new slightly heavier springs (finally getting back to being fighting fit), valves done accordingly, replacing head bearing and swing arm bushes...

BTW does anyone know the spring rate for the 06 models front and rear?

and red, thanks for that site... i will be buying plenty of things from there... especially a couple of sets of tyres

thanks bert

and the spring rates for an 06?

.90 for the fork, 160 for the shock you want for an 06 right? How much do you weigh? I have a set of .90 springs I had removed from my thing if you want them.

Fitted new chain and sprockets yesterday and had to fit another set of front wheel bearings today after new 1s I fitted on friday collapsed!! last night. bad bearing? who knows fixed now tho! Not been a good week ,car in for mot needed 4 tyres, brake pads on back, bnew brak line, and clutch has packed in. I own a old crv windscrren got smashed 2day on way 2 pick up new bearings, only 3rd party insurance, £200 for new windscreen!! car going 2 cost over £1000 for mot & clutch replacment, and with road tax, front tyre, 2 sets of wheel bearings mot for bike av spent a fortune on motors this week!!! ah well rant over bike going great gonna b a granda again in about 2weeks lifes no that bad

Just balanced my throttle bodys, which as I now have a Motobox and Tune ecu took all of 5 min!

red you tyre slut you.lol I love my q2s... Have a lot of confidence in them... Not the fastest tip in but you can rely on them... Heck i can push these into a corner on the road... They let u know what's happening. And they wear ok

I have not tried Avon or Metzler yet, not on any of my bikes anyway.
I have run most recent variations of Michelin, Continentals, do not trust bridgestone anymore, too many bad tyres there, and have only tried 1 set of Dunlops previously (Roadsmarts, was not impressed to say the least). And of course the Pirelli that came with the SDR. Rode on a Shinko rear once, was quite impressed really for the $$.

Best all round tyre that I have used to date is the Pilot Road 2.
Stickiest tyre so far is the Pirelli,
Best compromise between grip and life so far have been power pures.

Life is boring if you don't try new things, you never know what you might be missing.

i just installed black CRG levers and a rizoma number plate kit, levers = 5 mins. rizoma kit 2 hours!

ordered an abba stand, since the bike is nearly out of warranty so I'll be starting to the tinkering on it myself.

wreaked one of my tank spoilers couple of weeks ago and could not get replacement grey one for less than £155 plus vat

So being a cheap skate thought I would just get any colour one cheap hmmmmm!

it arrived last week and looked awful so ching bright idea, why not just have all the panels painted and update it a bit

Panels back from bodyshop today in a nice bright white, put back on bike and must admit i am liking it.

So much so just order a set of yoshi carbon cans to go with the new look.

So one panel at £155 has no become £600 oh well it only money.


The panels are all now plain white and need stickers?
er indoors is liking the KTM chequered graphic kit (not 100% me though, think it might be a bit wannabe racer)
so choice is keep it sensible and get the 2009 white colour scheme original graphics or the SuperdukeR white scheme graphics

or take the plung and go with the chequered scheme. little more pondering me thinks
cheers

Please don't go for the chequered flag thing. Just do the original white graphics, looks much better! (but it's all a matter of taste of course)

Today I got a text from the local dealer that the parts I ordered where in. Fitted them this evening:



No more mirror mounts, because of this:


I like it

Seeing as i fell outta bed far too late to go to Rockingham Raceway I actually cleaned it, 1st time since September 2010 when it went off roading at Rockingham Looks so much better without a layer of mud on it





Stew

Looking better than the last time I saw it.

I like those flat bars Stew, where did you get them?

Dyno run, with a bit of playing around it ended up with just short of 120bhp

I actually rode my SD both days of the weekend............ yeeeeee haaaa she felt good....and naughty and on sunday I washed the bloody road salt off, sat down and watched the moto gp with Beeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr ..... BURP.......... pardon me

My number plate support turned up today, ordered my new number plate, going to order the indicators tomorrow am

I went and bent both wheels in a New York pothole. Front so bad that the inside rib is showing stress. I've sent the wheels for repair - lets see what this is going to cost. And to think that there was a set of wheels I passed on a few weeks ago on eBay - grrr - I've also decided to go with the Pirellis as my next tyre. I just hope i get the wheels back before my California Superbike school dates in May !!!!

that must have been one massive pothole. sounds worse than our cali potholes. $189 to register the bike last year and none of that goes towards fixing the roads. gotta love it.

I rode mine yesterday as well and put on my fresh from Hong Kong US$50.00 adjustable levers. Hate to say it but they feel and look as nice as the Pazzo's I had on my Ducati which cost me nearly 200 bucks -

I chose a shorty for the brake and a standard for the clutch - went on easily, look dynamite and work great -

I'll take a picture tomorrow and place it on the site -

Next is to figure out why my 690 SM is stalling regardless of whether the inserts are in the pipe or not - All the proper tuning has been done yet it
stalls without warning - other than that it runs great and strong

Steve

well today she got the moto holligan pack, (air filter, butterflies, bolck ofrf plates) fitter a get seat (SDR) and fitted a radiator gaurd, also gave it a good clean, glad it decided to rain all day today ir other wise it would have just been getting riden all day.

Now i just gotta get a new map for all the goodies fitted.

I've swore alot at it today...rounded the butterfly screw as I tried to swap them out whilst fitting my motobox......bloody nightmare....everything else was great, even the front sas plate was'nt too bad!!Ended up leaving the original flys in.....which is a shame....but the old screws were solid!!
Still....Im happy with the end result!! sound amazing....custom map coming by the weekend!!

Ha ha, those disney birds!! I missed mine when they flew for a while - but then agreed it was better without them.

Ash - your bike looks great! Goon one mate.

Had some whisky.
Fitted crash protectors, upper and lower, from R&G.
Fitted TechSpec Snakeskin.
Had some whisky.
Fitted carbon protection made by KTM Powerparts. Fit wasn't great. Swore a bit.
Fitted KTM Powerparts seat. Fit good. Swore less.
Had some whisky.
Fitted R&G tail tidy. Realised there was no way in hell my old plate would fit.
Ordered new plate. Swore a bit.
Did some other stuff as well, decals and whatnot, but those were the major parts anyway.
Now I'm going to have some whisky.

put the axle sliders on and went through all the spare parts i got with the bike. found some stuff i dont need and will be selling. anyone need some stock SDR rear sets?

Oh yeah, then had some Captain and Seven up. Yummy

Took it out for my first decent ride since I came off my Suzuki 7 weeks ago.
Love the SDR, absolutely nailed this one corner, made me feel like a god on wheels. Just perfect entry/speed/angle, then exit on 1 wheel. Bliss

I want to get some frame protection soon though.

After fitting the motohooligan box, removing the secondry air system and fitting some nice carbon FMF Apex exhausts....I took her to the dyno shop today, PC 3 fitted and advanced custom map.....now putting out 121BHP AND 75 ft/lb torque.....up 8 and 1 respectively......well chuffed.....sooooo much smoother now!!

yes please on the map

I'm so unhappy with the carbon protections and the way they looked on the bike - I thought they completely fooked up the lines of the bike. On a bike that, at least to me, looks like a Stealth Fighter, all those nice, sharp lines, they simply didn't work. For me, on a black SDR, anyway.

So, instead I've just placed an order for a Rizoma clutch cover, a Rizoma left side engine cover and a Rizoma front sprocket cover.

This is going to be one perfect SDR.

Installed the "R" tank protector, checked the TPS voltages (seems to be OK, 3,77 V full opened) and uploaded Klinck's map into the ECU. What a difference

I put on some new rubber. Very happy about that. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15823

Here is my dyno chart from yesterday - 2008 SD, MOTOBOX, GANG SENSOR REMOVED, SAS REMOVED,FMF APEX'S,PC3 CUSTOM ADVANCED MAP
Sorry about the small print......power was 113bhp..now 121bhp......torque was 74ft/lb....now 75ft/lb.

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How many Dyno runs did it take to get this result? Seems a lot of guys say forget a PC 111 and go with TuneECU. What do you reckon? I Dyno'd an R1 an few years ago and the rear tyre was knackered after the runs.

