What is your favorite Ducati or aftermarket swingarm?

Started by MotoCreations, January 29, 2010, 02:31:27 PM

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MotoCreations


DSS = Double Sided Swingarm
SSS = Single Sided Swingarm

Two conversations via the phone today with people asking "what is your favorite Ducati or aftermarket swingarm" -- and thus my posting to everyone as well.  Amazingly there are (were) a lot of options over the years and most have made it onto a Ducati Monster inevitably via Ducati itself, the aftermarket or custom builders.  (note: most won't always swap and require fabrication skills to make happen)

My two favorites are the 916 masterpiece -- it's robust and clean looking and I've swapped uncountable iterations of them over the years.  But I will admit that everytime I see the MH900e tubular singlesided swingarm -- I think it's definitely cool.

Thus my question:  "What is your favorite Ducati or aftermarket swingarm?"


Duck-Stew

Not listed:  2003-2006 SS1000i.e.

2nd place:  S*R in silver

3rd place:  1*98/848
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Triple J

This one (without the hugger). I have no idea who makes it.


NAKID

I voted for the MH, but a close second is the asymmetrical Sport Classic DSS...
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Travman

#4
My favorite is the one Triple J listed above.  If I remember correctly that swingarm was made by Moto Corse and it was available from Desmoworks. 


2nd: MH900e tubular SSS
3rd: S*R done in black (like in Bill in OKC's avatar)
     
4th: Sport Classic with single sided shock

The swingarm on the Bimota DB7 looks hot too.


junior varsity

1st: MH900e
2nd: MotoCorse tubular DSS swingarm. The one pictured by TripleJ and Travman above.
3rd: None come close to those two. MV Agusta SSS would be up next. See Bradmiller's 999 with it installed [thumbsup]

junior varsity


junior varsity

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Ohmic



1. MH900e. Guess i'm bias  :)
2. I have to say any of the 916 base sss are awesome. 1098's, Hyper & Multi. I especially like the 1098's "beefier" look. Love how the welds shows. Ducati did a good job not painting it.
'It's NOT a Harley... It's a Ducati!'

Bike#1: 2002 Ducati MH900e #1801
Bike#2: 2006 Ducati Monster S2R1000
Bike#3: 2006 Ducati Sport1000
Bike#4: 2008 Ducati HyperMotard 1100

MotoCreations

Quote from: ato memphis on January 29, 2010, 04:45:05 PM
MV Agusta F4 swingarm on Ducati 999:

It's an aftermarket swingarm based upon the style of the MV Agusta F4 swingarm. (An MV Agusta swingarm uses a frame pivot -vs- enginecase pivot and would be difficult at best to modify to work on a Ducati) They were available when the 999 was first introduced but for an insane price.  A customer had one on his 999S.  If I remember right, it was made by Febur and they were cast in magnesium. 


junior varsity

Quote from: MotoCreations on January 29, 2010, 07:38:48 PM
It's an aftermarket swingarm based upon the style of the MV Agusta F4 swingarm. (An MV Agusta swingarm uses a frame pivot -vs- enginecase pivot and would be difficult at best to modify to work on a Ducati) They were available when the 999 was first introduced but for an insane price.  A customer had one on his 999S.  If I remember right, it was made by Febur and they were cast in magnesium. 

That is most likely what he did. I'll ask more next time I see him, but I'd venture a guess that you're spot on. Its makes my mouth sweat either way.


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Bill in OKC

It was the S*R tubular SSS that sucked me in to my first and (so far) only Ducati purchase.  I couldn't take my eyes off of that swingarm and then the rest of the bike started coming into focus.  Now I've got one more obsession I never saw coming.
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