Quick and dirty

Okay, I havent had the time to do some proper foto shooting, but to get an idea of the bike how it is right now, this one is made with my iphone..(I know, quality sucks bigtime..)
Ill try to post some better photos lateron.

The new seat

The new seat arrived yesterday. It really is a nice piece of work!
Thanks Ramon! A really well done job!
I really like the classic style of the off-white in combination with the black tank.
Still have to paint the rear off the bike (is now blue-ish)

Michiel also had some rear air-shocks laying around. We tried them on the duc.
I think they fit the bike. Haven't had the chance of takin it for a nice ride, so im not sure how they react. Bit they look very ok!






Michiel also took the virago for a last ride befor we started takin it apart for the paint job. How cool is this bike. :-D

some new stuff

I removed the brackets of the headlight michiel gave me. Now I working on a minimalistic bracket made from little pieces of rod and some rings. I thing It looks really nice already. Might be slightly too fragile, but we will see how it holds.



Bought an old cx custom tank, (looks quite nice actually). I'm thinkin of using the rear/back of the tank, and use the round shape for back of the seat of the ducati.
Something like this..






Also fixed the inner helmet of the welding mask that michiel broke :-D
Used some parts of an old construction helmet.

Rippin' of the ugly parts

Today I found some time working on the Duc.

I started with takin of the front..
Dont think I like the M-steering-bar. Some clipons would look better..still working on that.

The tank looks really cool without all the bodywork. I'm consider keeping this one.
But we'll see how things work out.

Pantah caferacer

Found some examples of some nicely cafe'ed ducati pantah's
I really like the uncovered distribution belts..

check www.clubcaferacer.com/t2-mon-pantah-750

Gettin' it running

Before I start rippin of all the ugly parts, I fist like to have it running properly.
Yesterday I tried to get it started. After a few attempts it only ran on one cilinder.

Adjustments to the carburatteur didnt make any difference.
It didnt take long to find out what the problem really was :-D




The idling jet was totally blocked with dirt..
It was clear that id had some good cleaning up to do.

After two cans of break cleaner and putting it back together, it now runs very nice.
Still got some synchronisation to do. :-D

The start

Ok so this is what i bought:





Its a Ducati Pantah/ Cagiva Allazura from '85. Ive always liked the sound of the two cilinder machines. And the pantah has a really nice frame too. The ideal combination for a caferacer coversion.

There are some nice examples of really cool cafe's on the web.
This one in perticular..



Of course the idea is not to make an copy of this bike.
Well see how things work out.