SETUP

The factory yokes allow plus or minus half a degree, and the offset can be changed from 22.5, 25 and 27.5. The adjustable swingarm pivot also offers lots of adjustment. Despite the feast of adjustability, the team tend to run a base setting and mess with suspension clicks and spring weights rather than an overdose of geometry alteration. The rear- end of the bike was run a lot lower at Cadwell than other circuits. Every time they went lower, there was more contact on the brakes and more grip on the exit of the turn. As Mlav mention in his chat, the R1 works in mysterious ways. “Because the R1 is new to us, we don’t have any data from track to track. We do have a base setting but that changes all the time, and we’ll go to Snetterton basically as we finished Cadwell Park apart from the gearing and wheelbase.”