"I had to ride my new Ducati Multistrada 5mph below the yellow warning signs. It was the most jarring motorcycle experience I've had in 40 years. I thought I had a brain tumor. It's like forgetting how to walk. It's like somebody turning off the circuit telling you right from left. When I went back on the KLR proved the Ducati was an anomaly. It's like gravity no longer applies. It's the freakiest thing to happen to me in 40 years of riding motorcycles. Like the twilight zone. You have no clue what's gonna happen next."
-Dave Despain from Speed TV (1st ride on a V-twin Ducati on Pirelli tires), SidestandUp Radio, Epp 132 Oct 2009
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-64458/TS-280195.mp3
http://sidestandup.com
"Tires with a sharp triangular profile tend to steer more quickly than do those with a rounder profile."
-Sportbike Performance Handbook
"Triumph Daytona 600 with Pirelli Diablo Corsa tyres: The bike Paul Young championed on the track for its front end, the Triumph, is the one to find fault with on the road. At slow speed, mini-roundabouts or turning right from a standstill, the Triumph falls a little too quickly into the turn. Sometimes you almost have to 'counter-countersteer' to stop yourself turning too tight as the weight of the front wheel pulls the bars round and creates too much lean angle. OK, it really isn't a major fault but a nervous rider on a brand spanking new bike wont enjoy it and its certainly something you don't find on the bikes with 60 or 65 section tires."
-Superbike, May 2004
2004 Triumph Daytona 600 Road Test: "We did notice the Daytona's tendency to fall into the corner once past the halfway point in its lean angle, though we would attribute that trait to the tires. Our test unit came equipped with standard Pirelli Diablos, while the OEM fitment is a special "T" model of the Diablo. We weren't able to get the Diablo T tires in time for the test, so we can't positively blame the handling idiosyncrasy on the bike's rubber, but when we slapped on a set of Michelin Pilot Race H2 street/track radials for racetrack testing, the fall-in tendency disappeared."
-Sportrider
Question: "Everyone says that riding for Ducati is completely different to riding for any other team. Is that right?"
Nicky Hayden: "I've only ever ridden Hondas in GPs so it's not like I could tell you from having ridden them all. Sure, it feels a lot different to the Honda, in how you go about the set-up, but also the tyres are so different. It's hard for me to know what's the tyres and what's the motorbike. This morning was quite frustrating because I really felt like I could make some progress this afternoon and be competitive."
"With most of the field running Ducati motorcycles, the championship received the derogatory title 'the Ducati Cup'. The most significant was that from 2004 the teams have had to run on Pirelli control or 'spec' tyres. The decision to award the control tyre to Pirelli was controversial. The Pirelli tyres were considered to be below the standard of Dunlop and Michelin that most of the teams had been using. Dunlop looked to take legal action against the decision."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superbike_World_Championship
Tire and bike setup for the Dragon with round vs triangular tires
http://www.easttnriders.com/forum/showthread.php?t=932
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Dave Despain, it's not you or a brain tumor, it's the triangular tread profile of the front Pirelli Diablo. Switch to a front tire with a round profile, like Dunlop, and your bike will steer with normal countersteering, instead of counter-countersteering. Pirelli Diablos are track only for advanced racers, and even they have trouble, ask Nikky Hayden. Your KLR did not have a triangular Pirelli Diablo front tire so it steers normally.
operationnorthwoodz 1 year ago