DS1000SS Nekkid Roadster Build

[Nekkid Tim]

Got the bike back from the Ducati Dealer Who Will Not Be Named.

GT1000 instrument panel works.
ECU sent out and immobilizer circuitry nullified.

Then, on 9/19, at what had (up until then) been a fun track day, I crashed hard into the tire wall outside turn eight at Summit Point Main, messed up the ultra light track bike pretty good, myself even better; shattered my left humerus into four pieces (elbow to shoulder stainless steel plate & 12 screws surgically inserted 9/20) and broke my right leg just below the hip socket.  $37,000  helicopter evac to Winchester Memorial; four days there, then two weeks @ acute rehab hospital in Aldie.  Now back to work, outpatient rehab twice a week.

Here's the arm right after surgery:

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I was somewhat stunned:

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While I was still in the rehab hospital learning to walk again, I was even more stunned to receive this:

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Anyway, a little more than five weeks have passed, and I'm doing much better.  I went back to work 1/2 time on October 12, and today was my first full time day back at work.

I've been doing a little fiddling on the street bike project too attend to my mental rehab, as well.

I installed a toggle switch to replace the factory ignition switch and key. (This was the first, test switch, and it was the wrong type, but worked well enough to let me know that all would be well with the correct switch):

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I installed the lowering footpegs:

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I replaced the titanium bolts securing the rear brake rotor with the oem steel bolts, so the speedo works.  Hurt though, adding weight back to the bike!  (A hurt that is somewhat tempered by the fact that I have lost 15 pounds since the accident.)

Next up is fabricating a bracket for the Ohlins steering damper, and replacing the non-sealed DPST ignition switch with a new triple-sealed switch, and fabricating a mount for that in some super secret hidden location.

Oh, yeah, and I had a friend take the bike out for a ride and he came back with an idiotic grin on his face.

I'll probably just bore out the track bike motor to 1,123 (?) cc over the winter, lower the compression a half point or so, and install it in the street bike, because after 28 fun-filled years at the track, I've decided to leave that to the next generation!

Oh, and ....  I went by my storage unit today after my first full eight hour day at work, (and an hour of physical therapy after that), and took my first look at the track bike since the accident:

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Untitled by s4rsrider, on Flickr

(You can't see it, but the front BST carbon fiber wheel is nicely shattered, and the carbon-Kevlar ETI FuelCel "Sprint" fuel tank ruptured.)

I should probably continue to concentrate on the street project!

Tim in Herndon, Va.   Happy to be alive.

[Kopfjager]

Ouch!!

[NAKID]

Damn man! Heal up quick.

What caused the crash?

[koko64]

Yikes!
Heal up man.

[Howie]

Ouch indeed!

To a quick and complete recovery 

[ducpainter]

What howie said!

[Nekkid Tim]

Damn man! Heal up quick.

What caused the crash?

Throttle stuck wide open exiting turn seven. 

[Nekkid Tim]

A few low quality pics of the project as it looks now, kind of "dry build" complete - about where I wanted to be at the beginning of the summer.  Not that I am complaining, mind you!

Rider's eye view.  Ducati 749/999 radial master cylinders.  OEM Ducati 1000SS left handlebar switch assembly; I need to have a custom, longer choke cable made before I can actually hook up the choke (really, fast idle) lever. OEM European Ducati right handlebar switch assembly with headlight off/city/on switch instead of the U.S. blank-off plate.  OEM Ducati 848 grips. OEM NOS Ducati GT1000 instrument cluster.  Modified triple clamp with Ducati Monster S2R1000 top triple, replica Norton 850 Commando Roadster (U.S. or "western") handlebars, aftermarket carbon fiber replicas of Ducati Monster headlamp bucket, headlamp support ears.  OEM Ducati Monster headlamp & trim ring, and turn signals.  Napoleon Baren bar-end mirrors.

Project Street Light by s4rsrider, on Flickr

Left side view.  Carbon fiber Monster replica front fender.  BST carbon fiber wheels.  ETI Fuelcel carbon-kevlar "Sprint" model fuel tank.  Carbon fiber replica Ducati 916 monoposto tail with Sargeant saddle.  Modified frame with OEM Ducati 916 monoposto alloy subframe.  BUB Enterprises upswept reverse cone megaphone slip-ons on oem Ducati 1000SS headers.  Custom hangars.  1991-1998 generation Ducati 900SS lightweight alloy sidestand and sidestand mount. Side mounted dual ignition coils relocated under the fuel tank. 

Project Street Light by s4rsrider, on Flickr

Rear view.  Carbon fiber undertray and rear fender, carbon fiber hugger.  OEM Ducati 916 taillight and turn signals.

Project Street Light by s4rsrider, on Flickr

Overhead view:

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Right/front 3/4 view:   Ducati Performance 1098 carbon fiber clutch cover, Ducati Performance carbon fiber cam drive belt covers

Project Street Light by s4rsrider, on Flickr

Right/rear 3/4 view: "razor cut" rear brake rotor, titanium rear axle.

Project Street Light by s4rsrider, on Flickr

[Pinion]

sorry to hear about the crash, good to hear you will be well

[Nekkid Tim]

sorry to hear about the crash, good to hear you will be well

Thanks, I'm sure I'll feel better when I can ride again!  Surgeon on Wednesday said Thanksgiving; so about three-four weeks.  Hope we have one of our customary warm-ups about that time, so I can take the project bike out for a short ride.

Meanwhile, I'm working on figuring out how I'll rebuild the track bike for sale, and which bits off it (besides the motor and the front brake rotors at this point) will eventually go on the street project.

[koko64]

Part of rehab is project work .
Looking good. Intrrested in the dry weight when your done.

[Nekkid Tim]

Part of rehab is project work .
Looking good. Intrrested in the dry weight when your done.

Rode for the first time yesterday since the crash on 9/19/2-016.  66 days off motorcycles, longest since I started riding in the summer of 1978.

Feel alive again.

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I rode the bike to my local independent motorcycle dealer (Who Shall Not Be Named, in case someone once had a bad time with that particular establishment) and siphoned most of the fuel out of the tank.  Up it went on the calibrated race scale.

                    339 pounds.

Pretty happy with that.

Put the gas back in it and rode home.

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Special thanks to by former MSF instructing partner, former LD riding partner, former race partner, and one of my best friends, George Vensko, for driving 80 miles to my house to go riding with me, and to his girl Melodie for snapping the photos of me riding.

[koko64]

 
Very cool on a number of levels.

[Nekkid Tim]

So some dry build "shakedown" notes.   All four of the brass ferrules for the bolts that secure the rear taillight and seat bracket hardware pulled out of the aftermarket carbon fiber monoposto 916 tail section on my way to work earlier this week:

Snaps by s4rsrider, on Flickr

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It was an interesting ride home, with the seat/tail/taillight secured only by the front seat latch and my body weight!

So, I figured, back on with the heavy (but sturdy!) ABS plastic OEM Ducati 916 monoposto tail section, and while I was at it, an OEM Monster front fender:

Snaps by s4rsrider, on Flickr

Snaps by s4rsrider, on Flickr


I have also decided that - even though I used to *LOVE* bar end mirrors on *all* my vintage bikes, and even though this bike in 2016 pretty much *IS* a vintage bike; I don't like them after all.   So I spent several hours combing through both used OEM Ducati mirrors as well as aftermarket offerings both new and used, on eBay and elsewhere.  Ended up buying these lightly used "take-off" Ducati Diavel mirrors:

diavel_mirrors by s4rsrider, on Flickr

Tim

[koko64]

I agree, the bar end mirrors don't suit that bike. The yellow front guard and tail section tie in quite well too.