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Originally posted by andyb With a hydraulic clutch you can be a bit more ruthless with the routing. a cable has to run a decent path........which is difficult on a ducati....so i think cac, whats the point, and for once agree with jools!....."yeah i know" |
BAH!!! There goes my 100% record of ****ing off andyb
Seriously though, the PB article praises Durbahn to the skys for his near obsessive attention to detail and weight reduction, but a good bike is not neccesarily the very, very lightest one and it looks impossibly fragile to me.
The obsession with mass centralisation moves the radiator and the fuel cell to the sides of the bike, so on the right hand side you have a vast radiator underneath those hideous "shark gills" on the left hand side you have a fuel cell fabricated from thin aluminium sheet all the way down the side of the engine. Both the rad and the fuel cell are covered with "wafer thin" carbon body work. All of which means that if you ever lowsided it you'd probably be sliding down the road in a shower of carbon shards and coolant or carbon shards and flaming petrol.
Oh and the close up of the arse end at the front of the mag looks as rough as a badgers arse end