Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 8:21 am
It's been said before, but modern engines with all their gubbins really should be modestly hiding behind fairings....
The exhausts are a mess too.
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Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
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Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 8:26 am
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 9:05 am
Opps, looks like timmy the apprentice put the engine in before all the parts had come back from the sand blaster.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 9:26 am
It's different and perhaps given time one may come to love this in the resigned manner one would adopt for a bastard ginger haired step child.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 9:47 am
Be nice when it's finished.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 11:15 am
Hideous!
Unless you remove the fairing, then I'd like it.
Unless you remove the fairing, then I'd like it.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 12:35 pm
That's a definite no.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 1:36 pm
No Sir, I don't like it.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 1:40 pm
It's one loose stone being flung up away from being a hand grenade.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Wed May 13, 2026 7:16 pm
Yup, it's the fairing that kills it. Take that off and you have a reasonable starting point.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Sun May 17, 2026 1:45 pm
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Mon May 18, 2026 1:04 pm
Bare timing belts out in the breeze?
That's not gonna end well.
That's not gonna end well.
Re: Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom
Posted: Mon May 18, 2026 2:09 pm
I'm normally a sucker for black and gold, but not quite this time