EXTRA-SPECIAL EDITION: CUSTOMIZING THE ICONIC DUCATI MHR MILLE

[weeksy]

https://www.bikeexif.com/ducati-mhr-mille-bcr

[cheb]

I like the bath plug carb tampions.

[Bustaspoke]

I think aircooled Ducati's & trellis frames make for some of the best looking bikes out there,this one's had a lot of work done to it but it's not for me,
however I like the owners quote “Yes, I know it’s history, but I want something unique,” Benjie quotes his client as saying. “It’s my bike, my money. F*ck the purists.”
To my eye's,that Bimota with the aircooled motor we did the other year sets the standard

[KungFooBob]

I think the forks are too long. Off the stand with the rear wheel touching the floor it will look like a cruiser.

[Ditchfinder]

What's with all the welding on the exhaust - is it easier to make one this way rather than bending it?

[dern]

What's with all the welding on the exhaust - is it easier to make one this way rather than bending it?

As I understand it, it's used to form unusual and complex shapes out of pie cuts (slices) of tube where you either can't get preformed bends to suit or you can't bend your own tubes or you just like the look. I think that this looks awful as they've used the technique to create a pretty simple radius and mixed it with a preformed radius and it just looks a mess. I can't understand what they were thinking.

[mangocrazy]

It's a complete mish-mash of angles and shapes. There's no overriding form, it's just had stuff thrown at it in a random fashion. It's abundantly clear that it's been put together by an individual rather than a factory..

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It has the colours and graphics of a Scalextric sidecar

[Mr. Dazzle]

What's with all the welding on the exhaust - is it easier to make one this way rather than bending it?

As I understand it, it's used to form unusual and complex shapes out of pie cuts (slices) of tube where you either can't get preformed bends to suit or you can't bend your own tubes or you just like the look. I think that this looks awful as they've used the technique to create a pretty simple radius and mixed it with a preformed radius and it just looks a mess. I can't understand what they were thinking.

Those sorts of exhausts always look like an arbitrarily difficult welding exam piece to me

[mangocrazy]

What's with all the welding on the exhaust - is it easier to make one this way rather than bending it?

As I understand it, it's used to form unusual and complex shapes out of pie cuts (slices) of tube where you either can't get preformed bends to suit or you can't bend your own tubes or you just like the look. I think that this looks awful as they've used the technique to create a pretty simple radius and mixed it with a preformed radius and it just looks a mess. I can't understand what they were thinking.

Those sorts of exhausts always look like an arbitrarily difficult welding exam piece to me

The other thing that bugs me about this, is that even with the most highly skiiled welding operative, with the very best back-purged kit, every joint will to some (even very small) degree interfere with the gas flow in a way that a mandrel-bent pipe would not. It's form over function for the most part.

[dern]

As I understand it, it's used to form unusual and complex shapes out of pie cuts (slices) of tube where you either can't get preformed bends to suit or you can't bend your own tubes or you just like the look. I think that this looks awful as they've used the technique to create a pretty simple radius and mixed it with a preformed radius and it just looks a mess. I can't understand what they were thinking.

Those sorts of exhausts always look like an arbitrarily difficult welding exam piece to me

The other thing that bugs me about this, is that even with the most highly skiiled welding operative, with the very best back-purged kit, every joint will to some (even very small) degree interfere with the gas flow in a way that a mandrel-bent pipe would not. It's form over function for the most part.

Form over function describes pretty much every ‘special’ posted though.

[mangocrazy]

Those sorts of exhausts always look like an arbitrarily difficult welding exam piece to me

The other thing that bugs me about this, is that even with the most highly skiiled welding operative, with the very best back-purged kit, every joint will to some (even very small) degree interfere with the gas flow in a way that a mandrel-bent pipe would not. It's form over function for the most part.

Form over function describes pretty much every ‘special’ posted though.

I'd refer sir to the Bimota special with the air-cooled Ducati engine posted earlier in this thread as a perfect example of form and function combining seamlessly. I'd agree that most specials are form over function, but not all.

[Taipan]

Hideous!