Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Who does this Reve Red Bull bike belong to?

[final_edition]

As above, is it genuine?
Anyone from the club, maybe someone can shed some more light on it?
How comes the original engines get removed from bikes like this?
I know, too many Q's this time of night

Opps, forgot the link!
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/97058.htm

[final_edition]

Find link above now.

[Jasper]

A few questions:

Road rearsets?
Showa Forks?

Even though it's on slicks,i find it hard to believe it's the actual race bike,IMHO.Happy to be proved of course.

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I know that when Moto Cinelli finished trading the 996SPS that Ian Simpson finished second in the production TT was still owned by Hoss Elm-it then appeared in dealership Italsport in Bury owned by Roy Armstrong who I believe sold it to one of his customers-so it maybe worth speaking to Roy to see if he knows what happened to the bike from there-he may even have chassis nos etc

[Jasper]

In Fact,the more i look:

Headlights,sidestand,tails lights??On a racebike??Nah.I'm not convinced.

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Originally Posted by Jasper

In Fact,the more i look:

Headlights,sidestand,tails lights??On a racebike??Nah.I'm not convinced.

Original bike was a std 996SPS as it was raced in production TT

[keefer]

Authentic race bike my arse

[skidlids]

Every chance it is genuine, although I do wonder about the replacement engine being the one used by JR to win BSB and then detuned to be put into this bike.
Having run a couple of bikes at the TT and having my 2003 Prody 600 still in my garage and the bike we used in 2002 which we borrowed from Senna3 and was Weeksys old Fireblade, I know you don't need anything to special for the prody, a fast rider, sorted suspension and a decent tyre budget are the main requirements.
Somewhere out there is a Ex John McGuinness 999R ridden under Monster mob colours at the 2003 TT, Bike was very standard looking apart from the paint job. Sadly it did'nt get a decent result due to its poor fuel range and by the time McGuinness had pushed it to the pits from Governors Bridge at the end of the 2nd lap he was totally kknackered.
So don't expect to much from a prody class bike, even a Superstock bike has a higher spec

[Jasper]

Even though it was a proddy bike,and it was being returned to stock trim,you would have thought it would have had rearsets,mag wheels,carbon airtubes(not sure,but those wheels aren't standard for a 1997 SPS anyway).Of course you may no be able to change all that.It just looks like a very nice bike in Red Bull colours to me.

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by Jasper

.It just looks like a very nice bike in Red Bull colours to me.

And that is basically what a TT prody bike is a standard well preped bike with a paint job, a decent rear shock and reworked fork internals, which is what McGuinness's 2003 Monster Mob 999R was.

No Carbon air tubes allowed in proddy class as its classed as a modification to the induction system which isn't allowed
No mag wheels in proddy class, your not even ment to use rearsets, just risers and then you are tied to limits backward and upwards on location.

Jamie Whitam used standard pegs on his Ducati when he raced in WSB and even won on it on one occassion