I know they make swingarms, dont know if they make to order. Could ask them I guess. Prefer someone in the EU though. Since Brexit I have to pay over 30% import and handling fees from anything that comes in from the UK. Worse than that though, if I send mine to Metmachex THEY have to pay UK import charges on it... and even though the swingarm isnt theirs, they wont get that money back.
Not sure if these guys do custom work, but you could ask: https://www.chassisfactory.nl/en/ These guys certainly do custom work: https://www.bakker-framebouw.nl/?lang=en
That is their special ‘please go away and bother someone else’ price. If you are daft enough to go for it, we will farm it out to a fab shop, paying them £2000 - 2500. Or maybe they took it that you wanted an exact copy, including the, ahem, how should I say… impressionist welding, which, for anyone who really makes top quality fab work in aluminium would struggle to copy the , umm… chubby welds, gaps and inclusions. (No offence meant, hope your beloved grandad didn’t make it by hand with an acetylene lamp in hard times)
Yes I figured that it was a 'sod off son' And no my grandad didnt make it, he was German Flak Gunner, not an Italian working for Verlicchi. This is an Original first Edition 851 Tricolore Kit swingarm (I'm assuming its a verlicchi, it might be Ducati factory made)
Why do you want it copied? If you don't mind me asking...Maybe it can be restored if that would be a solution?
Were the Verlicci arms the standard 851 and they just added the bracing? That would be the normal practice unless the length was changed. Weren’t the early monster alu arms the same dims as the 851? It would be a lot smaller job to obtain and brace one of those than a full fab from scratch.
No. The 1988 851 Tricolore Strada and Kit were homologation specials. Pretty different from the 1989 onwards 851's and 888's that you are familiar with. My TT1-F1 currently has a converted post 89 swing... And it just niggles me 'cos its massive.
