Opening the bike for the first time

[webmaster0014]

so very excited.

Anyways, I've opened up all my body parts,intending to replace them with sharkskinz, plus a little bit of the auxiliaries for the first time, and am very afraid if I cant put the bike back. The bike is in my living room right now, and if I fail it would end up as another ornament.

Just feeling tipsy from the beer, a little attention deficit going on, so I want to share, that's all.





I'm a valve engineer by profession, and have opened up and repaired valves for customers in various sizes, pressure ratings, and severity, but this tops all those challenges. This is the first time I worked personally on my own automobile, so it's kind of special. Always paranoid if anything would fall off as a result of my incompetence or whatnot.

[Myguel A nti Lâches]

Are you turning her into a track bike? You should probably pick up a shop manual, or you can get a good breakdown here:

http://www.ducatiomaha.com/products.asp Just click on your model under the correct year.

Looks like a good potential showroom in there, nice!

[smartixoxo]

Not too sure I want it to be a full track bike, but I did order some race fairing as well, just in-case if the bug bites.

Downloaded a shop manual a while back, pretty useful and it certainly helped prevent some broken tabs.

As for other body parts (front fairing, side panels & belly pan), I cant see how going for carbon would save much weight as they already feel relatively light in the first place. The headlights and locking mechanism in the tail section is quite heavy though.