viva_brasil
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This thread is about taking my 999 / 1198S bike and evolving it into my ideal street bike.
My street riding has come down a lot since my track riding has gone up, and I definitely do not want to ride anything in a 'sport' position on the street. Which basically made my 999 / 1198S build a garage ornament.
Part of the inspiration also came from riding a Ducati Scrambler. It's a great bike, I love the position and the style. I wanted to get some of that Scrambler style and feel with the torque and aggression of testastretta generation motors. Also want to be able to ride 2-up and be able to throw slicks on and do some fast laps.
So far I've mounted Scrambler tires and started taking the bike apart so I can add longer throttle cables, build the front end mounting solution, do some reinforcements / updates on the airbox, and paint parts. Aiming to finish it in the next 2-3 weeks.
Parts / specs:
- LSL dirt bars I had lying around
- Pirelli MT60RS tires
- Dirt bar / top triple clamp mounting adapters - I think I found these on E-Bay
- BARK BUSTERS
- Custom 3D printed top triple clamp spacers with 15 degree slope to fit the dirt bar adapters on the sloped OEM triple
- Longer main front brake line from a Multistrada
- Longer throttle cables from a Diavel (seems like this generation Multi, Diavel, and 848/1098/1198 superbike cables all share the same throttle body ends - Multi cables appear to be a bit too long, Diavel should work well)
- Hypermotard front headlight and fairing
- Custom fork and upper triple mount for headlight - adjustable headlight angle and height
- Trimmed / shortened ram air intakes - slash cut
- Side mounted radiator overflow tank
- Side mounted plastic tube on the other side - because symmetry (the tube thing that people put on their adv bikes to carry stuff in)
- Some sort of skid plate - may make my own
All of this on the same 999 frame and 1198S engine / single sided swingarm platform I previously built with custom exhaust, airbox, 1198S traction control, and microtec ECU.
Tires mounted - this was really the first step, had to make sure they would fit or figure out a new wheel / tire solution:
Coolant overflow / reservoir here - a bit overkill on the size and it should ideally be higher than the rad - but it should still work and will match the storage tube on the other side.
These are the 3D printed blocks that match the slope on the OEM top triple clamp and space them sufficiently so the shoulder bolt works - allows the universal dirt bar adapters to work properly on the superbike triple clamp. It's not pretty, with the bars mounted I may do a v2 that more closely follows the contour of the mounts.
Bars mounted and ram air intakes slash cut
Bark buster test fit, fork clamps for headlight lower mount slipped on, tank and airbox pulled to replace the throttle cables
My street riding has come down a lot since my track riding has gone up, and I definitely do not want to ride anything in a 'sport' position on the street. Which basically made my 999 / 1198S build a garage ornament.
Part of the inspiration also came from riding a Ducati Scrambler. It's a great bike, I love the position and the style. I wanted to get some of that Scrambler style and feel with the torque and aggression of testastretta generation motors. Also want to be able to ride 2-up and be able to throw slicks on and do some fast laps.
So far I've mounted Scrambler tires and started taking the bike apart so I can add longer throttle cables, build the front end mounting solution, do some reinforcements / updates on the airbox, and paint parts. Aiming to finish it in the next 2-3 weeks.
Parts / specs:
- LSL dirt bars I had lying around
- Pirelli MT60RS tires
- Dirt bar / top triple clamp mounting adapters - I think I found these on E-Bay
- BARK BUSTERS
- Custom 3D printed top triple clamp spacers with 15 degree slope to fit the dirt bar adapters on the sloped OEM triple
- Longer main front brake line from a Multistrada
- Longer throttle cables from a Diavel (seems like this generation Multi, Diavel, and 848/1098/1198 superbike cables all share the same throttle body ends - Multi cables appear to be a bit too long, Diavel should work well)
- Hypermotard front headlight and fairing
- Custom fork and upper triple mount for headlight - adjustable headlight angle and height
- Trimmed / shortened ram air intakes - slash cut
- Side mounted radiator overflow tank
- Side mounted plastic tube on the other side - because symmetry (the tube thing that people put on their adv bikes to carry stuff in)
- Some sort of skid plate - may make my own
All of this on the same 999 frame and 1198S engine / single sided swingarm platform I previously built with custom exhaust, airbox, 1198S traction control, and microtec ECU.
Tires mounted - this was really the first step, had to make sure they would fit or figure out a new wheel / tire solution:
Coolant overflow / reservoir here - a bit overkill on the size and it should ideally be higher than the rad - but it should still work and will match the storage tube on the other side.
These are the 3D printed blocks that match the slope on the OEM top triple clamp and space them sufficiently so the shoulder bolt works - allows the universal dirt bar adapters to work properly on the superbike triple clamp. It's not pretty, with the bars mounted I may do a v2 that more closely follows the contour of the mounts.
Bars mounted and ram air intakes slash cut
Bark buster test fit, fork clamps for headlight lower mount slipped on, tank and airbox pulled to replace the throttle cables
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