|
Title: 200,000 miles Post by: PhilB on July 14, 2012, 05:54:26 PM Turned over the odometer this afternoon, for the second time on the old Monster ('93 M900).
Starting the third pass; it's running strong. Next stop -- the Moon! PhilB Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: Howie on July 14, 2012, 06:29:45 PM [thumbsup] [beer]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: eric on July 14, 2012, 08:22:37 PM Wow [thumbsup]!! Tlhat's about 10k miles per year? Whereabouts has it brought you to?
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: 1KDS on July 14, 2012, 08:37:35 PM That's awesome Phil! [beer]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: sofadriver on July 14, 2012, 09:01:38 PM Way to go, Phil !! [thumbsup] [clap]
I've been waiting for this. Your bike may be destined for the Ducati Museum! Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: duc996 on July 14, 2012, 09:06:53 PM Amazing! congrats [thumbsup]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: cokey on July 14, 2012, 09:25:08 PM Highest ever? Some one contact dna..
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: koko64 on July 14, 2012, 11:51:29 PM A great acheivement! [clap]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: ab on July 15, 2012, 04:26:51 AM Hats off to you. It's just great to hear this achievement.
What kind of engine maintenance did you go through? What kind of history did U 2 have? Post up pics of then and now :) Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: pitbull on July 15, 2012, 05:37:23 AM awesome, just awesome.
that is one well-used and enjoyed monster. Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: okboatie1 on July 15, 2012, 06:29:49 AM That is awesome! Congrats to you Sir and your Monster
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: PhilB on July 15, 2012, 06:55:58 AM Wow [thumbsup]!! Tlhat's about 10k miles per year? Whereabouts has it brought you to? It's been my daily transportation for almost 19 years, so that's most of it. I'm also up to having gone to 26 states of the lower 48 on it.Highest ever? Some one contact dna.. DNA is aware of the bike; they've seen it several times at various events around the country. I know of several Ducs over 100K. The highest I know of is Gary Eagan's ST4, that he set several endurance riding records on -- it has about 225K, and currently is in the Barber museum. Mine is second, AFAIK, but I'm not nearly done with it yet.Hats off to you. It's just great to hear this achievement. The engine has required very little aside from basic maintenance. I had the weak chrome head studs initially; most of those got replaced at around 25K, but my shop just discovered last month, while handling a base gasket leak, that there were still 3 of the original faulty studs, so they replaced those. We put in piston rings and replaced a failed alternator bearing at 122K, a clutch basket at 140K, new (used) carburetors at 185K, just recently fixed a cylinder base gasket leak and replaced various seals and o-rings in the top end. And that's about it. Bottom end and transmission haven't seen the light of day since the bike was built.What kind of engine maintenance did you go through? What kind of history did U 2 have? Post up pics of then and now :) There are some pics of it at the Indy MotoGP in 2010 in this thread: http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=10036.msg1048175#msg1048175 (http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=10036.msg1048175#msg1048175) It was a "Bike of the Month" on this site back in August 2005, with the story up that point and lots o' pictures. I don't know if those are still archived on this site or not. PhilB Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: ducpainter on July 15, 2012, 07:03:53 AM FTR...
It was bike of the month on TOB... ducatimonster.org This site came into being in '08. We do not archive anything from there. Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: DucHead on July 15, 2012, 07:11:48 AM Congrats Phil! [Dolph]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: PhilB on July 15, 2012, 07:18:42 AM FTR... Oops. Yep, right.It was bike of the month on TOB... ducatimonster.org This site came into being in '08. We do not archive anything from there. PhilB Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: dark_duc on July 15, 2012, 08:31:25 AM Awesome! [thumbsup]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: Speedbag on July 15, 2012, 08:48:02 AM Way cool. [Dolph]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: JohnEE on July 16, 2012, 08:52:51 AM Congrats! [beer] [drink]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: Autostrada Pilot on July 16, 2012, 11:10:10 AM Well done, sir. [thumbsup]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: glbrto on July 16, 2012, 03:37:22 PM Congrats! What a milestone [clap]
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: bdub on July 16, 2012, 04:09:03 PM Very amazing. Thats alot of miles for anything
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: PhilB on July 16, 2012, 07:54:54 PM Thanks, everyone.
Another interesting thought -- this milestone also puts the bike somewhere in the vicinity of having done 1,000,000,000 engine revolutions. That's kind of neato. PhilB Title: Re: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: duccarlos on July 17, 2012, 04:10:59 AM Great job keeping her running Phil!
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: Nero-92 on July 17, 2012, 01:44:10 PM I hope I can keep mine going for even half of that well done and loads of respect.
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: DucatiBastard on July 17, 2012, 07:14:56 PM Well done Phil!
Weren't you featured in Motorcyclist awhile back? In their "Me and My Bike" column? Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: PhilB on July 17, 2012, 07:27:55 PM Well done Phil! Thanks. Yes, the Dec09 issue. Only had 165K at that time.Weren't you featured in Motorcyclist awhile back? In their "Me and My Bike" column? PhilB Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: lethe on July 18, 2012, 07:35:14 AM Thanks. Yes, the Dec09 issue. Only had 165K at that time. "only" [laugh]PhilB Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: GK on July 18, 2012, 11:57:42 PM That's amazing.
Makes my Monster with 47,000 kilometres on it look positively youthful! :) GK Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: bigiain on July 19, 2012, 02:29:02 AM Congrats man!
But I'm catching you up, ever so slowly… ;-) big Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: duclvr on July 19, 2012, 05:36:16 AM Wow! Congrats!
Title: Re: 200,000 miles Post by: PhilB on July 19, 2012, 06:39:05 AM Congrats man! Excellent! Too bad you're way down under; it would be really cool once you also pass 200K to get both our bikes over the Barber museum, have them roll out Gary Eagan's ST4, and get a pic with three 200K+ Ducatis.But I'm catching you up, ever so slowly… ;-) big PhilB |