What am I doing.. Waiting for my driving license to be valid until 15. april.. The police took it away for 4 months because of speeding (108 km/h in town - 50km/h restricted - police officers stopped me) + 130.000 HUF = 680 USD penalty.
I would like to test Klinck's map soo much

The place was the end of the town with very wide 4-lane road.. Without kids, only cars..
My car license stayed with me luckily (took it for 1 moth)

Gave her a wash after letting the grime build up after at least 6 months.

Wish I could do that,,, not wash the bike as it is absolutly spotless,,,,, but stand outside like you TJ, in a fricken tee shirt it was like 34F here today,,,,,

One of the first few sunny days we've had this year, hopefully you've not got long to wait, it was cold here too only a couple of weeks ago

Well its not so much what I did to it today ,,still waitin on the foul weather to leave and be memory,so I put some die cut's on my three lid's,, orange on black looks good,,, but I did hear from Aaron and he's shippin me moto-box , fly's, and clutch cover out as well as a pre-filter, in orange I might add,, then the mail arrived,, black Oberon slave is here as well as a pair of KTM duel compound grip's,waitin on the bars now,, new job with a ton of OT, times short,, what to do with this extra cash

I picked up the forks at the suspension shop.
My 08 SDR's forks came new with no usable rebound adjustment. He had 'em close last season. Now I just need to get a bit more feed back.
( Did anyone back it up and watch Rossi save the front on the duck while he was trying to regain the position he'd just given up to Spies' at Lorsail.)
Front end tucked under big time and he and the traction control never lifted.
If he can't get the Duck sorted they might just as well quit moto gp , and go back to Worldsuperduck. ( where if there isn't someone riding a Ducati on the podium we will change the rules to rectifie our mistake!)

what have i dont today? nothing, but i did look at it.

plugged in tuneECU..... woop woop

Ahhh... Bike runs so much better now.

Just booked in for a new rear tyre to be fitted on Wed, probably get them to do an oil and filter change too while they are there, only like $30 + materials, and I CNBF right now to bother myself.

ordered a motobox, the long wait starts now

Fitted the Rizoma articles listed above. The fit was so much better than OEM KTM parts it's almost laughable.

I almost got caught by the mrs working on my bike when I was supposed to be working

I'd said I'd go to the supermarket if I wasn't busy.

She went off with the kids to a local soft play and so after the ups man eventually turned up to collect a parcel, I legged it out into the back garden and got the bikes out the shed to try out the latest downgraded driver for TuneECU, didn't solve my issue so I checked the time and figured I had plenty of time to finally get round to fitting my cnc triple clamp.

Was all going pretty well, I dropped the headlight mask down and then unbolted the bars and rested them on the mask.

I then set about the top triple, unbolting the lower handlebar clamp from it and removing the steering head bolt before undoing the 3 main bolts, unfortnately there wasn't enough clearance to get it past the steering damper so I had to remove this as well, this was to be my downfall.

Once slid off the top of the fork legs I unscrewed the switch part of the ignition from the main barrel and so now it was free from the bike and so I took it over to my shed, the ignition barrel is fitted with anti tamper bolts so I cut a big slot in both of them with my dremel and shoved a large flat screwdriver in there and they came out nice and simple, needed a fair amount of pressure to get em out though.

Bolted it back on to the new triple and rescrewed the switch back on to it and slid it over the forks but the head tube seemed to be about a mm out for it to slide over, I'd already checked the part number on it when I bought it to ensure it was the 06 version so I figured the forks had just flexed a little with the top triple removed, a little bit of pressure and a wiggle and it went on ok.

Unfortunately the only socket I had to fit the steering head nut was a 1/2 inch drive and my torque wrench is a 3/8th drive as I imagine most would be that go as low as 12nm, so I had a practice on one of the other nuts to try and feel what 12nm felt like, I then loosened it off again and did the steering head nut by feel, I doubt I'll actually ride it anyway before I get an appropriate socket for my torque wrench so it's only temporary, once that was pinched down to my approximation of 12nm I tightened the 3 main bolts.

I decided to bolt the risers in the most forward position available, so risers in the front holes and rotated so the offset is towards the front too.

Lined up my bars in the new style clamps for centre and tilt and have a sit on the bike, should be interesting to try em out, definitely further foward than before and with the flat bars on already it could well be a very nice position for track work but the proof will be in the pudding, got 3 other positions coming backwards to try if I don't like this one.

So I'm pretty happy with myself except now it is the time to refit the steering damper, which means refitting the bloody tank bolt.

Now on my original tank, I didnt have any problems once I removed the hydraulic ram but this spare one I bought is an utter fooking bastard a good 5mm or so out of line, after trying to unsuccessfully get it in the front by pulling on the tank I end up getting it on by undoing the rear bolts and getting the bolt started at the front and basically forcing the rear bolts into the rubber bushes on the rear mounts so the inside edge will mishape until the pin gets pushed back into the centre but the rubbers aren't really happy about it and I think one of the mounts has bent in slightly under the pressure of trying to mishape the side of the bush, not too worried about that though I have another set on my original tank and will probably just grab a set of MH tank brackets next time I or somebody I know orders something from him, or then I'll just have a go at modifying mine myself.

I'm really cutting it fine and I haven't been to the supermarket or anything so I frantically pack my bikes back in the shed and clear up my tools for the mrs to arrive home just as I'm finishing washing my hands in the loo, sorry love I didn't get time to go to the supermarket (or get any pictures to go with this thread )

Well today i picked up my headers and Y pipe from the painters.

fitted them and also my CF seat cowl.




All there's left to do now is put my front callipers back together fit them.
Also got to fit my stealth 40T rear sprocket and new chain then MOT!!

Your steed is looking pretty sweet with the headers like that Razy

yeah real nice! will the paint handle the heat ok?

is it ceramic coating or paint? I'd be amazed if paint could take the heat in the first foot of the headers leaving the cylinders tbh. Ceramic coating however will not be a problem.

well it looks very tidy mate... nice mods

Pics of the latest Rizoma pieces..

Just ordered my LSL XD2s and ASV shorty levers. Should be here in a week.

By the way, very nice bits, JP.

Dammit! I thought I was almost done spending mod money....

Just ordered all the bits for a waterpump re-build as all my coolant found its way into the oil system !!!

Great couple of write ups if it ever happens to anyone else

http://www.ktm950.info/how/waterpump/kt ... _pump.html

http://www.ktm950.info/how/waterpump/cp ... rhaul.html

It didn't run for too long before I noticed anyway

Nothing i had to get rid of it last year bloody recession, if i register myself as a bank will the government bail me out every time i get in the s--t ?

Not today, but yesterday....rode in to work. Got off early(while it was still light out), so I decided to take the scenic route home.

I went through Little Tujunga Canyon. GREAT road, and noone in front of me the whole 20 miles through. Awesome. Anyone in SoCal that hasn't ridden this road, make a ride of it. The SD was made for roads like this...tight sweepers, long fast sweepers, a couple good straights, etc. Just plain fun.

Then I took her home & gave her a good bath. I fookin love this bike.

Spent two hours failing to cure fuel tank vacuum/fuel loss through front lh vent/drain - no kinks to either vent/drain hoses, blew tank cap and both vents/drains through with compressed air, removed tank cap rubber and cap 'bung' to rear rh vent/drain etc, etc all as previous posts and still not solved - only had this problem since I laid the bike on it's side last weekend to avoid draining oil to replace clutch pushrod/check Sigma clutch - time to reread Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...............

It's peeing fuel? Mine used to do that all the time, especially in the heat. I took some rubber parts out of the cap and now it doesn't pee (although it probably would through the cap if I crashed). If that's the problem I can send some details about what I did.

Saw your post, did that but no joy.

Painted my R1 based bikini fairing and tail piece Ford Electric Orange.

