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Well today I have spent a few hours out and about on the twisties of West Yorkshire (even meeting with swmbo for lunch in a nice country pub).

In short the bike is a hoot and just loves being thrown around corners! It's not as ferocious or as manic as my panigale as you would expect, nor is it as comfortable for long periods in the saddle, but it's a lot of fun.

Brakes are ok. Not as pin point sharp as a sports bike but as you're not going anywhere near as fast they are more than adequate in pulling you to a standstill in plenty of time.

I didn't feel much head buffeting till I was getting over the 85mph mark. But again as its a more sedate ride I'd be amazed at anyone having to suffer that over any long periods of time.

The 75 horses are more than enough for very brisk road riding, and the handling is superb. I haven't taken it off road yet but I would think that it'll cope with some unspectacular dirt tracks no problem. I'll probably try that later in the summer.

All in all...

After losing the first race by the finest of margins, Chaz Davies romped to his first World Superbike win for Ducati ahead of Jonathan Rea and Leon Haslam while Tom Sykes spectacularly crashed out
Chaz Davies capped his best weekend to date with Ducati by comfortably winning the second World Superbike race at Aragon while Tom Sykes spectacularly crashed out of a top-four spot.
At the circuit which saw him claim his maiden double victory in the class, Davies was never headed after assuming control at the first corner. In the end he coasted home a full four seconds clear of Jonathan Rea, who narrowly held off Leon Haslam for his sixth straight top-two finish.
As the top three staked their respective claims for the championship it was a nightmare end to the weekend for Sykes, who suffered a massive high-side while holding fourth and closing in on Haslam.
The 2013 world champion had started poorly and lost early ground to Rea and the number one Aprilia as they tried in vain to stay...

hi guys heres my my 748/853 track bike nearly finished but it quite useable as it is, it started life as a 748 biposto and i turned it into a track bike, it was fine but then thought id change a few things and as usual it all get out of control.

gtec built engine with titanium rods and 853 pistal pistons,
sps cams
gas flowed heads
lightened and balanced crank

carbon/mag wheels

alloy front and rear sub frame

ohlins fork internals/serviced ohlins shock

carbon under tray, air tubes, battery box, air box, front mud guard, rear chain guard.

brembo master cylinder

renthal chain and sprockets

repainted in yellow with white number boards

ngr slipper clutch

oil cooler fitted

alloy termi's (45-50mm)

916 throttle bodies

hyper pro steering damper

gb moto rear sets

After a lot of elbow grease and pound notes my Superlight is almost there, just a few cosmetic bits to do now.
Big thanks to @Arquebus for all the advice when I first got her much appreciated, now she goes like stink, stops on a sixpence and sounds wonderful
Hope you Likey.

Just received this, the subject line says it all really, some quite remarkable photos. Heavily US orientated.

The 65 Most Perfectly Timed Military Photos You’ll Ever See | The Roosevelts

heres a few pics of my 1198 which i picked up saurday hope you like it.

Not sure whether this thread belongs here, in Other Bikes or the SF section. But a shootout with another make might be of general interest so here goes.

Test rode a KTM 1290 SDR today. KTM are having an open weekend so I thought I'd fill my boots. I rode in on the SF then took the 1290 out along the same route for a direct comparison. I was a bit nervous of doing this after the money I've spent tweaking the SF in case it got shot down. But not a bit of it. I'm happy to say that the Streetfighter more than held its own. And I'm not just saying that, it really did.

My SF is now making very similar power and torque to the 1290 SDR so to get as fair a comparison as possible I rode the KTM in Sport mode (the most aggressive throttle response) with the TC turned off. This engine feels exactly like a 990 that's had a lot more weetabix. You can tell its got the same DNA. All the usual KTM adjectives apply: revvy, loose, urgent, vibey, involving. Just more of all of it. KTMs rev more like...

Hi,

All systems are go with the first consignment from California arriving this morning.

Funnily enough the first enquiry came from Italy for a throttle sensor

Forum Discount for 'Forum Subscribers' is 15% with free 1st Class Recorded delivery as an opening offer as I'm happy to be up and running

I will have the Ebay shop up and running over Easter.

Thanks to all for your support and wishes - and thanks to my first customers on here who's belts are on their way

Stu

Bank Holiday Monday 25th May, UKBEG 12th Emma Radford Memorial Buell & Italian Motorcycle Festival

Ducati owners are once again invited to our main event.

UKBEG’s main event runs from 10.00 am until late afternoon and the admission price for motorcyclists and pillion passengers is £8.00 per adult.

The normal admission price for members of the general public will be: Adult- £12.00, Senior- £12.00, Child (10-15yrs) - £4.00, Under 10's free.

Unfortunately Erik Buell Racing won’t be able to attend this year but we do have the Vincent Owners Club as our special guests.

Location:
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre (LAHC)
East Kirkby
Spilsby
Lincolnshire
PE23 4DE

LAHC web site showing their location plus details of their Bank Holiday Monday event: http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/events/Special-Events/lanc-tank-and-military-machines.htm

Provisional timetable:
11am- Avro Lancaster taxi-run
12.00- M36 Jackson tank destroyer - LIVE TANK FIRING
1.30pm- Avro Lancaster...

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I am now in the first stages of my Ducati track bike build.

Already having some hurdles to leap over as it is a bit of a mix and match, and already running late so going to miss the Donnington Ducati day :-(

But I am not going to let the negatives bother me because....... building bikes is fun!

