It's still very much a work in progress, and will look drastically different by next week! The forks on it for this first outing were loaners just to get it rolling, the final front end will be Öhlins-shod Superbike front end. The ABS I plugged the port to the front lines so I can run a direct line from a Brembo master down to a pair of Brembo calipers. It will have a full Akrapovic titanium exhaust with a stainless revere megaphone muffler, along with a Rapid Bike fuel tuner. It will have some additional cool parts on it as well! ;-)
Amazing, what a ridiculous build. I love it! Are... are they carbon wheels?! hahaAll buttoned up and ready for testing round #2 at our track day on Monday!
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Yes, BST cabon wheels! Frame stickers are touchy here, removing them can cause massive problems down the road if the bike is sold and crosses state lines, so even though they're ugly I leave them on. However, I WILL cover them with black tape! Rearsets just came in today, and are going on now. I needed the pegs a lot higher and farther back than any of the production rearsets for the Scrambler are capable of so I'm adapting a Rizoma kit for another bike to make it work, I'll post up pics of that if it works! I am getting the Mupo AB2 racing shock with remote gas reservoir, hopefully that will be here soon.
The class allows twins up to 500cc and singles up to 590cc. It's pretty much dominated by "built" Ninja 300's in the Expert class, closely followed by Supermotos. I thought the low end tourque would help too, but it really doesn't on the track. The engine needs to be kept at 8000 RPM to make power, and then it hits the rev limiter immediately. We're going to try raising the rev limit with the Rapid Bike Evo unit to see if we can extend the powerband a little bit. In stock form as it sits now, a built Ninja 300 will pull away by 10mph on the straight, and it's dead even with a Ninja 300 that just has a slip-on and power commander. The nice thing is with this being a Ducati, if I do need more power it's much easier to get it than it is on a Ninja 300!
That was a "loaner" wheel, 17" Marchesini forged wheel from a 1098R. Yes, ABS works fine with a 17" wheel, the front speed sensor ring mounted on the outside of the brake rotor is the only requirement for ABS to work.
It does not just bolt on, the brake rotor spacing is not correct so it takes either a different rotor or using spacers on the rotor. And that was using 800 Scrambler forks, not the 400 forks. We had to use a different axle also, and I believe we had to use a different wheel spacer, but I didn't record anything required to make it work since that was not the purpose of that effort, it was simply to cobble things together to get it to the track for the first test. Now it has a proper Superbike front end on it, so of course the Superbike wheel setup fits right up with on problem.
I had a 400 as a loan bike for a while... surprisingly rev hungry! Not the same engine character as the 800 at all. Time get it bored out to 500cc then!