Bought a new battery. $100. Got stranded on my way to meet friends for a ride yesterday. My friend had to come get me with his truck so none of us got to ride. Tomorrow I will install along with the battery tender my friend gave me.
If you buy a new but sitting around bike make sure you have the dealer put a new battery in it. The lady at the battery place I go to said they are only good for about 6 months without being used.

Look what I got today




Just waiting for my Motobox now, I ordered it the same night as the pipes so should be soon

Yes, It's a nice drop on a hot day (or anytime really)

Having been out and enjoying my bike to the full whilst the wife is in Sydney. No "how long have you been" or shit, and I cleaned her up nicely for her service on Friday. I think if you present your bike clean and sparkly, the grease monkey might take a bit more care

Put the battery on charge after finding it was only charging at 12.32 while running. I'm hoping it's the rect/reg so it'll be a warranty job, trouble is it'll take a fortnight for my local stealer! So....back to house decorating, ho hum.

Got the Motobox and sas plates this afternoon , so keen to test it out.

New set of Rosso Corsa's
Restored battery and oil to full health
MOT, Tax (soon)
It's ready for a four day thrash round Wales on some of the best roads this country has to offer in the company of a few biking mates in about a weeks time.

Will feed back on the DRC performance after the trip.

I do like those yoshis I do I do. How muchos?

I do like those yoshis I do I do. How muchos?

Finally got round to spending some quality time in the garage with my SD. Fitted & wired up the smoked LED tailight (actually turned out a breeze to fit...but I gotta confess, changing the slip-ons at the same time was great help....I could lower the duckbill & getting to those bastard bolts on the tailight was a piece of cake), the Akra slip-ons & got the power outlet for the gps all wired up & mounted. Will try to get some pics up tomorrow. Man those Akras sound friggin awesome!!!...can't wait to test them out.....rain, rain & more rain looks like the next clear day will only be next week some time.
And damn!!!! does the stock muffler system way a ton!!!!....I thought you guys that had replaced them before were taking the piss a bit...That set-up could anchor any small boat no problem.

l8r guys.....cheers Rob

I actually got to see it today !!!

Having spent the last 4 month in the Alps I returned late last night, first thing this morning I went over to the workshop to see how the SD had held up to winter hibernation.

Looks OK couple of fastners looking a bit crappy but other than that OK. Spent ages trying to find the key, eventually turned up in the tool box ! However I can't find the battery !!!!

Will have a look at home later.

rode it again after weeks not, due to slipping a disc the last time i went for a ride on it and could not get off when i got home

oh and tried out the new go pro handle bar mount

Finally fitted the HM Quickshifter (no thanks to HM for pissing around sending a left hand grub screw )

Also junked the secondary flys and put Klinks mapping in with TuneECU.

Now i just need a test ride to see how it all goes/works

They charged me for it, then told me theyd sent it, then resent it when it didnt turn up, then when it did it wasnt even a grub screw, just a left handed thread off cut

Il be emailing to ask for my fookin £5 back! (and no, im not a tight arse, but i aint payin a fiver for an off cut which i could have knocked together).

On another note, the KTM specific loom that came with the quickshifter, were your wire to plug connections hanging out of the plastic connection plugs? I had to push them all in myself and seat the small rubber waterproof sealers into the holes properly. Ive spoke the Fuel about this and his was the same and hes had 1 loom fail because of it

coolant passages cleaned
warning - pictures are from my phone - iffy quality

per the recommendations of the collective ADVrider (lots of KTM9xx riders) I went and cleaned the coolant passages today. This is what greeted me when I pulled off the water pump cover.



another angle




And the inside of the cover looked no better



What drained out, before any clean water was applied



Cleaning as per recommendations



I wish I had done this sooner as KTM seems to have forgotten. For those that just picked up their new toys, Steverino and Turbo, this might prolong the life of your water pump shaft / seals.

Just hoping that the seals can hang on for the season.....

What the heck is that crap. I'm glad the previous owner of my bike flushed the cooling system.

Friday I fitted my CRG lanesplitter bar end mirrors and CRG levers and today I finally tackled the SAS system and got rid of all that crap. Not as bad as I've read getting to the front cylinder (loosening the oil tank/radiator helps a lot). Sorry I have a picture of the levers/mirrors but not one with the SAS removed. I've had the bike about 18 months now and only just started modding in the last month or so. Why did I wait so long!?

After the winter doldrums It's finally ready, for now.

BST Carbon Wheels
Mivv Exhaust
Carbon Fiber Air Box Mod with 2ND Flies
P&P Rearsets
Rizoma Bar End Mirrors
Aceribis Hand Guards
MH Tank Brackets (What a relief)

Refitted the battery (twat of a job) fired it up after 4 months sat on the garage, rode it round the carpark and put it away again.


Will be taking it back to the UK next week, must get some insurance sorted so I can ride it at least once before Cadwell !

Washed and polished it.. Shame I am on duty

All ready for the rizoma footpegs and brembo sc pads this week

LOL your alright... No what's new with your superduke?

A few goodies just arrived this afternoon...

It's like Christmas, love superduke goodies!!!

Tank bag is really nice, like how the bag and base zip together so the base can stay on the bike, has a hole for the gas flap. Not sure how much the touring windscreen will help deflect wind, but it was cheap and doesn't look out of place on the bike. Also got an oil filter cover, bar ends and swing arm covers. Brake and clutch reservoir covers are on backorder, along with the R&G rear axle sliders.

nice bling!
let us know how the touring screen works out?

all i've done in three weeks is mount the rear tyre and rear brake rotor

Installed the radiator guard that came with the bike. I'm going to have our artist at work make a "R" stencil for me so I can paint it onto the guard, orange or course. Give it a little color. Was going to do that first then install but I was bored and wanted to tinker with the bike.

I finally got around to changing the sparkplugs...its the 2nd set...this one now after about another 20,000 k on the engine, I thought it was time.......used my ground-to-fit socket....it worked well...but the access...what a pain....I could not believe what I had to remove in order to get easy access to the heads...I had to remove basically everything that sits on top of the motor...and reinstalling it all was an even bigger pain...Next time, I've got to find a different approach to that front cylinder, one that doesn't involve removing so much..then I rebuilt the fuel pump ...the filters were filthy...the two jobs plus a bit of very minor maintenance took me all afternoon...but it was raining anyway...

this arrived

Ermm nothing, cause its on a pallet on its way to Jerez



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Just got back from taking her out for a nice 40 mile loop after installing the Akras....the rain has been crazy the last couple days on the East coast. The revs seem to pick up a lot quicker & does she purrrr...wow...they sound awesome!!! & I love the rumble & crackle when you get off the throttle. Was gonna disable the SAS (probably still will) but for now I'm kinda loving the snack, crackle, pop.

Off to pick it up from my dads workshop where it has been stored over winter. Only seen it once since October .

More like "what I have to do" or install,,,,moto-box,,SAS,,, moto's awesome clutch cover,, Oberon slave,,, LSL dragbars,,,,and another e-bay winning bid of a carbon rear fender, new 125 bucks and a set of black Pro-Bolt's for the motor,,,,,,,,but ,,,I have to work tomorrow,,,,,,,

Fitted Titanium Full Evo system today. Easiest thing in the world to fit, they really are. Also oil and plugs change and uploaded new map to ECU. Bike seems to rev faster with new headers. The map may have a couple of flat spots but that should all be fixed with some more dyno time. Very happy chappy

Pics Klink

sold my SDR tail..... a truly sad day


did take the missus out for a razz on the back of my new 2-seater SD though

Installed the Motohooligan clutch cover yesterday evening.

Not today but yesterday.....

loaded it in the van ready for it's return to UK, just need to sort some insurance now !

Changed the parker bulb to a red one, on the 06 you have the light selector so you can have the parker on

The things you do when your bored...

Thought about riding it. It snowed yesterday morning and this morning, but temps are slowly climbing back up now.

Commute at license losing speeds and a small grocery run. Thing just keeps getting better and better...

