Ducati Monster M900 restoration project
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things didn’t go well with the painting… the seat cowl had rattle can paint on it by the look of it... and it reacted badly to the base coat. going to have to do it all again. the other parts came out well though… two coats of clear on the mudguard and fairing, one coat on the tank before I put the decals on and then hit it with one and a half coats…
Painting is all finished and I am happy with the results... I love the way 2k just comes out with a gloss from the gun ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgFTyJd4fQs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgFTyJd4fQs
One of the few fabrication jobs I have done on this bike… I have decided to fit an ignitech ignition… Most people seem to fit them next to a smaller battery, or move the coils over, but I wanted to keep the unit away from the heat of the engine… So I made a bracket to fit it under the LH side panel. it just fits nicely…
well apart from a few snagging jobs, and replacing the rear brake hose which is too long… its finished. I need to tweak the ignitech unit and enable one of the output channels to limit the revs to 2500 when the stand is down… When I was 19 a good mate rode away from the pub with the stand down… just up the road he came off, and the accident resulted in him losing an arm… those things stay with you…
Need to find another project now! if anyone in the UK has anything... let me know!
Need to find another project now! if anyone in the UK has anything... let me know!
Rob_F said:
That looks absolutely sensational! Love it. Are you going to keep it or move it on to fund the next one?
I am going to keep this one... I was reflecting the other day about a day in 1994 when I went to work on My Laverda Jota...it was such a nice day I rode past work and went to Slater Brothers the Laverda importers at Collington. When I got there I parked next to a red 900 Monster... It was the first time I had seen one in the flesh... I was looking around it when Richard Slater came out with the keys and said take it for a spin! I was really impressed, much lighter and agile than the Jota... I have always wanted one since then!
buzzer said:
I am going to keep this one... I was reflecting the other day about a day in 1994 when I went to work on My Laverda Jota...it was such a nice day I rode past work and went to Slater Brothers the Laverda importers at Collington. When I got there I parked next to a red 900 Monster... It was the first time I had seen one in the flesh... I was looking around it when Richard Slater came out with the keys and said take it for a spin! I was really impressed, much lighter and agile than the Jota... I have always wanted one since then!
Great story, even better! Enjoy the bike :-)
conkerman, sent you a PM....
I was looking at the picture of the bike the other day and thought” those silencers are too long”… and its too quiet… Well I had the original silencers which were quite marked, So I looked at shortening them and removing part of the baffle… not a bad job… by removing the bracket I was able to slide the sleeve down enough to remove the end with a cutting disc. I then cut 100mm off the inner and sleeve (both ends to preserve the stampings) , and welded it all back up again. One thing I learned many years ago when welding exhausts is to clean the carbon off the inside… or it leaches through the weld and the joint cracks! They polish up really well…you just have to remove the original finish with a DA sander with some 120 grit, followed by some 400, then polish…
I was looking at the picture of the bike the other day and thought” those silencers are too long”… and its too quiet… Well I had the original silencers which were quite marked, So I looked at shortening them and removing part of the baffle… not a bad job… by removing the bracket I was able to slide the sleeve down enough to remove the end with a cutting disc. I then cut 100mm off the inner and sleeve (both ends to preserve the stampings) , and welded it all back up again. One thing I learned many years ago when welding exhausts is to clean the carbon off the inside… or it leaches through the weld and the joint cracks! They polish up really well…you just have to remove the original finish with a DA sander with some 120 grit, followed by some 400, then polish…
Krikkit said:
Looks absolutely belting that buzzer, another fantastic job!
For the sidestand issue - the modern ones use the neutral and sidestand switches together and cut out if the stand is down and in gear, could that be more do-able?
Its a good way of doing it... my Harley has it. I did try that on another build in the past... but the pit lane function in the software on the ignition is an easy way to do it...For the sidestand issue - the modern ones use the neutral and sidestand switches together and cut out if the stand is down and in gear, could that be more do-able?
buzzer said:
Its a good way of doing it... my Harley has it. I did try that on another build in the past... but the pit lane function in the software on the ignition is an easy way to do it...
Did the cans on my ST2 and ST4S, stripped, cored and rebuilt, fruity and nicely e marked and cost pretty much sod all.
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