I will surprise you when it gets here. Another Ducati but this one from Japan coming by ship. ETA is 12 June but then customs clearance and I will have to go pick it up with my trailer. I am on hold at the moment for work on the old Ducati Darmah SSD900 as my workshop has become so messy I need to clean it up. I am currently making a hardwood bench to sit my Drill press on. At the same time I just finished making a custom CF bracket to mount a oil catch can in my car. But then ended up rerouting the heater hoses to clean up the engine bay. I then noticed something a little untidy in the inlet tract so have to fix that but needed a M20 x1.5mm tap. That arrived today so hopefully finnish that tomorrow and then back to the wood bench and tidying up. The I can start to reassemble the SSD. Then back onto the 1199S. Somewhere have to find time to get the CF fuel tank for the 1199S to the painter. Never enough time in the day. An essential for the workshop some JD.
I attached a photo of two aluminium tubes. NB the weight of the tubes is 122.4 grams. These are called bevel towers on the very old 1970's to 80's Ducati. I got the aluminium on ebay for $15 AUD and a freiend turned down the outer diameter and cut to length on his lathe. It saves 200 grams from the OEM steel ones.
The last photo shows a aluminium clutch basket from Germany that saves 498 grams over the OEM steel one.
As usual Howard your front end is goine to look very cool. Nice Work.
