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New SS conceptualizing - what should ducati build poll winner

Started by Raux, March 31, 2009, 12:14:47 PM

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Alexandre

#30
April 02, 2009, 10:05:39 AM
Quote from: Statler on April 02, 2009, 09:11:02 AM
a street legal NCR millona with a trelis swingarm and the right headlight would do it for me.

looks great, but i would also like something affordable

ducatiz

#31
April 02, 2009, 10:17:48 AM
Quote from: Alexandre on April 02, 2009, 10:05:39 AM
looks great, but i would also like something affordable

i wonder if he meant the look or the entire shebang

the NCR bikes have tasty bits like carbon fiber everywhere, magnesium engine covers/cases and titanium tube exhausts..  change that to PCA, regular aluminum and stainless and you could probably duplicate it for a more common price.
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A.duc.H.duc.

#32
April 02, 2009, 11:53:26 AM
Yeah, I think the point was styling, really the whole feel of the NCR. The NCR takes what an SS would be and readys it for the track.

If you took the layout and engineer of the NCR as a prototype and built a street bike from it, I think you'd have a real winner.
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Alexandre

#33
April 02, 2009, 02:31:00 PM
Quote from: ducatizzzz on April 02, 2009, 10:17:48 AM
i wonder if he meant the look or the entire shebang

the NCR bikes have tasty bits like carbon fiber everywhere, magnesium engine covers/cases and titanium tube exhausts..  change that to PCA, regular aluminum and stainless and you could probably duplicate it for a more common price.

i guess i take things to literally...

I like the look of the half fairing, and the overall feel of the bike but would like to see a SSS

ducatiz

#34
April 02, 2009, 04:14:46 PM
Quote from: Alexandre on April 02, 2009, 02:31:00 PM
i guess i take things to literally...

I like the look of the half fairing,

does it remind you of this:

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Alexandre

#35
April 02, 2009, 05:15:10 PM
Quote from: ducatizzzz on April 02, 2009, 04:14:46 PM
does it remind you of this:

Well, of course.

I mentioned before that I would like the half fairing option, and I like this idea of one; less SV650S angular and more flowing like these.

superjohn

#36
April 02, 2009, 05:25:03 PM
3 pages of responses and no one's mentioned Hunter S. Thompson yet.

I want a hunch backed, bright red, warp speed cafe racer.

As to why an SS over a superbike

"Pure speed in sixth gear on a 5000-foot straightaway is one thing, but pure speed in third gear on a gravel-strewn downhill ess-turn is quite another." - HST

jftoha

#37
April 03, 2009, 04:46:38 PM
Well, to quote Hunter S. Thompson in reference to the Ducati's SS.

" I rather be shot out of a cannon than squeezed out of a tube"

Now, that is living life to the fullest!!!

Quote from: superjohn on April 02, 2009, 05:25:03 PM
3 pages of responses and no one's mentioned Hunter S. Thompson yet.

I want a hunch backed, bright red, warp speed cafe racer.

As to why an SS over a superbike

"Pure speed in sixth gear on a 5000-foot straightaway is one thing, but pure speed in third gear on a gravel-strewn downhill ess-turn is quite another." - HST
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