Against all sane advice, I'm gonna start chewing away at the only running bike in the stable. Baby steps, only a couple bits of this build will involve the bike actually being unrideable.
Current plan:
- Headlight. MT03 is still being considered, but I'm strongly leaning towards a number plate design I have in my head.
- Subframe needs to be powdercoated gloss black to match the frame. Alternatively considering coating both frame and subby in dark blood red or in burnt gold-ish.
- Side fairings painted satin black, with the "DUCATI" being redone in the old style font (link) in either white or in the same gold as the maybe-frame color.
- Engine cleaned and painted black, and cleared of wires and peripheral clutter.
- Clean up the bars a bit. Maybe swap a drag bar in if I can find a fatty tapered one.
- Minimal cafe-ish carbon tail bit to replace the stupid whale-tail thing the Italians stuck on there, should cover the back of the subframe eliminating the need for any choppy-weldy.
- Exhaust, maybe. I'm envisioning isolated dual pipes with some cool pie-cut bends and shit dumping at different points... kinda similar to the RSDuc, but less gaudy.... but I have a good bit of math and compromising to do to make that happen. On one hand it already has a ~$3k(!) Termi system on it designed by the pro's to make as much power as possible, and the dual exhaust has the potential to suck a non-trivial amount of power from the engine. On the other hand, selling the Termi stuff would cover my cost in the bike a few times over and the duals would look tits. The cans will look silly sticking out as far as they do with where I want the tail to be, but chopping it up seems unwise. So... we'll see where that goes.
Current plan:
- Headlight. MT03 is still being considered, but I'm strongly leaning towards a number plate design I have in my head.
- Subframe needs to be powdercoated gloss black to match the frame. Alternatively considering coating both frame and subby in dark blood red or in burnt gold-ish.
- Side fairings painted satin black, with the "DUCATI" being redone in the old style font (link) in either white or in the same gold as the maybe-frame color.
- Engine cleaned and painted black, and cleared of wires and peripheral clutter.
- Clean up the bars a bit. Maybe swap a drag bar in if I can find a fatty tapered one.
- Minimal cafe-ish carbon tail bit to replace the stupid whale-tail thing the Italians stuck on there, should cover the back of the subframe eliminating the need for any choppy-weldy.
- Exhaust, maybe. I'm envisioning isolated dual pipes with some cool pie-cut bends and shit dumping at different points... kinda similar to the RSDuc, but less gaudy.... but I have a good bit of math and compromising to do to make that happen. On one hand it already has a ~$3k(!) Termi system on it designed by the pro's to make as much power as possible, and the dual exhaust has the potential to suck a non-trivial amount of power from the engine. On the other hand, selling the Termi stuff would cover my cost in the bike a few times over and the duals would look tits. The cans will look silly sticking out as far as they do with where I want the tail to be, but chopping it up seems unwise. So... we'll see where that goes.