Well today I got myself a PRO-TAPER Carmichael contour bar and stuck that on to my beast.
I didn't like the bend that the rizoma offered me so I got this one..






thing is I keep it at 800mm wide and I'll give that a go before I cut them down,but I like the wide stance on them.
is there any advantages or disadvantages to having them wide than normal.haven't gone for a ride yet maybe on Sunday I'll take her out for a spin and find out what there like..

Dropped it of at the dynoguy on wednesday. Just got of the phone with him, picking it up tomorrow..
It's an 09 SDR, motobox, sas delete, 2ndry flies removed, round akra cans. I had shades map on it already before I dropped it of. It made 125rwhp and 113Nm torque on that map. After custom tune with the orange pre filter on the motobox it went to 127rwhp. He then removed the pre filter and started fresh, making final numbers 133rwhp and 118Nm torque. Pretty pleased with those numbers, but also surprised that he found another 6rwhp by removing the pre filter, that thing holds back quite a bit of air as well it seems.

Well, it was yesterday but had the Oil Site tube replaced as mine cracked near the top.

2007 Superduke 10,100.

TODAY I will be washing off the oil.

fitted some rizoma footpegs, wrong colour so the company is sending me another set in the correct colour FREE !!!

Well ,no work tomorrow ,,so ,,, I just recieved my e-bay purchase of a carbon rear fender,, that along with moto's clutch cover , may go on in the morning,,more rain forcast,,,,could be I install me LSL drag bars too,,,,need to get out on this thing,,,,,,,looking real good,,,,,,,,

Managed to grind my peg in the Cairngorms whilst chasing a 'Busa

Played wait up at every stop sign for my buddy on his Buell through the twisties. Only 2100 miles on this bike, I'm really impressed... And not to mention all the looks and praise I get from strangers.

I dropped my seat off to these guys who are out of Tucson, for a redo. Since my 130 pound boney ass will have to deal with 300-450 miles a day soon enough. It certainly will look different.. Will post when it is done in about 10 days.
http://kontourseat.com/index.html

Anyway I noticed Samba had used a LED strip system on his single seat and as I had some orange LED strips in the pits, I decided to see where they would fit. As it turns out they fit perfectly between the plastic under tray and the rear light lens I'm pretty pleased with the result and they are def very visable which has to be a good thing safety wise. Whether they are legal is another matter entirely Any ideas Superdan?? I might pop down to my MOT guy and ask what he thinks. Although thye look a bit red in the vid they are def very orange. KTM orange you might say

first service for my babe today , now we shall see............................

Klinck I really like that,,,, I think it would pass in Mass

this... only photos I have ever got on the bike... wish I knew that they were (photographers)





and yes i had just passed the hyabusa at the entrance of the tightening radius turn... the corner goes a fair way more round

I gonne remove my rear-wheel in about an hour, and lay a new tyre around it
Last ride i got a punctured tyre... tyre was brand new (like 700 km's)

Got my bike back after having its mumpy tank replaced. Of course, its raining today, so I probably won't get to ride.

Joe and I were going to ride but this rain is killing us. Hopefully next weekend will be better. I'll give you a call when I find out the day.

Done nothing on SD Waiting for rain to stop...
Take some time and cleaned leather suit then then put a leather conditioner on it.
Also washed helmet inside and outside.

And now we must wait for sun

Was GOING to put in the Motohooligan tank mounts, but decided that if there's no other reason to lift the tank, why would I take the chance???

New footpegs, Custom spray job, Rim tape, New engine bolts, LED indicators, Red hoses, Powder Coating etc, etc ,etc

I satill need to put grip heaters on the new bike. They come in handy on the morning ride to the twistys.

My DHM pegs have arrived, so off to go fit them.

Integrated Led Taillight + some tail tidy

What the hell is that billboard thing stuck to your swingarm? And where is your license plate?

I put on a set of Symtec heated grips:






Easy fit and still the original grips.

Just got my ECU cable and flashed over drswade's map for similar setup (08, motobox, leos, pump gas) and WOOHOO is all that can be said after the tedious 15 min reset.

gotta say that T-ecu had some tech probs on my laptop...would freeze occasionally, needing restart of program, but managed to display all transfers successful and boy what a success

Big thx Rob my man

nothing, again! still! this sucks, i'm over waiting now!

went for a mad ride around mt nebo, new rim tape too.

Got my duke a week ago.The next day after I git it the wind starts blowing to 40mpg.Finally got a day off.Went out this morning with a buddy.Got out on the back roads.saw 117 mph was not trying to go fast.Had lunch at the ghost town. It was a great day placed the order for my FMF apex pipes.There on back order!.Going to order my motorbox later.LOVE my duke it's everything I hoped for.Can't wait to get all the goodies and put them on.

also fitted the Mr Z32 dvs system for testing, check that tread for results

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Installed the MH air box today and loaded Klinks map. I want to take a second to give the front SAS a big for being a pain in the ass. While in the process of installing the box I managed to lose one of the oxygen sensor bolts. After spending about a half hour looking for the thing I gave up and looked around the house for something that might fit. Got lucky with a picture hook

^ ^LMFAO!!! Nice work, Keo.

All I did to mine today was give her a good cleaning, topped off the oil & coolant, and took a 'lil blast. The wheelie talk earlier got me all uppity.

I feckin love my bike more every time I swing a leg over it, no kidding.

Yesterday, I put a SD-R seat kit on my SD. I love it. I also recently put on a Motobox, SAS removal plates and resistor, Yosh pipes, KTM rearsets and removed the PCIIIusb, remapped with TuneECU and James map I believe. Runs great, current version of my SD....

Rode her to the top of the world - well almost . . .



Crappy i-phone pic, but this is the view from the look out at the end of Hwy 39 N of Azusa near the Crystal Lake turn off. The altitude was 5000 ft + above the gloomy cloud cover. LA locals owe it to themselves to take a ride up here - but keep it on the DL. We don't want too many squids finding out about this wonderful road.

I finally rode it yesterday, I expected it to suck, as the thing is rock hard, but amazingly, it is pretty comfortable. It looks so good, I really don't care, but it is a bonus that it is comfortable-ish. Definitely not plush. Funny thing, is I went up to a track day, and got the suspension set up on the RC8R, then I rode the SD up to test out the seat. Lots of anger over me having 2 KTM's, especially the RC8R Akra and a sweet SD. Life is hard. Most folks loved the Duke almost as much as the RC8R.

I pulled a fookin nail out the rear tyre and put some "slime" in and all was well. I did not know you should not go above 45mph with the "slime" in the tyre as I did the same thing a couple of years ago and gave it full blast and all was ok then

Pulled the rear shock and dropped it into KTech for a rebuild (no more leaky shock )

Grendel finished his Brembo Monoblocks, complete with Orange Brembo script!

Grendel is a beast of many talents. He did it himself.

actually went for a fookin ride!

Ordered some ASV C5 shorties.

Did my 1st oil change as its out of warranty now.

Sam, that SD is looking pretty good sir.

I did the oil breather mod 10 days ago. This is how much oil has been collected so far. A couple of spirited blasts and some town driving. Prob in the region of 350/400 miles.

what were the numbers that came up? just out of curiosity

just waiting for my stealer to come back to me on that. He did tell me at the time and said they were spot on. Both cylinders were within 1 PSI of each other.

cool, post it up when you get it....

Since this is the" what have you done to your superduke today" thread, Today I paid for new tappet cover gaskets and got braded line and alloy fittings and a two way breather... im about to drill and tap both tappet covers to vent both heads to get the top of the engine breating better.

Ill do a post of it in the DIY section.

Removed my fies and shaft....ready for custom dyno map tomorrow

From the look of my Motoholigan Air filter I need to do the breather mod (covered in oil ) I thought I had a weep comming from engine sprocket area

just the odd spot on the garage floor, I never could find where it was comming from.............. think I know now

Has anybody else had this?

I got a paint pen from a local craft store when I did the Brembo script on my old SD. I haven't gotten around to doing the SDR though. Maybe I'll go do it right now before bike night. Got off my lazy butt and went out and took the 5 minutes to get it done. Had to clean it up for bike night anyway.




even did the little guy in the back


put my tank pad on too. wasn't really sure where the side pieces go but it works.

