Thanks Clive I'll have to do the axle alignment thing and make sure settings are equal, if anything is off I'll blame it on PO.
I wish I had an independent Ducati specialist handy here in the wilds of central NJ (just dealers, AFAIK). I was thinking to go to local machinists, but I first wanted to bust Galfer's horns a bit as they had advertised the disks for the ST3s, which from my POV should mean that there's holes on one disk for ABS wheel. Just sayin'. I look forward to getting that project completed.
Reed
Reed
Have you measured the front suspension settings – are both legs set up the same?
Only maintenance to date on my forks was new seals at about 40,000 miles – bushes, springs etc are totally original and it handles brilliantly in all conditions and I continually push it hard into corners in Wales and Europe and I have done a couple of track days on it.
I replaced the original Brembo discs with Grimeca discs at about 55,000 miles prior to going to World Ducati week in June this year – bolted the ABS rotor onto the Grimeca disc – local independent Ducati specialist made up a jig to drill and tap the disc webbing in the correct places – really improved the brakes.
I have experienced uneven wear on front tyres and this may have been down to worn wheel bearings but I wouldn’t have thought your ST has done enough miles to require new front wheel bearings unless the previous owner used a power washer on it and washed all the grease out of the front wheel bearings.
Clive
From: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com [mailto:st2_owners@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Reed Kyrk
Sent: 29 August 2012 23:53
To: st2_owners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DucatiST] 2007 ST3 ABS fork
Okay then I bet that's what I've got too.
Congrats on the miles wearing off the coating! I just read something about how that well-used look on bicycles has its own brand of beauty and is something special - unless of course it means expensive maintenance is coming.
The coating is there to help with stiction, yet I seem to get a hesitation then dive on the mildest application of front brakes? I haven't had the forks on this one apart yet to check w/o springs and measure parallel-ness (?) of fork legs. Shimming fork brace fussing with triple-tree did wonders for my two older BMWs, IIRC.
Best regards
Reed
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