My 583, so near to completion!
 

As Donington was snowed off, we've had some more fiddling time and took her up to Langar airfield for the first proper run today :) She's looking great with the Aprilia fairings adjusted to suit, just a bit more set-up to do, a few stickers and straighten those wheels to do (not that you can feel they're bent, strangely!) :) I love how she sounds and feels, just want to try it round some corners now!

Looking very nice Lucy:cool: - and loads better, than when that wicked Ali had her:lol:

Looking forwards to meeting you & Tony eventually

C:)

Thanks :) Be nice to finally get together, see who's hiding behind this computer screen :D

very nice whats up with ducati red, only joking. what the run down of the work you done to it then or is it top secret

its too common!:lol::lol::lol:, says she with 2 'bi-coloured' race monsters in the garage & a tri-colour road monster too! (but it is HIS! :lol: )


:devil: I'm too big to hide behind this screen!:o

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You know, bit of polishing here, lightening and balancing there.... ;)

That fairing looks great on there. Way better than PTB's updated SSie in fact... "Much" work involved to make it fit?

Darren

Errr nope, tiny bit cut off bottom rear of each side and 2 holes drilled to mount to SS frame, surprised how well it fits TBH !
The hardest but was altering the ricambi weiss bellypan to fit, if it wasn't for racing it wouldn't have been needed but even so that only took half an hour :)

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She looks beautiful, but don't you forget she's a dirty little strumpet that needs a good hiding to get moving! Hope the new heart is beating soundly.:D


Yeah, but no, but yeah, but everyone knows that it's like results that count! :ninja:

do you know what bhp coming out of it yet mines been run on the dino in feb to to have the jets set right

How does he know how much power something is making??? :burn:

Got to agree... that is loverly :)

that looks really nice guys........good work by you and tony...

Watch that exhaust overhanging the rear wheel - it'll fail scrutineering!

Looks gorgeous though, very well done. Better get my finger out and do something with Triple1 now I suppose!

i doubt that.....mine extended beyond the rear unit by at least another 5 inches and it never failed............................

Thanks guys, I'm really pleased with how it looks :)

Ali...I'll do my best to give her a good spanking :devil:

Dominic...yeah, I know the bhp ;) Although set-up's not quite right yet, she's a complete b*tch when she's cold and not fuelling great below 5K revs, so might have to sacrifice a bhp or two off the top end to fix it.

Oooh, while you lot are here, which race style fuel filler caps fit them? I can't find any actually listed for a 600SS, but I assume they'll have a standard fitting the same as another bike?

Yep filler cap for 748/916/996 will fit

All/any Ducati ones will fit, with the obvious exception of the 999/749/MultiStuker variant. Mine was for a 916/748 from here:

http://www.moto2.co.uk/acatalog/Fuel_Cap.html

True, I got warned about it (it only just touched out first!) but having changed the gearing the back wheel moved out slightly so it was ok after that. We then had the can cut down slightly, so all was well in the end.

You might just want to be aware of it though, as somebody might put in a protest if you finish in front of them... :D

It's marginal as to whether it's out further than the back wheel. If it is I'll just have to adjust the wheel back a bit I guess!

Thanks Skids and Antonye, that's the next 'to buy' item on my list :)

This is IMHO essential. A well fuelled bike with a chunk of midrange will serve much better than a peaky nightmare. Most of the podium finishes last year went this router rather than top bhp.

The key issue is having confidence to roll the throttle on as early in the corner as poss. The worse the fuelling, the longer your head will tell you to leave it, the less drive you get out of the corner, the further behind you are at the next corner, the more you try to out-brake, the more time you spend in the kitty-litter!:o

Cheers,

Ali

Ali is bang on there. Midrange power is all - certainly it was in Minitwins. He/she who is fastest out of the corner is usually the fastest down the straight.

Nice bike Lucy - that fairing looks good.

Absolutely. Even though they've got bugger all hp, it still puts you off when it comes in all at once at random intervals!


Thanks, just hope it performs as well as it looks :)

I have a recipe book of ready-made excuses that I can lend you. ;)

I'll give you a call for it around March time :lol:

Make that 2 copies please altho I only need one, I'm old and crap :)

I'm even older! :puzzled:

I'll post it in pdf format for yuz both. ;)

I've just noticed that you're running a Micron end can. I'd get a spare if I were you or a better pipe like a Renegade. I've had two Micron Zeta race cans fail on my SV - they have an inherent flaw in them imo. The rubber gaskets or seals pop out, to be shortly followed by the innards.

When I talked to Micron about it they said that the cans weren't designed for race use (Go figure! Despite them being sold as that!) and we're able to cope with v-twins being revved hard all the time. They replaced the cans in the end but, I since went the Renegade route - support was much better, you get a racer discount if you're nice to Jorge the head man and the pipes are made from Titanium...nice n light.

I will never use Micron again.

[Edited on 3-1-2006 by twpd]

Thanks for the heads up. Got a spare Micron sat here as well, so at least we'll have a replacement should the first spew it's guts :)

looking great Lucie :)