Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 999 / 749 > Durbahn 999

[chrisw]

Has anyone read the article in PB Mag about the Durbahn 999 V2 project. What a piece of engineering. What about the cable conversion for the clutch? He sells it as a kit for $499 (about £286). Is it worth it?

Here's some piccies of the kit off the web site

www.durbahn.de

[chrisw]

And another

[Real McCoy]

Why is cable better , most folk with cable clutches want to convert to hydraulic

[Jools]

Am I the only person in the world to think that Durbahn's project is cack?

[little britain mode on] Don' like i' [little britain mode off]

[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"

[Felix]

You've got to admire the guy for his ingenuity and skills, but you've got to ask what's the point?

[Ducnow]

I really admire and love that project.

As for the cable clutch......

[Jools]

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

[khushy]

John Reynolds (on a Redbull Ducati) used to use a cable operated clucth - he said it gave him more feel and control.

He is bloody ace so there must be something in it!!!

khushy

[Chris Wood]

Surely he deserves credit for just doing it and the thought that he is applying to the process.

People like him are innovators and influence the mass produced bikes of the future don't they?