Sports: RE: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion

Well I've got 80 lbs on you and my wife may be a little heavier than yours, I don't dare say! :-)

With luggage we probably had 450 lbs on the bike. I never worked out exactly what was bottoming, it was a definite metallic "clang" like something hitting the exhaust but I can't see that anything could. Having the panniers, the exhausts are in the lower position.

-----Original Message-----
From: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Robert McNabb
Sent: 12 April 2011 11:39
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion

170 and my wife is 140, I'm guessing on my wife since she won't tell me. ;)

Robert McNabb
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
ST4 1999 RED

--- On Tue, 4/12/11, Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk> wrote:

From: Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk>
Subject: RE: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 4:26 AM

What do you weigh, Robert?

-----Original Message-----
From: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Robert McNabb
Sent: 11 April 2011 23:52
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion

I've never bottomed mine out with the stock spring. I have even ridden it with pillion and left the setting as it is when I ride solo without bottoming it. Now y'all are confusing me.

Robert McNabb
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
ST4 1999 RED

--- On Sun, 4/10/11, Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk> wrote:

From: Ian Ellison <ian@ianellison.org.uk>
Subject: [DucatiST] My weekend with a pillion
To: "St2_Owners" <st2_owners@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 2:42 PM

Well, I'm back.

I picked Kathy up from work at 4 on Friday. I randomly put 4 extra turns on
the rear preload before setting off 2 up, but within a few yards I went over
a speed bump and there was a loud clang as something bottomed out. I stopped
and wound it up to the max, but didn't touch the damping. This did the job,
with it only bottoming out once afterwards when I dropped into a sunken
manhole cover.

IanE