I picked up my Kontour seat today. I ordered it with an extra half inch of height and with a straight profile. It weights in at 4.7 pounds (2.1 KG) and looks to be made quite well. I will not be able to say how good it works till a full day of riding, but it feels great around town and after an hour in the Tucson sun it felt strangely cool. http://kontourseat.com/index.html

The seat looks good soarsore

Bike on dyno and custom map created by Rider's

..its .05 SD Motorhooligan Air Filter, Akras, SAS, Flies and Shaft removed

got 122.33bhp and 76ftlbs with a near on perfect air/ fuel ...flat line

Now smooth as ....no more throttle problems a different bike

Colonel

No problem.....you actually gave me yours last year when I first put my Motohooligan on


Sorry its a PC111 ...Tune ECU is the next change...after the breather mod

That's not a problem as it can be combined in TuneECU. Was the base map the Akra map?

Have PM'd you my email.

Base map was yours...............

Sorry what I meant was what map do you have in the ECU? Standard or Akra map?

Not to sure (second hand 1600miles) ....I pulled the wires on 2nd and third gear just for good measure

did it have after market cans fitted? If so I'd guess its the akra map. Does make a big difference for hosting the file though.

Slapped a set of Tech-spec tank pads on after recieving them in the mail today, along with a clutch cover gasket, now off to install me motohooligan clutch cover as well,,,and UPS showed up with a set of ASV grips so I guess I can now install those LSL bars too,,, 7AM tomorrow gonna fire her up and hear those Yoshi's

Yesterday I played around with TuneECU. Just wish this weather would sort itself out so I can go find out what its like with the updated map.

Spent a couple hours today playing with a MV Augusta Brutale 910. Was a good bike to ride with, similar style to the SDR (it was eve orange), did not sound anywhere near as good though, or have as much stomp as my SDR.

Still, was a good day out, now I just need to go and adjust my chain, and figure out how much more life I can coax out of this rear tyre. Damn V-Twins just eat tyres, looks like I will only get 3000km out of a rear, but I am doing my best to save front tyres

Awesome morning out around the coast. Sticking to our 40mph speed limit all the way......honest!

Went out for a blast to test how it works after my TE updated. The word smoooooth comes to mind, plus faster to rev.

But, I noticed that it was popping on decel hell of a lot more than it was before I did it, so thinking put it but to my original map and one by one redo to in puts to see which causes it to pop more. But thats for another day.

Also decided that I need a damper as had quite a few head shakes when making ground over bumpy roads.

Caused no problems but would prefer it not to happen.

Went for a great canyon blast.

Rode several wheelies.

Put it back in the garage.

Grabbed a beer & grinned.

Replaced dead dash at 31.5k miles having spent most of the weekend ruling out/swopping out battery, rectifier/regulator, wiring, connectors etc - used unit showing 4.5k miles .................and new Brembo pads all round from www.moto-racing.co.uk - slower delivery than indicated and difficult to get hold of as a Google search will indicate but at half RRP, I'll use them again.

Crashed it......First crash in 20 years.....

The bike is damaged bad. Steer broke of, clutch cover is smashed, waterpump is gone, radiator is broken, scratches everywhere.

I am ok, only broke the big toe of my right foot...But i am in plaster till my knee!!!!

I am lucky it happened at low speed , and nobody else was around. I fell just before a corner, do not know why.....Now I really appreciate the suit/helmet/boots.

Damn, Alpine, that SUCKS! Front brake induced lowside? Out of curiosity, do you have frame sliders on the bike?

Get better quick, bro. You and the bike!

Now paint is done and gone off properly an outside piccy of my invisible pillion pegs (well nearly)

Fitted my new ASV shorties. Would have taken about 20 min to fit, but me being me I didn't take all the tools that I needed, so ended up taking just short of an hour.

yeah ya barstard... texting me that pic while I had been doing assignments all day.

Im gonna send you one... same place tomorrow. lol

I'm looking for fork seals for my 06, the left side one leaks badly
A local dealer has the 2 seals + outer dust-seals for almost 84 USD for the 2 forks.

How hard to change them?

I have an offer for 70 USD for install them..

Update:
No crashprotection installed......

What probably happened: was going over some speedbumps in second gear. On the last bump I think I accidentally hit the gearshifter with my foot and shifting down without noticing. Going down the bump (wich was a high one) I accelerated to the corner thinking it was in second......Made a big wheely, almost over the top . Braked hard and got down hard and rolled of. Suddenly I was in someone's garden, just missed a lamppost and stopped rolling 20 cm's before hitting the wall. Today I got new plaster, only my toe and the front of my foot now. The world looks a lot better now.
Most annoying is that my mother in law keeps on trying to convince me to stop riding motorcycles

A fresh set of dunlop sportsmarts and upgraded the rear sprocket with 40t. I'm lovin'n it! needs to be oem imho

Finally had time to take the catalyser out of the exhaust, all that's left to do now, is have it welded shut again. Which will probably happen next week, then fit it, and hopefully enjoy the beautifull sounds of the superduke...

Gettin ready to pull the rear wheel for a new tyre today - Saturday. Did the front a week ago what a difference a tyre can make. Didn't have the money for Diable Rosso Corsa's and picked up a pair of Dunlop Q2's for 199$ . Was already running Q2's and felt pretty confident with em - stick pretty damn good , never let me down .... I loose noticable rubber every time i ride with them so don't get much mileage . I ride to hard to not have good rubber.
ciao
Oh - did some paint work on the SD last week as well

johnny

Today I hard wired my Escort 8500 radar detector to the SD, as well as installed a Moto Hooligan clutch cover and KTM rear axle sliders. Last week I put on Leo Vince slipons, LSL frame sliders, Pazzo levers and orange clutch & brake reservoir covers, and took off the passenger pegs (when I want to take my wife for a ride we'll go on the cruzzi guzzi). Yeah, I've been busy. Now I need to get the mapping sorted and start thinking about a freer breathing airbox & filter.

Noob did minor stuff , lost the Emission Crap and Put some LV CF on the Orange Juice

Swapped my custom carbon cans out for some round akras, never thought I could ever say I was happy to have quieter pipes but I am

It's not what I did,, it's what I finaly ordered for her,,,, ordered up a pair of 2RT rad guards out of carbon/kevlar mix, to match the oil tank protection already installed,,,not cheap shipped over , but had to finnish it up,,,, next is a set of rotors,,, Brake Tech,,,,,,,

(Yesterday) Fitted up some bar-end mirrors and a new headlight bulb & took her for a good ride.

Shat my pants a little bit when I hit some gravel going around a 45mph corner & had the back end step out and slide some.

well i fitted my new rhizome footpegs , but due to a mix up with the company i ordered them in black, and they sent me silver, so i called them and what do you know they sent me a free set of black rizoma pegs

so now the dilemma is what colour do you recon ?

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got my new hf carbon fibre heel guards... very nice... 1 month wait

Did Cadwell Akras Motohooligan Air box they even had the prob next to the exhaust (is ment to be 1m away)......95dB(A).....

Hey rallsy, the silver ones look good. Then again, if you were to powdercoat you rearsets black....

The black foot peg looks pretty sweet . It's gona get the anodizing worn lookin after a short while . the silver might look nicer longer. Unless you ride with just socks on.

Me - been ridin the hell out of my SD lately - got those new skins front back - painted fender / headlight bucket / chain guard / Bought new signals ( need to mount ) and will say i got the Chicken strips on the Q2 tyres down to a fraction (Bragging of course - which is stupid) but Q2's tread wraps around the tyre more than other brands making it quite the task wearin those Chickens down , surprised myself how far the bike was layin over a couple times and still a smidgen of chicken to eat.

Gettin ready to go on a 400 mile round trip to Yosemite with a buddy / him on his Multi-Strada this comin monday tuesday -

ciao

johnny

Yosemite, eh? I camped there about 3 weeks ago & it fookin snowed on us... It was an amazing place, though. I would LOVE to ride the SD down to the valley floor.

