| Guys, just a quick update on my situation, if you are interested:
My local Ducati people took the cylinder's head off and confirmed that there is a bent valve and a damaged piston. They also told me what caused this was a failure of the rocker and not the loose belts (also confirmed by Ducati factory prototype dept).
I called Ducati factory prototype dept. and explained to them what happened. They said: bring our baby home and we will fix her...free of charge!
Since on my bike there are components that never went into production on the 999 model, they are interested in analysing all these parts and in understanding what went wrong. By the way, they had also left a data logger on my bike (which I did not know about) and they will analyse all my ****-ups on computer now!
I then told them my next prototype will be Desmo16 and they told me to wait until 2006. We'll see...
Ciao and safe riding to everybody.
Mario |