I just need to remind myself of this when the tricky moments (apply any or all of the following three: time consuming / re-work / expensive) come up

So, what am I up to:

1098 frame to be painted white
848 rear hub / wheel / caliper hanger etc
Suzuki GSXR front end (with the steerer tube extended 1.5cm)

One std Suzuki wheel
One Dymag B quality carbon wheel
9.0 linear springs and heavier oil
Brembo 19x18 master cylinder

1100 Hypermotard engine

Balanced lightened crank (Louigi Moto)
Bottom end build (Rosso Corse)
Heads and dyno (Louigi Moto and CJS)
Lightened primaries and alloy belt wheels (MADSL)
DP Cams
Exhaust TBC......

750 F1 fairing, to be painted Black (Two Wheeled...

Just got a message from my dealer. First bikes arrive 1.4.2015 to Finland. I will be driving my new Mutley next week. Can t wait.
I will tell my first impressions next week.

Finished the web site and it now has all the products I have on my first shipment from California Cycle Works
Depending on customs it should be here within a week.

I welcome any typo checkers as the site doesn't have a spell check and it was late when I finished it, whiskey in hand

Just the Ebay Shop to sort now, I'm sure that won't be straight forward, nothing ever is with Ebay and PayPal :Wideyed:

www.exactUK.com

So it finally arrived. A fitting garage mate for my 1098R Bayliss.
First impression (unridden as yet). By eck its loud, even with road legal cans. Neighbours will love me on my daily commute at 06.15.
Niggles - they cover the whole bike in satin finish carbon, then put gloss carbon on the ends of the pipes. Annoying
Swing arm pivot is set to -4 on arrival, yet handbook says it should be at zero position (yet as per usual ducati manual quality, then shows a pic of the pivot in pos 4 ). Would be grateful if any new owners can chime in with how their's arrives.

Pleased to say I have just bought my first Ducati after years of riding Japanese in line fours. Really impressed with the bike and the way it pulls is amazing. It's got a couple of bits added already, Superleggera graphics, DP rearsets, DP Carbon heel guards, DP Race seat and DP tailtidy. I've got a few plans for it myself, termi / carbon etc but really can't see what else I would want to do with it. Well chuffed to have an Italian bike tucked up in the garage

What do you do when you've spent top money on an immaculate, low mileage, Termi-fitted 1098 SF, then spent more getting it custom mapped and running sweet as a nut? Obviously you furnish Louigi-Moto and CJS performance with £3200 and have them take a pristine engine apart and put it back together again with another remap barely six months later.

So why do it and what's it like?
I knew as soon as I'd bought this bike it was keeper. Its a proper old-school analogue road bike. Plain, simple and ballsy. Cacophonous and charismatic. Every ride is an occasion. They don't make em like this any more and they probably won't again. But clearly it was hamstrung by rotten fuelling, emissions restrictions and a general, mass-production, one-size-fits-all looseness.
I was more than happy with the results from the first re-map and exhaust valve removal:
Remap Completed, Results In: | Ducati Forum
Perfect fuelling and a fatter, crisper, creamy smooth power delivery. But there was definitely more...

I've had a 2 stroke Supermoto itch that I just had to scratch for some time now, so decided to build a KTM 300 Supermoto.

So, in late November 2014 I purchased a donor bike, full Enduro spec and used as intended but tidy enough. The main factor was to buy one that had a solid engine, this had been fully rebuilt, top and bottom end within the last 40 hours, these things will do 300 hours no problem if looked after. Motor was sweet, so started to strip it down. I sold off most of the unwanted off-road parts to go towards the build cost as I was doing it on a budget, how wrong that budget was !

After stripping it, it became apparent that I had neither the time or the skill to rebuild the bike, so I sent it to a friend, who is a well known and highly regarded KTM specialist (KevinYorks on the KTM forum)

I had the ideas and plan and he made it all a reality, the end result is stunning, it's cost a fortune but I'm glad I did what I did in the end

Before and after !!!

It's had...

I'm currently in the second best restaurant in Leuven according to Trip Advisor.
Pick your own cut and weight of steak from the counter. Taste, texture and provenance of each described by the chef. Spanish, French, Belgian, Scottish, English, Irish ... I went for 250g of the Belgian Wit-Blauw cooked medium rare.
And when I requested some wine the Sommelier asked what steak I am having and whether I wanted chilled or room temperature. Room temp of course so a Spanish Tempranillo was duly recommended.
Lovely!

As you may have seen, I picked up an ex-trioptions cup bike recently. I had it out at Donny a couple of weekends ago and had a blast on it... Absolute dream bike

2011 848 Evo
bike has been race prepared and fitted with some amazing performance parts including
Ohlins TTX Rear Shock,
Ohlins Fork Cartridges,
Ohlins Steering Damper,
Sigma Performance Slipper Clutch,
Akrapovic Exhaust Cans,
Lightech Rear Sets,
Evo Tech Brake and Clutch Levers,
Brembo Clubman Race Disks,
Active Quick Action Throttle,
Brembo Carbon Ceramic Race Pads,
GB Racing Engine Case Covers,
Red Samco Silicon Race Hoses,
R&G Under Fairing Crash Bungs
Blueprinted and custom mapped at 138bhp

today I was tucked up in my new garage with the DAS-6 Polishing machine making it a bit prettier. Removing some crappy stickers and giving it a first going over with the polish.
First polish today

Picked up my hyper from “comfysofa” yesterday ..first chance to get on it tonight…pulls like a train and more grunt than a shed load of pigs!..don’t laugh but it reminds me of my first Harley (had what they call a stage 3 done ) it would show any sportbike the way up to about 75mph… wasn’t quite as nimble as the hyper though! Only did about 50 miles on it tonight.. a mixture of sweeping corners and fast straights…wasn’t going balls out but it felt really good and planted in the corners, on the straights didn’t go flat out but had it up to about 120mph, but it’s probably happier (so would my neck muscles be) sitting at 80-100 I’ll hopefully get out on it tomorrow and take it on some really twisty roads I’m expecting it to be a blast :Happy:

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