Meravigliosa Creatura "Ducati 749" by South Garage

via: southgaragecafe

Ducati Monster by Diesel

Vincent's Ducati

A while back Vincent, the guy I built the Virago and the CX500 chopper with, bought a Ducati Cagiva Pantah 650. He sold his Yamaha R1 for it and that was a wise decission. The Ducatis isn't even finished yet, but I'm pretty sure he's already done more miles on it, than on the R1 in 3 seasons....

Although the bike is not finished yet, it is taking shape nicely. At this moment it has custom made exhaust pipes with modified mufflers, Emco air filters, air-supension at the back, a CX500 C gas tank, a seat made of a CX500 C gas tank, Tomasselli clipons, home made headlight and license plate brackets, after market headlight, Honda speedo and a seat made by the same guy (Raymond) that did the seat on my CB750.

Vincent took the Ducati for a test ride yesterday, while I tried to fine tune the Virago

As I said, it's work in progress. Heat shields on the exhausts are on his to-do list (though it's not a big problem)

And the engine needs some tuning (it's running a bit lean). 

All in all the bike is great fun and is nearly ready for the summer season.

We also did a short video, time was running out a bit and I filmed it from the Virago which was a surprisingly hard platform for filming (it's way easier on my BMW or the CB). The engine noise you hear is 100% the noise produced by the Virago, shame, cause the Duc sounds great too!

Bikes at the Vehikel swap meet (March 2012)

I needed to get the BMW up to temperature to set the timing (see the previous blog post). At the moment the Vehikel swap meet is going on only a few minutes from my house (see my report from the Vehikel swap meet last December: Vehikel). I don't really need any parts and the entrance is quite expensive, so I just went there to have a look at the bikes parked outside.

Conditions were far from ideal, so the photo's aren't that great, but some of the bikes were really interesting:

Dimostrazione di guardrail "assassino"

Ducati Monster 900 Cafe Racer

via: chickenshackducatiproject.blogspot.com

Ducati 900GTS Café by Nicholas Franz Huber

Nicholas Huber and his Ducati 900 GTS 1979 Darmah case model, Pretty much bone stock except Conti pipes, clip-ons and Evan Wilcox Aluminum tank.. I,ve owned the bike for 4 years. Have an SS aluminum seat and rear sets in the works over the long winter here in Minnesota..

HYPER X By Radical Ducati

-Base : HYPERMOTARD 1100 S
-2 in 1 Termignoni exhaust system
-Racing air filter
-Ohlins fork
-Ergal triple clamps yoke
-Discacciati 320 big rotors
-RAD carbon fiber front mudguard
-MT03 front light
-Tamburini Cross handlebar
-RAD carbon fiber fuel tank side panels
-RAD carbon fiber fuel tank up cover
-Hyperchallenge side plate numbers
-Hyperchallenge modified solo seat
-RAD enduro licence plate support .
-RAD led blinkers
-RAD carbon fiber belt covers
-EVR ventilated clutch pressure plate
-EVR clutch cover
-RAD carbon fiber rear mudguard.
-Rizoma crash bumpers.

via: radducati.blogspot.com