Sports: Re: [DucatiST] The New Ducati Engine!

Nick, go back to the information page and search through it. There are a lot of tech pages in there. The engine is rotated a bit back for more clearance to the front wheel but not as much as I figured it would be from earlier information I had read...6 dgrees if I remember correctly.

I agree with you too in that the bike is getting too complicated and tech oriented. You'll shudder every time it rains or you give it a bath. The newer bikes have too many problems as it is...now this one.

Love the HP readings but as you go to higher over square numbers, the HP is shifted further up the RPM range. The power curves were nicely linear though, not curvilinear. The basic design of a 90 degree V twin will give better torque than other designs but the over square figures will null that out to a point.

On my olde racing Norman White Norton Commando, we used a drag race cam with the idea that a heavy flywheeled long stroke vertical twin had enough torque in basic design but needed more HP. The bike did well enough in BOTT that Tony Rutter approached Norm about racing it in the '84 IOM pre-72 production class until that class was eliminated...bummer!

Cheers...Hopper

--- On Wed, 10/12/11, Nick Woods <nickw@cooptel.net> wrote:

From: Nick Woods <nickw@cooptel.net>
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] The New Ducati Engine!
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 1:46 AM

--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, Jan Wysocki <st@...> wrote:
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> I'm not entirely sure it's _my_ future.
>
> Ok, it's a desmo L-twin

Yes, still a 90-degree motor, but did anyone else notice that the engine on the stand seemed to be rotated backwards to give a more-conventional vee configuration? I couldn't be sure of the angle of the datum line provided by the script on the clutch case, 'cos there were just too many atmospheric soft-focus close-ups....

It's obvious that the only thrust of Ducati is top-end bhp, with masses of high-tech gizmos to make the thing rideable at more modest speeds, but I guess that's what sells bikes these days. Probably it was always that way, and only the technology has changed.

NickW, UK