Enjoy the trip! And post pics, as well...

Fitted the mojo belly pan yesterday, the rear brackets have to be the worst possible design ever, you're supposed to attach them to the engine mount bolt on the right hand side and the side stand bolt into the engine on the other side, both bolts are supposed to be torqued back up to 45nm but the brackets once fitted and positioned don't allow you to be able to get to the bolts properly to torque them up.

Instructions say don't tighten all the way till you mount the pan and that they might need bending to fit, I'm thinking a little tweaking but no, the right bracket bolts on fairly easily with a socket and ratchet but the hole in the bracket is about two inches away from the fixing on the belly pan so you have to bend it in so it reaches the hole and at the same time get the angle of the end bit right so it doesn't flex the pan into the headers, so I bent it all into place only to find that now I can't actually get to the bolt at all to torque it up properly as it's blocked by the bracket so I pull it all back out again, torque it up and start again, so that's right side done.

On the other side, the bracket is a squared u shape coming up in front of the bolt you're fixing it with and so you can now only get a spanner on it but on locating the fixing on the belly pan I find it lines up pretty easy.

Trouble is with the pan attached I now can't get the angle on the spanner to tighten up the nut so I have to remove it again, then I find that the bracket is so close to the nut and the nut is also so close to another part of the side stand that I can't fit my ratchet spanner in there and my std ring spanner is a drive on flats type and so there's not enough room to turn the nut enough to get the next position on the spanner, I get it as tight as I can with the tips of the open end of the spanner but can't get full puchase because of the room available but will remove and retighten when I can get my hands on a ring spanner with a multipoint corner drive ring on it (if you know what i mean)

It seems to me like it would have been simple enough to bend the bracket in a different way to retain easy access to the bolts and i may well have a go at reshaping them myself when I have some more time but I just wanted to get it on so I can check ground clearance at Brands on Monday cause if that has been compromised then it's all null and void anyway.

And then just to finish off, i drive off to Stupid Lukes to borrow his garage again to swap all my springs over for heavier ones, and can't get it back into first at the roundabout, it had felt akward to engage first when I set off, but I was wearing new boots and not my sports boots so I figured it was just that, it took a firm push to get it in and I look down to realise why, the mojo pan isn't designed to work with a reverse shift pattern so the top of the reverse shift kit is hitting the rear top corner of the belly pan on up shifts, I cruise to Lukes gently and will just need to dremel off the corner about 5 mm to make it work.

On the plus side I'm glad I didnt pay full price for it and I did get it on there in the end and it's still my favourite looking belly pan

I also after much huffing and puffing and levering managed to swap over my rear spring for an orange 170-185 rear and have got one of my fork springs swapped out for a 9.5nm and fresh oil, so one more fork to do tonight and then I'm all set for brands, more or less.

Will take some pictures once it's complete

I was unfaithful to mine - I just had a test ride on the new Aprilia V4R Tuono APRC.
Which was nice.

CF headlight "wings" and a "stock" size windshield in CF just arrived from the carbon place I sent stock plastic bit's to , to make moulds,,, FREE CARBON parts in return bike's "dripping" in the stuff now,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,offers on the stock size CF windscreen for sale,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Today I fitted a race gadgets quickshifter,
was a pain in the arse working the wiring out but the rest wasn't too bad once I'd decided where to mount it.

Took some pics along the way so will post up in how to's when I get around to it.

I'm pretty usre it'll be fine mounted where it is but only time will tell.

Hoping to get out on it on sunday and see if I can get use to it/ get it set up properly.



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Very BIG thanks to Steve (No. 47) for helping out with thermoswitch and for good advices.
Thermoswitch changed, overheating problem resolved.

And did some tail transformation, from R to two seater...

machined some plugs to fill the holes after the secondary bf shafts, brass pluggs fitted with silicone

6mm diameter, 11, 14.5, 11.5, and 33.5mm long
"hats" are 8mm diameter and 1.5mm thick




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Ordered up a set of Pro-Bolt engine bolts, in black,,,as well as some fairing bolts in orange,, already have a set in orange but they stiffed me 5 bolts,, will have some extra's now,,, then looked into installing those headlight mask "wings" ,but it seems you have to remove the headlight to get at the friggen screws WTF,,,gonna set it up with some proper bolts to make things easier,,,,,packing up a stock bellypan to ship to the carbon place next,, might as well as I have three,,,,and a touring screen to be made a bit taller and wider,, should look good in CF,, installed an CF upper tripple tree cover I got from a German site for cheap money,,to keep the scratches down,,, and I had a set of CF fork protectors that were damaged slightly,,,so I stuck some WP stickers on em and installed them between the tree's,,,can put them on the lower legs as well ,, with no stickers on the legs permenent,,,,they come right off,,,,looks pretty good ,,,,,,,,,,,,

Went out for a rather spirited ride, one of those that just flows so nice, along the Moray/Banffshire coast!

I also found some awesome twisties by going down the wrong road

Oh yeah, I also saw an X-Bow on the road today. Rather nice in the flesh!

I crashed it

Then picked it up dusted if off and re-entered the battlefield

Installed a euro spec smoked taillight tonight, also a gas cap sticker, that'll make it faster! Since my last post here I've also finished out the R&G slider installation, had the tank replaced under warranty, added a few orange bits, and removed the carbon canister. O2 sensor eliminators are in hand now, waiting on SAS removal kit to do it all at once and complete the desmogging.

plowed it into the side of a bloody Mitsubishi Magna... the lady pulled across my lane without warning and from the right hand lane, across the left lane and into a side street... bike pulled up ok... my leg took the brunt

on a second look, it looks like I have a fairly damaged front wheel... hmmm those nice forged marchesinis might go down a treat if I can get them for the right price

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Very tidy

Might want to have a look at your coolant level

Figured out I need to work on my right handers, I've still got unused rubber on that side . The left chick strips gone though

^^^^^
Kriega is your friend.

That's awesome, John. Sounds like a great trip....pics ASAP, please!!!

im taking either the beemer or the ducati out tomorrow... who needs to use the front brake anyway... thats what twins are for

Wow, always wanted to see Yosemite. I've got no excuse as I live in SoCal. Adding SD trip to Yosemite to Bucket List! Great pictures. Looks like it was awesome there.

That place is stunning, John. Bridalveil is something else, isn't it?

Great pics!

That's a very beautiful part of the world

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This is the new racetek K2 after 99.6kms today... only took it easy as they are still new... very nice ride real positive feel... ill start pushing them next ride out

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New Sliders from FleaBay came in today - already mounted . Other ones were buggered/cracked up.


thnx for comments on photos. Yes Yosemite was exceptional right now. Would like to go back soon ......

johnny

damn winter here.... not seen mine for a month or so now..

starting to go a little ratty, not been out..... unfair..!! cold and raining like I was in the sth pole...crap.!

Took her on an epic ride. Close to 400 miles with about 100 miles of relentlessly tortuous twisty bits. Ahh.

Crotch...where did you ride? Route please!

Just some crappy roads here in California. Camera bike is a cbr1000rr (poor bastard). Best stuff is from about 2:20 to 7:00. Me leading on the black SD. Big boy in blue leathers is a slower orange SD. A few minutes of how I spent 475 miles on Monday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYJBbcFjfaE

Oh yeah, watch the Lotus Elise get sideways at about the 8:30 mark trying to keep up the slower orange SD!

takin a break but right now wiring up the smoke LED tail light lens w/ integrated signals . I'm mounting a license plate mount/bracket due to a tail tidy modification , the bracket has tabs for signals so not only will the bike have nice little Mini side signals but the tail light will signal as well.

I said it before - " I love this bike " have to say it though , if i live through becoming a better rider with this bike i can see where 170 hp SD would be "Titts on a Ritz" after all there's lots of bikes out there with that HP why can't the SD have it ..

johnny

CrotchRockety,

Thanks for that.

Yestersday I Fitted ASV levers and I am about to fit new Q2 tyres. A short break and long clutch, double black. I just might break the Q2s in on that road .


Thanks for sharing!!!

