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I dont know if this is a derby or not. But some of you may know the few people here who mod their bikes to hell.

heres another one of them that takes the members here, and multiples it by 10. over 150pages worth of pics in weight comparision, before and afters and other stuff.

http://www.ducati.ms/forums/showthread.php?t=54639 (http://www.ducati.ms/forums/showthread.php?t=54639)

gross. and awesome.

Damn.

From the thread "I appreciate that. I work two jobs, leaving home at 7:00am and don't usually get home until 11:00pm.

Besides my family, working on bike is my only passion in life."


Seems...silly to me.

Nothing is good for you when taken in excess, even if it's the finest thing in life.  Nevertheless, great mods and even greater dedication.

Gaudy

(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8708/996resize.jpg)

Seems like someone grew up playing too much grand turismo. very nice bike however

nothing subtle about it

hmmmm

neato

tooooooooooooo much...IMO most of the mods are cool and all but not all at once...

how do you figure that? I can name you a few people who have pretty tricked out monsters here with almost everything replaced... and then theres taft with his titanium fetish im sure hed want to get his hands on that rear rotor!

i think the bike is awesome aside from the mirrors and grip....those look better black.

Not the direction I would go with the 996 since lots of mods are more bling factor.. ok I admit I am just jealoused  ;D
Great build and seem to be a down to earth guy too.

color issues.  burgundy red billet everywhere looks awful. sprocket cover, rear sprocket carrier, rotor carriers, rearsets grips mirrors.... no.

too many colors.  frame is silver...but nothing else is.

and, although its fun for racing bikes, a red bull replica with headlights is not my cup of tea.

Is it better than the pure carbon 998? Debatable.

I'd really like the addition of many of these parts had it not came out looking so busy. Many of them could have been made black, siliver or the grey color of the frame (ti ano perhaps) and the whole shebang would have come together a lot better.

I can appreciate the build but have to agree on some of the styling issues.  For the amount of coin he was dropping he also seemed to take some really odd shortcuts...

yea im not a big fan of the red. but other then that, hes got some good bling on that.

i didnt even notice the redbull on the headlights. 1 on each side is enough.

was I the only one creeped out by all the suits on the wall, stored with gloves and boots on?

I am jealous of that dude's disposable income, but the bike... not so much.

Did anyone else notice that he didn't rip off the emissions canister until page 59?!

 [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

And did anyone notice that he did some of the anodizing himself?   :o

the whole bike is done by himself which is the cool part! apprently he has acceess to the anodizing mavchine at his work place. lucky sob!

It's actually pretty easy. We built a small-scale anodizing setup at my last employer for smaller parts using small coolers for the tanks. Before you knew it every little aluminum part laying around was purty.

http://www.diyanodizing.com/index.html (http://www.diyanodizing.com/index.html)

I can respect a guy who's willing to grind down his new magnesium swingarm to get an Ohlins shock to fit.


The way they look slumped over with the helmets is indeed a little creepy.

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or like they are waiting for somebody to count them in for a dance routine.

Whenever I see those leathers and helmets I keep hearing in my head, "Open the pod bay doors HAL."

all your leathers are belong to us!

chains too tight

Damn you He Man.  Just spent my weekend reading that whole thing.  Not cool. >:(

I gave up on like page 10...

i went back and looked through more of the thread. I'm unimpressed with some of the pictures and writeup, I just don't give a make the beast with two backs about your grips and and bar ends, that does not make the bike for me,ever. (But it sure can ruin a look, here's some evidence imo).

its just so damn busy that its hard to appreciate the fancy parts. all the make the beast with two backsing stickers and logos and shit, i can't stop using expletives.

I looked through all 118 pages.

I have to give this guy the [thumbsup]  He's gone to extraordinary efforts to reduce weight, and I dig that.

I can't wait to see the final weight of this thing, it's going to be really really light.

Seems like everywhere he works on it, he finds a way to shed pounds  Pretty much every bolt is now Ti.

He even swapped out the fan for a 1098 fan that saved weight and moved more air.

There's a ton of Corse race stuff on there that I've never even heard of (partially because I don't get into sbk's that much, and partially because the bike is old)  The aluminum Corse coolant tank is a work of art.  It's mounted in front of the steering stem (designed to be) to accommodate a larger air box made of carbon fiber.

The brakes are killer as are the wheels they're mounted to.

The rear rotor is titanium to save weight (pounds)

It could be painted like a ups truck and I'd still love it.

:D

I guess I didn't find the Titanium rear rotor all that novel, since Yoyodyne sells them. I just wasn't wowed in the same way about that.


What's lighter than 1098 fans? No fans. And you don't need them on a track bike, only useful when the bikes not moving and its on, such as in traffic.

Kind of hard to reconcile the track related parts, and then, not track related implementation (such as using two headlights instead of track bodywork cut out for a single headlight... Advanced Motorsports in Alvarado has 999 series bike with a single polyellipsoidal headlight that looks like a track/race bike, has tucked-into-the-cockpit fairings mirrors, and everything else that makes it street legal.)

If you read carefully, he wasn't shedding pounds.

He didn't know how to read his scale and it was actually ounces.

That makes sense.

Red Bull.  [puke]

Engineers  [roll]

Inches, millimeters - what's the difference.  :)

"The Metric Conversion Act of 1975"

bahaha

Aesthetically I don't like it but beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I do appreciate his dedication and time spent making his bike unique.  That can't be argued.  [thumbsup]

Well, it can't be argued that you appreciate those things, but beauty is not in the eye of the beholder.  The ability to recognize beauty is.

if you get real real drunk it looks ok

[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

 [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink]

Not yet...

 [wine] [wine] [wine] [wine]

...almost...

 [drink] [drink] [drink] [drink]

...ooohhhhh...

 [puke]

once it looks like the bull is moving, or i get squinty eyed and imagine the redness is in my eyes and not on the billet, it looks better. also, then i can't see the headlights, and i'm look oooooh racebike.

then i find my way to the bathroom because estoy borracho.

thanks to neighbor debbie and the christmas booze, i am enjoying it.