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ROAD TEST the Best Superbi MCN Exclusively Tests Neil Hodgson’S WSB Title-Winning Factory 999 Back-To-Back with the Firm’S Ultimate Road Bike – the 999R

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ROAD TEST the Best Superbi MCN Exclusively Tests Neil Hodgson’S WSB Title-Winning Factory 999 Back-To-Back with the Firm’S Ultimate Road Bike – the 999R 34 MOTOR CYCLE NEWS SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 ROAD TEST The best superbi MCN exclusively tests Neil Hodgson’s WSB title-winning factory 999 back-to-back with the firm’s ultimate road bike – the 999R DUCATI 999R COST: £19,250 RACE BIKE TOP SPEED: 165.7mph Brembo race-spec front brake master WEIGHT: 193kg cylinder with remote cable adjustment POWER: 130bhp @ 10,100rpm (mounted on left clip-on) for finger span. TORQUE: 73.5ftlb @ 7900rpm ROAD BIKE Brembo brake master cylinder (moulded round the clip-on), adjustable for finger span. RACE BIKE Carbon-fibre race fairing is supremely aerodynamic following extensive wind tunnel testing with British F1 car aerodynamics guru Alan Jenkins. ROAD BIKE Road fairing is carbon-fibre but with wider belly pan and lower standard screen. RACE BIKE Marchesini 3.5/3.75in x 16.5in magnesium front wheel. Marchesini 5.75/6.00/6.25in x 17in magnesium rear wheel. ROAD BIKE Marchesini 3.5in x 17in forged aluminium front wheel. Marchesini 5.5in x 17in forged aluminium rear wheel. RACE BIKE Ohlins 42mm nitrogen-charged race forks, adjustable for pre-load, rebound and high and low speed compression damping. ROAD BIKE Ohlins 43mm road/track forks adjustable for pre-load, rebound and compression damping. RACE BIKE RACE BIKE Track-use-only Michelin Pilot slicks/wets, Brembo 2 x 290/305mm fully-floating ranging from super sticky to almost super vented front discs. glue-like. ROAD BIKE ROAD BIKE Brembo 2 x 320mm semi-floating Sticky Michelin Pilot Race tyres. front discs. T’S not even 24 hours since Neil But right now the crowds are gone and calipers, which remain bolted in position. Hodgson won the 2003 World Hodgson’s all-conquering Ducati is being If this was the 999R – the road bike on Superbike championship, but meticulously prepared for its world which the F03 is based – it would take already his history-making Ducati exclusive ride by MCN. We’re going to 20 minutes to unbolt the calipers, is being fettled for more action at ride it back-to-back with the factory’s change the tyre and fix everything back Holland’s legendary Assen circuit. flagship road bike – the 999R – to find in place. So far it has taken the IMCN’s Trevor Franklin is about to get out how the ultimate Ducati road bike technicians three minutes on the race the chance to ride the factory 999 F03 measures up to its ultimate racer. bike. Isn’t it about time quick-release around the track less than a day after As the rain hammers down, two Fila wheels appeared on road bikes? 30,000 fans cheered Hodgson to glory in Ducati team technicians slot the Firing up the 999R is a simple matter Holland. Franklin had been shadowing Marchesini front wheel– shod with of turning the left clip-on mounted the champion throughout his title- heavily grooved Michelin wets – between quick-idle lever (used to be called a winning weekend. He stood with him on the Ohlins fork legs. The Brembo vented choke lever on carburated bikes) to on, EVEN in the rain – albeit shod with the grid before the races (see page 37). discs are generously offset from the switching the ignition to on, and full race wet tyres – Hodgson’s 999 is And you can read his interview with wheel’s hub so the rim is allowed to pass thumbing the starter button. The bike’s miles apart from the 999R road bike Hodgson on page 38. between the Brembo radially-mounted Magneti Marelli engine management SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 MOTOR CYCLE NEWS 35 bike on the planet BY TREVOR FRANKLIN PICTURES PETER FOX FILA 999 F03 COST: £100,000 TOP SPEED:189.4mph WEIGHT: 163kg (end of race weight) POWER: 186bhp @ 12,500rpm TORQUE: 85ftlb (est) RACE BIKE Big-bore 64mm (external diameter), 102dB titanium race exhaust, no catalyser. ROAD BIKE Road legal 88dB stainless steel exhaust with catalysers. RACE BIKE Carbon-fibre fuel tank, 23.9 litre (5.25 gallon) capacity. ROAD BIKE Steel tank, 15.5 litre (3.41 gallon) capacity. RACE BIKE Ohlins TT44 rear shock, adjustable for ride height, pre-load, rebound and high and low speed compression damping. ROAD BIKE Ohlins rear shock, adjustable for ride height, pre-load, rebound and compression damping. RACE BIKE RACE BIKE Brembo Gold race series radially-mounted, Press-formed aluminium, deep-walled four-piston front brake calipers with two double-sided swingarm with quick release heavily sintered race pads