DUCATI DESMO 450 SM | Rider's Rocket with Marc-Reiner Schmidt 🇩🇪

Hello guys, I'm Marc-Rainer Schmidt, four-time Supermoto World Champion and now I'm here in Albeida. Yes, for this year I changed with Team Undici, my brand, so we are on a brand new Ducati. We had a lot of work, it's a lot of development because the bike is from Motocross and we developed it for Supermoto. So, for example, we used different setup in the frame, different swingarm, different suspension, different brakes, so basically everything is different as well, different footpegs, yeah, tripple clamps are different with different offset, we use electronics from GED specially made for Supermoto, so it's basically just the main thing, the frame, and then we build it completely new to prepare it as good as possible for Supermoto. To drive a Supermoto bike it's a little bit special because you make normally the setup for Supermoto, I mean for asphalt, and you have to make it as good as possible for the off-road section, so it's pretty different because the Supermoto suspension is way harder compared to Motocross or Enduro because you need it for the asphalt on the hard braking zones and to find traction on the asphalt, and then it's quite complicated to find the traction as well in the off-road if you have slippery conditions, so it's not that easy, but that's the best thing on Supermoto, you don't find the perfect setup, you have to make always a compromise to make the best out of it. So let's start on the front, we have different wheels in, it's 16.5 inch and we use Metzeler tires, they are mono tires here for Supermoto World Championship, we have big Talos brakes from America and compare with Skyper brake discs to reduce the speed if we have high speed straights and yeah, for long race distance it's really important to have good brakes on it to have no fading and yeah, don't lose the brake. Next thing is really important for me, one of the most important things is the suspension, we use full Öhlins suspension, it means fork and rear shock from Öhlins Andreani from Italy, they make full setup on myself, personalized and yeah, it's my favorite suspension in any way, not only Supermoto as well as Motocross. Let's come here, it's something really special, we don't, we see maybe first time in Supermoto is from STM, the tri-clutch, you know it maybe from Ducati in Superbike World Championship, something special, really special sound, you have a little bit more power and yeah, I like it a lot, we make a quite a good setup. We can continue with STM, it's like different dribble clamps, we can use different offset to use the bike like a little bit shorter, a little bit longer on the front, yeah, on top we use a different brake pump as well to have a little bit more pressure on the front brake. Left side you can see the mapping from Gett, we have different mappings here and as well a traction control on it, so really nice to use this. If we go a little bit on the back, you see as well Talos brake then in front because we use also a rear brake especially in off-road. From Chassis Factory we use the swingarm which is more wide because the tire is more big in compared to Motocross and you can go shorter and longer, so yeah, it's also a little bit different for the stability because you have compared to Motocross where you use the walls, in Supermoto you have like all the energy go like that into the asphalt. Then the next thing is the linkage, we use it from Spyder, so you can reduce the rear height of the bike like higher or lower, quite important in compared to different tracks, so we use it a lot. Rear wheel is 17 inch and you can choose in between 5.0 and 5.5 of the wideness. We use as well Metzeler tires, they are 165-55-17, so way bigger than Motocross. The next thing, you can see it's quite a big X-House, we have a lot of noise control and yeah, it's important to stay in the noise limit, so this one is from MT-Race X-House from VM Racing, quite big but bring us a lot of power. Yeah, that's the main parts I would say, we have all the different sprockets because we have more high-speeding compared to Motocross and yeah, that's our main things we use and that's part of my job here, yeah. Yeah, so thank you guys for watching this one, I hope to see you on a Supermoto race, nice to watch I think and yeah, come over and have a good time.