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

that sounds like a Fiat problem Ian. The oil pan catches it from small boulders and what not.

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, 7:48 AM

> I've had that 'clang' a few times on both the ST and the Mostro, when
> going over very short 'sleeping policemen*' on private roads. I used
> to assume it was the centre stand flicking down, but now I know it's the
> exhaust pipe that runs under the engine. Lie down and you'll
> see the nice
> flat you've made on the bottom:-)
>
> *a hump in the road to make riders aggressive, aka speed calming.

Makes sense. I'll have a look....

Probably less damaging than on the old Triumph where the thing that hit was the oil filter!

IanE