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Bing-Bong

Joined May 2011
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Hello peeps, New here.

Had my 2001 Mille R delivered saturday and spent the weekend riding it. It has the hook airbox, Micron exhaust (loud), chip, etc etc. What a bike.

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It's done 18500 miles, and is as clean as it looks. Having a few issues with suspension settings but I am slowly getting there.

The only thing that I don't like is the tyres, but they can wait as they have loads of meat left on them. I love the induction sound when I open her up. My three year old son calls it the flying banana.
 
welcome dude. you defo got the best colour. ;)

As for suspension, just set it back to standard which you can find setting for in the book. Standard setup is a good start for road use. :)
 
dribble said:
welcome dude. you defo got the best colour. ;)

As for suspension, just set it back to standard which you can find setting for in the book. Standard setup is a good start for road use. :)
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Thanks, but then you might be biased.

I'm working through it, the steering damper was wound up to nearly fully stiff and the front preload was maxed out as well. It was a pig to turn. Just got to work on the shock and fork settings now.
 
they like it...hard matey, but keep your tyre pressures to something like 33F and 36R
YMMV,
but I found that the best for fast road
ck
 
Yo CK, why less in the front? should be the other way round, 36F 33R, the rear will heat up more upping the PSI... unless your using Nitrogen? :)

OH crap, Ive might have started a tyre pressure argument again!!!
 
I've always had lower pressure in the front than the rear in all my bikes,
 
I kinda do too, but 36/36. when at running temp the rear is higher! Im going to shut up now, i know ****-all about it really. ;)
 
I'm with Pat - front should always be lower than rear - look on ANY tyre manufacturers website & they'll recommend the same (usually 36F & 42R for most sportsbikes). I'm running 33F 36R in my '05 R, based on advice from this site (cos the Mille handling's rubbish compared to my blade & I'm due to see Griff for a decent setup) - everything else I can remember has been run at 36/42, from my NC21 to my BlackBird...
 
Sounds like a bra size thread. Finished reseting the sussie settings tonight. Rear rebound fourteen instead of twenty, no wonder I was getting fired out of the seat. So add that to maxed out preload on the front forks and a steering damper on it's stiffest setting nearly it'll be nice to see what they handle like on the standard settings. Oh by the way, I am running Diablo corsa 111 at 33/36, but am thinking that 30/33 would be better. But then I int tried it yet.
Some one on here must know this bike.
 
36.front -38.rear PSI cold is a general base setting for most tyres ... pressures & tyre brands are as personal as is the model you ride , some tryes have stronger sideways which allows you to run less pressure while others don't so you have to run higher pressures to stop wall flex while cornering hard .. Try some of the pressures suggested & see what works for you with feed back & confidence from your bikes handling . Good point to start at first tho is getting your suspension set correctly to your weight & needs this will help with sorting tyre pressures as well
 
33 front and back and drop too 30 front and back for track, to hard a psi and the trye doesn't flatten and everyone has seen the slow mo's on motogp and heard the explanation about the tyre contact patch widening under compression so dont have them to hard particulary the rear or you will be more prone to a tank slapper which isn't fun just got my bike back from the garage yesterday after fitting race scrubs and the guy put the psi in at 40 !!!balloon went round a bend put the juice on and round she came managed to stay on just ,might of also had something to do with the amount of grit still on the roads...lol suppose it all comes down to how you ride and what you want out of it oh and my advice earlier has come from club racers and on track alway feels better than road setting
 
I think you're all gay, i ride it whatever psi, did 10 mile on a flat rear the other day. Got it heated right up... ah well new set this weekend. :)
 
I'm currently running my '05 R at 33/36, but the handling doesn't inspire confidence at all. It's on Battlax BT20/21's with lots of tread left & is going in on Thursday for Griff to work his magic with the suspension, so I'm desperately hoping that sorts it. The only way I can describe how it feels currently is 'squirmy'. I took my '05 blade round Donnington a while back & due to a duff tyre gauge, I let far too much pressure out of the tyres (at the end of the trackday, they'd got 22 in the front & 25 in the rear). The bike handled like a pig all day - didn't want to tip in easily & wriggled all over the place when I got on the gas - this is how the Mille feels, just not quite as bad. Anyone got any thoughts of anything else to try?
 
3 rings showing, as per the advice on here. I have just pulled 2 bits of rubber out from the bottom of the rear shock - they were just rattling around between the piston & the spring - I'm guessing it used to be the bump stop...could it be the cause of the problem & is it a major problem not having one (doesn't seem to handle any different without it...)?
 
The service books reckon 4 rings for fast road and 5 for track or race im the same as yourself 3 rings and if it wasn't for the v front michelin it would be a mare but there are so many things it can be ive probably got ma damper turned up to much lol
 
K20FTY said:
3 rings showing, as per the advice on here. I have just pulled 2 bits of rubber out from the bottom of the rear shock - they were just rattling around between the piston & the spring - I'm guessing it used to be the bump stop...could it be the cause of the problem & is it a major problem not having one (doesn't seem to handle any different without it...)?
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It won't feel any different at all until you hit a bump hard enough to bottom out the damper. The bump stop is there to progressively (and rapidly) increase the spring rate as the suspension nears the end of it's travel. With out a bump stop, the end of the damper will just get smashed into the damper body, giving you instant solid suspension and a potentially damaged damper.
 
dribble said:
Yo CK, why less in the front? should be the other way round, 36F 33R, the rear will heat up more upping the PSI... unless your using Nitrogen? :)
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Tyre pressures still increase with temperature when using nitrogen, nothing magical about nitrogen that it doesn't obey the standard gas laws.
 

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