per caliper. RACE BIKE wheel system. Swingarm pivot point Dry multi-plate slipper clutch. adjustable for height. ROAD BIKE Brembo radially-mounted calipers with four ROAD BIKE ROAD BIKE sintered pads per caliper. Dry multi-plate clutch. Cast aluminium double-sided swingarm. system automatically keeps the starter The race bike’s engine has to blipped to seems. Its Michelin Pilot Race tyres are movement-activated quick-shifter that archer’s bowstring. It’s certainly grunty motor turning until the engine catches ensure all moving parts get up to virtually slick and that means there’s no momentarily kills the sparks to the enough between 4000 and 6000rpm to and fires up. Simple. working temperature quickly without grip and no way the bike can be given its sparkplugs. An on/off button on the dash spin the rear tyre in the first two gears Starting the race bike is not simple. A undue stress. The 999R’s temperature head. But the race bike is equipped with offers the option. along the short, sodden straights that remote starter in the shape of a petrol gauge will gradually creep up to 78°C. In tyres to allow a harder ride. The gearshift pattern is reversed on the link Assen’s fast curves and twists. It’s a engine driving a wheel is needed. It is ideal conditions the race bike will run With a push from behind to preserve race bike. It’s easier to toe down for an recipe for disaster if the throttle is pushed against the bike’s rear tyre, revved close to 90°C. But the rain-filled the dry slipper clutch against the tall first upper gear when leant over – when abused. But at the same time it’s also fun flat out and when the 999’s wheel is atmosphere outside is also bloody cold, gear ratio, the race bike burbles along Hodgson and Co are at full tilt there’s no because the engine is very responsive to spinning fast enough the clutch is dropped. so the massive water radiator has to be pit-lane at its 4000rpm tickover. The room to get a boot under the lever. throttle input, and power output can be It’s a labour-saving version of bump- partially blocked-off with a liberal 999R needs no assistance – just The £19,250 cost of the 999R when it finely balanced. starting. Just as well, too, because bump- application of duct-tape. A cold running releasing the clutch lever and dialling in was new and available (only 800 have Ducati claims the race bike’s motor starting a V-twin with compression as high engine runs the risk of a cold seizure if some revs does it. been made) gets you the most powerful V- makes 186bhp – 186 horses from an as the F03 is bloody near impossible. motor internals like valve and piston-to- Second gear comes by dipping the twin road bike Ducati has ever produced. engine that just wants to rev and rev. As the race bike’s titanium Termignoni bore clearances aren’t achieved. clutch lever and toeing the 999R’s gear Not surprisingly it is no slouch when its Open the throttle an eighth at 5000rpm race can barks into life, the 999R’s ‘doff- Riding the 999R around an unknown lever upwards. It’s the same for the race throttle is worked hard and 130bhp and the rear Michelin wet tyre digs into doff-doff’ tickover note is drowned out. track in the wet isn’t as daunting as it bike, as I’ve chosen not to use the lever causes the chain to tighten like an Assen’s grip-laden surface to kick the CONTINUES OVER 36 MOTOR CYCLE NEWS SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 ROAD TEST ON Assen’s straights the fettled factory 999 makes the ‘standard’ 999R’s power delivery feel limp as a week-old lettuce The LCD tacho display zips across the dash so quickly ‘ it’s easy to miss the red gearshift indicator flashing and hitting the rev limiter From previous page ’ purpose – to win a world championship. shock-like vibrations make their way of throttle to prevent the rear wheel engine revs match rear wheel speed. No bike forward. I deliberately open the The LCD tacho display zips across the through the clip-ons and into my hands. locking up but it does slow the bike. wheel lock up, and no unsettled chassis throttle in 1000rpm increments until the dash so quickly it’s easy to miss the red The more revs the faster the small The race bike’s close ratio gearbox when the bike barrels into a turn. rev limiter cuts in at 12,600rpm, some gearshift indicator flashing on and stabbing sensations. The 999R’s power means top gear is snuck home in a short Through the infamous last chicane 2100rpm more than the road bike. And hitting the rev limiter. The lightened delivery seems dull, lifeless, and distance. With the wet racing tyres it’s leading on to Assen’s start/finish at every point the bike takes off like a components like crankshaft and conrods insignificant – but only by comparison.
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