Close-Up: John Hopkins' Moto Rapido Panigale R 

That's the beauty of a small, privately-run team. There's so much passion and desire to succeed with a fraction of the budget of the big teams. Iain is a top bloke who could have talked for days!

Iain Hopcroft is a genuinely nice guy and is great at explaining the bike and how it all works! Ran Hospitality for them a few years ago at Brands Hatch so got lots of garage tour and good look round the team as well as drinking with Iain and Wilf in the hotel after!

For being a self acclaimed mind reader, its a shame you elected not to mention the 'guy' has a name. Ian is over the top brilliant..and he wouldn't be giving this tour if he was opposed as your crystal ball seems to declare

It won't be shown on BT and ITV as a majority of viewers are those uneducated muppets and not that technical, who prefer watching this vid :)

John B totally agree .

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Coldfin9er stäubli offers it

Angelo Magto Is there any job in this world he can't do?

There's loads more tech info coming in the next vids

44Teeth much appreciated!

44Teeth Can't wait for the other vids. Tell Iain, big thanks and thanks 44teeth.

If you weren't wet before watching this, you'll be wet afterwards...

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Funny that he mentions protecting the line form kinks but nothing about bleeding air out. Every fooking time I have bleed my front brakes it was a nightmare. The fastest I ever did it was 1 hour, and one day I went through 2 six backs of beer over a 4 hour period before I could get the lever to feel good, FFS. It felt like a Twilight Zone episode. I had to drink the beer to avoid me from pouring gas over the whole thing and lighting it on fire. By the time the job was done I was so buzzed i couldn't take it out for a ride. I fell asleep in the garage and took it out the next day.

Squid Hunter ... and no traction control in BSB!! It's staggering!

Donald Trump (Verified) Think about this. Disassemble the front suspension tubes from the upside-down tube on the bike with the front wheel, brakes and fender still attached and lay it all on the floor. All that is 'unsprung weight'. All the bits attached to the bottom forks add weight. The more weight, the slower the suspension operates to keep the rubber on the road when going over bumps. You can say the same for the rear if you seperate the bottom shock link and the whole swingarm from the bike, rear brake and all. That too is unsprung weight. The whole rest of the bike is sprung weight. The lead needed to make the bike legal for weigh-in could be added anywhere on the bike. Putting it at the front just helps a tiny bit in keeping the bike from doing wheelies everytime the rider cranks the throttle.

Difficult to compare as the engine spec is slightly different and the electronics are vastly different

44Teeth yes obviously the engine and ECU differ vastly, would be interesting how much each system makes were?

Lumix GH4

pwtil could it be due to the weight of the stock exhaust with the catalytic converter? I'm none the wiser about the dukes, just throwing it out there as a possibility?

The WSBK bikes had underslung exhausts in the beginning. Definitely wasn't a cat issue. ;)

Bebeto Fandi you need flex in swing arms and frames to allow for feel and side grip

Usually the electronics detect when you enter a sector and the dash computer calculates lap/sector times times and differences

Its the radiator to cool the engine oil