I recently bought a 2nd hand (more probably a 17th hand) sticker plotter and have been experimenting with it.

Installed a new headlight bulb after riding home 25 miles in the dark last night without any lights. It was kind of scary yet exhilarating at the same time. I did have a car to follow for most of the highway stuff. Once in town there are so many lights you can't tell if the lights are on or off anyway.

Drove a 650mile round trip to pick it up. Left at 3.30am this moring and as you can see 21hours later i'm still up.

Got it home and went to town on it.

Removed rear pillion footrest hangers.
Fitted LED stoplamp bulb.
Set up sag
Cleaned whole bike with Gunk to degrease and gave it a quick skim over clean
Removed tank pad, and all other previous owner fitted stickers.
Degreased and cleaned up chain and relubbed
Changed oil and filter and cleaned all gauzes.

Took for a quick 20miles blast to begin to get rid of monster chicken strips and get tyres fully bedded in.

Things to do tomorrow..................
Clean properly
Change brake and clutch fluids
Do valve clearences and fit spark plugs
Sort out problem with forks


On order already.........
Full set of GB racing bungs
Alloy pegs
5.5 x 6 number plate
Paddock stand bobbins
16t sprocket
Evotech tail tidy

Installed a Suter slipper clutch, then drank a beer or seven.

Nothin....sweet FA as they say.

I put on two new sticky tyres yesterday, checked brake pads, cleaned and lubed chain, torqued all caliper and axle nuts up with love, washed polished and caressed my baby with the excitement looming of my first ride in three weeks today.

Wake up early this morning...and fooking raining!

Now drinking rum and beer!

Spent most of the day on the SD.

Did valve clearances.
Replaced the plugs. Had to file down a plug socket by hand to make it fit. Hard graft I can tell ya
Gave it a good clean.
Adjusted throttle cables free play and set up levers
Got out and rode it for a bit. Had me giggling like a Japanese schoolgirl. It's been wet here all day and roads are super greasy. Any wheelie attempts had the rear tyre spinning up instantly and lots of pops and bangs from exhaust. Why oh why oh why did I not buy this bike 6 years ago. Only had it 24hrs and ridden 20miles and loving it already.

Going away for a few days but when I get back there should be a big pile of parts to fit. Can't wait.

Just Bought Superduke 'R' rear suspension unit......just waiting for it to arrive

did you get the one off the bay ?? good price if u did, i was cooking a bbq and missed it

SD is currently in with Kev @ Projex for fitting the newly reprofiled cams from Tornado. Slight glitch: that cams have had so much metal taken off the back of the cam that KTM don't do a shim big enough by about 1mm. Waiting to hear from Germany as to what they recommend.
It seems that Tornado are building KTM SD motors for European long track grass track racing and are getting some scary hp figures out of them. Given that we know that my SD has got standard heads when we thought they'd bee flowed and skimmed I'm planning to send my heads off to them this winter and have the whole lot matched up to their hi-comp pistons. By all accounts we should see more power than an RC8 with a free flow exhaust system on it.

aannnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddddd just brought Jody's spare quickshifter

Installed Motohooligan airbox, motohooligan flys, and removed SAS. Very straightforward 3.5 hour job.
Havnt test ridden yet cos its 5am but will do in a few hours. cant wait!!

put my new clear LED taillight on... man... those nuts are a pain in the arse...

Leo Vince cans + akra map. I can't believe the difference this made

Well Try as i FOOKIN may - today i tried to get that last little bit o Chicken FAT off my tyre ! Gawlll Dang it !!!



think it's actually just barely touching the edge and that is actually a little valley where the Chicken SHIT's not scrubbin off .... ROFL , i'm tellin ya it's tough enough gettin to that point. The other day when i resolved to get this far with it the rear end started slippin on that slippery CHICKEN GREASE ... Cotton pants - Least i bought some good boots , Been borrowing a pair of leather pants a friend gave me ( Dianese ) and i'm becoming a convert - protective clothing doesn't necessarily mean " i'm plannin on fallin " but it does mean wearing the stuff makes me feel more protected and that equates to a bit more confidence and i push the envelope a bit more. I suspect someday i'll actually break down and get a full helmet .... oh anyway

johnny

Ohhh PS. all this time i been thinkin i don't know how to spell tyre and make the mistake of typing tyre with a "Y" but i see IT'S YOU GUYS !!! YOU'RE SPELL CHECKIN ME"

Knock that Sheiit off will ya (:

Tre is spelt with a Y. We should know, we invented the language

I placed an order for a rear spring through lindeman suspension.. The spring is dark red so we will see what it looks like with a black SD...

I managed to scrub my tyres in on one side by lowsiding does that count?

I put some Rosso Corsas on yesterday and struggled to scrub them in on the way home given it was raining. Maybe tomorrow will let me scrub them in some more and I'll fit that Outerwares pre-filter too if I get the time!

Fitted Evotech tail tidy.
Started to clean up exhaust until i lost interest.
Fitted 16t front sprocket.
Changed brake fluid and blead out brakes.
Reset suspention settings to harden it up a bit
Did some wheelie practice.




It's cleaned up pretty well. Just waiting on GB Racing crash bungs to arrive. Servicing front forks tommorow.







Starting to get the hang of the bike now. Wheelies still need some work. Struggling to keep throttle smooth enough once it's up. End up being too choppy, or for some reason i keep falling to the left and have to put it back down . 1st gear throttles ups are ok, just too slow. 2nd gear cutch ups are hit or miss, thin i'm starting too high in te rev range and not giving the clutch a good enough ping Had a few from <40mph with a big handfull and clutch ping and they felt spot on, just a little choppy. All my wheelie past has been on I4's so the twin is taking a bit of learing.

Ok I have 24,000 on the duke R, it's an 09 ark's cans, fraim sliders at bottom of gas tank and wheels, Corbin seat, moto H air box, remove all of the sas 4 block off plates, powercomander , custom eng map,asv clutch and brake leavers, up on gears and still working on it.

^^^ 10 posts in 3 years. Go you! Glad the silent members are still loving it.

Inspection sticker and a quick 100 miles on her,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TBH I had thought the Yoshi's with no baffles would be a little louder,,,,,,,,nice none the less,,,,,,,,no popping with the Akra map installed,,,,,and the sweet smell of Cam-2,,,fresh tank in the morning,,,,,,suspension better w/sport setting's,,,,gel seat much better than the stocker,,IMO,,,,no leak's from the SSR keyless fuel cap,,,all in all

Just got mine prepared and ready for sunny cadwell on Monday cant wait first track day without the R6 should be fun over the mountain.

Been doing track days for years but this will be the first for the big SD and its brand new!!!!


Any tips on cadwell anyone and don't just say stay on i have been watching You Tube not sure that's helped crash crash crash....

Lets hope not

Aaron

Those Q's are hard to get to the edge. I had no problem with the BT016 or 2ct's but never got the Q2's there riding at the same pace. I like the idea that I have more tyre if I need it though, instead of being right at the edge. I just fitted new Q2's on the SDR but didn't get to ride on Saturday because the battery was dead, again. I just put a brand new battery in 2 months ago so hopefully I can get it replaced for free but I need to figure out what's draining the battery. Hopefully it's just a bad rectifier and it will be covered under warranty, if the warranty is still good. Need to check the purchase date.

I hit a Pheasant! SPUR-LAT!

Gotta clean off the blood now though

Would have gone back to take a photo of the kill, but I think I saw it ping of into an overgrown ditch so didn't fancy rumaging around.

Last week I fitted Carbon Heel Guards...really well made and solid one of my original heel guards snapped ...just the excuse I needed
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Fitted Superduke 'R' Shock to my SD....I was going to put 160 spring on...but I had a ride on a members 07 'R' last weekend and it was nowhere near as hard as I thought it was going to be ...so I will see how it goes

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Today i got my oberon slave in titanium colour that i have waited for since second of may.... out of order and customs delay but finally it was here
cjmoto had a really nice price.. 106$ incl mounting plate and shipping

Ran out of fuel! Now I know what its like.

