Never realised there was a motorbike thread.
Here's my garbage.
It's a '94 Ducati 600ss. I can only ride up to 660 due to novice rider laws, so anything faster was out. It had to be a Ducati because I like being a financially unstable idiot. So it was either this, a 400ss which can't go up hills, or a 600 Monster but I don't like how they look.
Candidate was found 4h drive each way from home:
Note the disgusting tri-colour 600ss logo in the seat
Not running due to 2 year old fuel, I rebuilt the carbs, fresh fluids throughout, fired it up and got right down to the task of annoying neighbours.
Put a few thousand km on it like this.
But as always, the perfectionist itch must be scratched.
So it became this:
And then the frame looked like this:
I then had a jigsaw puzzle to put back together
Only "uprated" parts were some new fork springs.
Few more thousand km on it as pictured.
Yet again however, the itch returned.....
Found the front forks, twin disc setup, front and rear wheel of a 1000ss.
Bought new Brembo clutch and brake master cyls with external reservoirs (hugely expensive).
Finally got the fairings blocked back and put the stickers on too.
Got it together a few months ago and absolutely loving life. Such a joy to ride. The lighter wheels make a difference, the new front forks are in a different world to the originals, and the braking power, my God....
Time to get it to the track!
Pictured at a pizza place run by a bike mad Italian. He was so excited he named the new special the "Salami V-twin".
Mrs 998 then dumped half its coolant on the footpath. Average Italian bike experience
Here's my garbage.
It's a '94 Ducati 600ss. I can only ride up to 660 due to novice rider laws, so anything faster was out. It had to be a Ducati because I like being a financially unstable idiot. So it was either this, a 400ss which can't go up hills, or a 600 Monster but I don't like how they look.
Candidate was found 4h drive each way from home:
Note the disgusting tri-colour 600ss logo in the seat
Not running due to 2 year old fuel, I rebuilt the carbs, fresh fluids throughout, fired it up and got right down to the task of annoying neighbours.
Put a few thousand km on it like this.
But as always, the perfectionist itch must be scratched.
So it became this:
And then the frame looked like this:
I then had a jigsaw puzzle to put back together
Only "uprated" parts were some new fork springs.
Few more thousand km on it as pictured.
Yet again however, the itch returned.....
Found the front forks, twin disc setup, front and rear wheel of a 1000ss.
Bought new Brembo clutch and brake master cyls with external reservoirs (hugely expensive).
Finally got the fairings blocked back and put the stickers on too.
Got it together a few months ago and absolutely loving life. Such a joy to ride. The lighter wheels make a difference, the new front forks are in a different world to the originals, and the braking power, my God....
Time to get it to the track!
Pictured at a pizza place run by a bike mad Italian. He was so excited he named the new special the "Salami V-twin".
Mrs 998 then dumped half its coolant on the footpath. Average Italian bike experience
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