ENGINEERING PORN: CHRIS COSENTINO’S DUCATI HYPERMONO

[Mr. Dazzle]

It has less effect on chain tension if they're close together, which in turn effects how the bike behaves on and off the throttle, looking at it the chain run is pretty awful

Seems to have an idler wheel in the drive chain, which is fairly odd - for a motorbike anyway!

[ChrisW]

It has less effect on chain tension if they're close together, which in turn effects how the bike behaves on and off the throttle, looking at it the chain run is pretty awful

Seems to have an idler wheel in the drive chain, which is fairly odd - for a motorbike anyway!

Looks like there's two - can just about make out a lower one too.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It has less effect on chain tension if they're close together, which in turn effects how the bike behaves on and off the throttle, looking at it the chain run is pretty awful

Seems to have an idler wheel in the drive chain, which is fairly odd - for a motorbike anyway!

My Husqvarna 610 had a nylon bush that did this job, it was fucking hopeless and just made tensioning the chain a pain, I wasn't sad when it fell off.

[Bigyin]

It's nicely made, weird that he credits Tony Foale as inspiration for what is clearly a Hossack front end, I don't remember Tony ever designing a bike with that type of front suspension.

I had to look up as i thought the Foale design was similar to the Tesi and Vyrus which followed later. I couldnt place where i had seen it before till you mentioned Hossack

[Bigyin]

Get lost


For an hour, reading:
https://motochassis.com/Articles/Steer/STEER.htm
And more

Interesting, never seen that before

[Mr Moofo]

Can I go against the heard and say, whilst it might be great engineering, I hate it!

[porter_jamie]

Very clever man, but why aren't the swingarm pivot/sprocket closer together.
If I were designing from scratch like that, then that would be on my list.

Why would it need to be?

It has less effect on chain tension if they're close together, which in turn effects how the bike behaves on and off the throttle, looking at it the chain run is pretty awful

as mentioned above he has idler wheels on the top and bottom runs, so he can tune the pro/anti squat independently of sprocket to swingarm pivot position. He previous ones had this too. the cases are billet, insane amount of work gone into the engine. be good to see what power and weight it ends up with.