Also topped up the oil as she had burned thru a fair bit along with the fuel!

More like what haven't I done.

Went to fit a steering damper that I got off Ebay. The seller sent through the wrong tank bolt (guessing his standard one) with it not even getting flush with the tank.

Whilst faffing about with refitting the tank bolt, I noticed I've got a pretty bad case of the mumps on the tank, more on one side than the other.

Gonna send a message to the Ebayer ref the bolt and one to my local(ish) dealer about the tank.

Not a happy bunny!!

It's an 06 but with an 07 tank.

Just found out the place I thought were my local dealer now only sell Huskys! My nearest is now over 3 hrs away. I wonder if they would give an RC8R as a courtisy bike to get back in time for work

my new cans are on iv put my motobox on removed the sas removed the 2nd flies and shafts and she goes like stink







AND PRE OPP

^^^ how come you changed your cans from the others?

Plus I think they may be upside down. Or at least thats how it looks to me.

just fancyed a change and yes i was trying to mount them up the other way but the resound would b upsidown they r off a ducati so r supposed to be sideways with the longest part together but i think they follow the contours of the bike

Installed the second new battery in 3 months along with a battery tender which it shouldn't need since I ride it every week, but I had it so I put it on and the battery keeps ending up dead. Still need to check if the battery is being drained. Checked the charging system with a tool I got from local auto parts store and that seems to be working fine.

Looked at it - took this photo of the wheel tattoo to post.



johnny

Thought I'd have aonther look at my damper.

After comparing with a few pics on the net, I've concluded that it isn't a top mount one but one the goes under the headstock , which is no use to me as I've got an '06 bike so it's going up for sale.

Slapped on a new t i r e (fookers) & rode her to work.

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like your cans (and licence plate)

I'm goin ridin right FOOKIN now !!! That's what i'm doin - up to Alices Restaurant , Repeat process tomorrow ( SUnday ) as well - Oh yea - Got Monday off too (-: FOOK WORK !!!!

johnny

Finished overhauling my water pump after it dumped all the coolant into the oil, sent the wife and kids away so had free use of the oven to put the new bearings in !!!!
The old ones were pretty f****d.

Followed the guide from advrider forum, really good.

Then did 3 oil changes to make sure all the water was flushed out of the engine

The first pic is the old water pump shaft and bearings



Fitted my new GPS lap timer from starlane



Put some connectors on my battery, charged and balanced it then put it back in the bike







Should be ready for the track day on Friday now

I filled my Suburban Machinery handle bars with BBs last night. Trying to dampen the vibration. I am not sure how effective it was as I could not ride today. I'll fill you in when I have some actual riding time on the new set up.

New bar end mirrors... dont know if I like them yet

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I've just had a look at the Suburban Machinery website: they don't seem to list a KTM SD bar. What did you fit and why?

Refitted standard cams.
New Oberon clutch slave cylinder.
Oil breather catch tank fitted - very high tec: its a beer can.
New pads.
On track on the International circuit at Silverstone tomorrow for a shake down as this will be my last chance to ride it before the crash fest.

Nice 1, just ordered a set....not sure what the law is in the uk but i think they will pull my mates first as they run with no mirrors or indicators at all

Took the clocks off to dry them out and see if they work again!

I have updated my signature!
A couple of evenings in the garage made me get rid of the secondaries and making a little crank breather mod.

I think i'm goin for a spin today on the SD. Out to Alices Restaurant in woodside .

Have not installed the reverse shifter yet but it's a commin - will give report on my impression once i do.

when i get back from Alices will probably install the front Rim Tattoo.

johnny

Got it a playmate!

Missed it.........







my bikes are 6,000 miles away..... it hurts

fitted the motohooligan airbox and sas blanking plates and what a fine bit of kit it is , the quality is second to none !!,hats odd to Aaron cheers mate , first off what an induction roar second boy oh boy that front front sas plate is a bast**rd to remove and fit !! when i say bast**rd i mean a motha fuka born in hell !! anyway very pleased with the result !!

the recent thread about HM quickshifters told us the issue was with SDR electronics. BASH has a standard SD, so it's not gonna help you i'm afraid...

Oh dam ok then back to that HM thread

Looks nice Bash!! Everyone around here calls mine that because it makes you stupid as soon as you get on it.

So what rear sets are you running?

Nice one BASH, love it, looks good

Confirmed. For the R 2008 or newer, you want the HM Quickshifter Plus Ducati, NOT KTM. The KTM will not fit!

Fitted the .25 throttle cam. Holy shit that is awesome!!! I thought the .50 was great but it is next level. Even managed to dodge the crazy rain on the way back from Millar's studio.

Throttle response on my bike is spot on though. Before I did all the mods and had it dyno'd it was a bit jerky but now it is very smooth. Being in London I would never have put the super fast action on if it wasn't smooth down the bottom end.

Past few days.....................

Got some good amature pics done by a mate. Pretty happy with them.




Redone the forks for the second time. Not been happy with the lack of rebound damping on the front even with things up near the max. Upped it to 10wt oil at 420ml. Much much better. Had a few hard blasts down my local test road . Bike feels natural now, like its just doing what i want it to do without me having to wait for it, or tip it in a bit gingerly feeling it out to see what it's gonna do.





Stripped and cleaned and lubbed up front pads and pistons.

Changed clutch fluid.

That'll do for now.

After having to jump start the SD twice in the last month due to the cold weather, I have ordered a new battery online tonight. The original is four year old so makes sense.
Local cost was from $150 to $285.... On line $95 delivered. That's for 12 volt 285 cca battery !

Also after fitting my el cheapo cnc alloy levers from china, the brake pushrod is too short to allow proper adjustment.
I got a 6mm stainless bolt, cut it, profiled the shaft to a round end pushrod, measured and cut it to suit and replace the original, .......perfect fit all fixed.... Cost $2 .

A few more bit's of CF from 2RT arrived today,,,,,,,,,,installed,,,,,,,,,,sweeter,,,,,,,,,,, new stands from Pit Bull as well,,,,sweetest,,, now it's on to the LSL flats,,,gotta get these fookin grips off

Squirt WD40 down....you can use this to put them on....leave to dry out and it sticks ....like....a sticky thing

besides riding it, I did test mounting the goPro camera on the left hand frame last week...

Nice!
Could you please post a picture of how the GoPro is mounted to the frame?

Rode it to work this morning. Just before getting on the freeway, I punched a hole in my brand-new(less than 200 miles) BT003 rear tyre.

Fook.

new custom tail tidy with LED number plate bolt/lights... really cleans the back of the bike up

So i watched this video last nite and while the bike crashed i kept saying to myself , that's kinda how my SD feels in the turns , as though not enough trail. http://www.gotagteam.com/KTM_Days/Video ... crash.html

I've only had my SD 6 months - about a month and a half while i was experimenting with the front end i actually dropped the triple clamps lower on the tubes so at least an eight of an inch of tube was above the triple clamp.

This morning went out to shop and decided to raise the triple back upward and now have about 1/8th inch of tube inside the triple.
http://www.gotagteam.com/KTM_Days/Video ... iples.html

As soon as i got on bike i could tell the contact patch of the bike had moved forward. Took bike out for ride and felt alot better to me. So Put about 120 miles on bike today and wow !! love it. Front end does not feel like it's turning back on itself anymore.

that's what i did

Johnny
now need to get rid of that annoying popping from the graphite seal in the exhaust blown out.

Installed a Scotts damper I pillaged from my CBR. Pretty easy job, hardest part was the tank, but even that's getting easy now that I have a system.

Took it for its first ride with the 16-40 gearing, it was very nice!
Also took some photos:

Gona put rear pegs on , just lined up taking some French chick Alexia to Laguna Seca for the Moto GP races this sunday - YES !!!

Two hour ride from where i live - should be nice ! Haven't been to Laguna Seca for ages.

johnny

Installed a Motohooligan Motobox with Motohooligan flies and Millar's SAS plates.
By the time I could go for a test ride the sky had turned black and rain was gushing down