Just a really great experience and everything was done as promised and on time as promised. Mark is also an incredibly friendly, unassuming, and unpretentious dude who has probably forgotten more about Ducati engines than many people will ever know and the value received for what I paid was high. I'm really grateful to the other well known guy who does this service for never returning my phone calls or emails.
It's an exciting project you have there [thumbsup]
Thanks. :) Can't wait until all the parts are spread out in front of me and I'm bolting them together.
I didn't get the whole enchilada. Just balancing and higher spec bearings. I want a bike I can ride for a loooong time without reliability concerns.
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 26, 2014, 02:01:04 PM
I didn't get the whole enchilada. Just balancing and higher spec bearings. I want a bike I can ride for a loooong time without reliability concerns.
Shoulda bought a Honda :P
just kidding
No you're not. :P
It's good you are making the bike just the way you want.
I have fantasized about spending 10K on my bike to make it perfect.
You know, to make it everything it could be. It's kinda' perfect for me already in a sense, but high end suspension front and rear, carbon or mag wheels, carbon or alloy tank, big bore motor with big valve heads, cams, more porting, custom carbon airbox, full exhaust, radial calipers, carbon bars and a full repaint.
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 26, 2014, 01:47:36 PM
I'm really grateful to the other well known guy who does this service for never returning my phone calls or emails.
Any chance this other guy is up (somewhat) near the DC area?
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 26, 2014, 02:01:04 PM
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Just balancing and higher spec bearings.
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More info on those?
Quote from: stopintime on March 26, 2014, 02:55:03 PM
More info on those?
He installs the rods with what he calls "race spec bearings and rod bolts". That's all I know, sorry. Doubt he'd BS me.
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 26, 2014, 03:15:57 PM
He installs the rods with what he calls "race spec bearings and rod bolts". That's all I know, sorry. Doubt he'd BS me.
Ah - thought he perhaps had a source for better main crankshaft bearings.
Quote from: stopintime on March 26, 2014, 03:30:34 PM
Ah - thought he perhaps had a source for better main crankshaft bearings.
He builds and blueprints a ton of engines so he might? I should have thought to ask...I just got ass raped on those from Ducati :(
Hey Look up a seller on eBay called "Valtermotousa" he has a REALLY good deal on NOS radial calipers. What type of forks do you have?
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 26, 2014, 03:47:20 PM
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Hey Look up a seller on eBay called "Valtermotousa" he has a REALLY good deal on NOS radial calipers. What type of forks do you have?
I'm not listening, I'm not listening, I'm not listening !!!!!!!!!!!!
:P
Quote from: stopintime on March 26, 2014, 03:58:03 PM
I'm not listening, I'm not listening, I'm not listening !!!!!!!!!!!!
:P
That guy has gotten SO much of my money. He buys 50 foot containers of NOS stuff from the factory in Italy. I hate him lol
Come to think of it I've held off on posting his info because I don't wanna compete with you guys for his items...
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 26, 2014, 04:09:18 PM
That guy has gotten SO much of my money. He buys 50 foot containers of NOS stuff from the factory in Italy. I hate him lol
I just turned a friend of mine on to a NOS Multistrada tank he had for sale for $599. He bought it, has it now and it is perfect. He bought a 2007 Multistrada 1100 S with less than 8,000 miles on it recently and the tank was all kinds of puffy, so bad it wouldn't fit back in the frame once he got it removed. He is coating this one and plans to ride his new toy for many years.
He has another one of those I think. I check his auctions almost every day, lol.
He just listed 2 NOS metal tanks...I'd bite on one if the colors on both weren't so hideous. Especially the metallic flake silver one. Although I tried to convince myself I liked it...
I do hope he lists one in the colors I want, black or silver. Then my build will literally be comprised of almost entirely new parts; frame/wheels/tank/front end/motor, if you count my rebuilt from the bottom up motor as a "new" motor.
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 26, 2014, 08:26:21 PM
I do hope he lists one in the colors I want, black or silver.
If only there was someone who could paint Duc parts on this forum...
;D
Quote from: DRKWNG on March 27, 2014, 03:15:23 AM
If only there was someone who could paint Duc parts on this forum...
;D
New tank from this guy is cheaper :P
Quote from: Buck Naked on March 27, 2014, 06:04:14 AM
New tank from this guy is cheaper :P
So is buying an already sorted bike. ;D
Quote from: SDRider on March 27, 2014, 07:11:19 AM
So is buying an already sorted bike. ;D
By far.... [shot]
Mark and Wendy are genuinely good people. I haven't spoken to either one in years, but when I had my Monster in the area, there was no other place I would take it.
Quote from: duccarlos on March 27, 2014, 10:02:26 AM
Mark and Wendy are genuinely good people. I haven't spoken to either one in years, but when I had my Monster in the area, there was no other place I would take it.
Wendy is long gone brother.
Quote from: kopfjäger on March 27, 2014, 04:29:05 PM
Wendy is long gone brother.
That's why I made it clear that I had not been there in some years. It's a shame.