Wee Monster Goes Desmosedici

The other week, Peter from Oronero dropped off a set of Desmosedici bodywork he'd made for the Wee Monster. Thus far, I have gone the nekkid route... but would like to visit the podium again. It's been a while since I got any trophies. We'll see if the extra weight is worth the reduced drag.

While I wait for the rings to arrive from Italy, I started on my long list of other things for the bike. Fitting bodywork is a bit tricky with only 1 pair of hands. Especially on a bike that has never had a fairing and has no fairing mounts.

Wooden blocks, cable ties, duct-tape, straps, swearing, cussing and a whole lot of patience later and it was done. The screen is a off an old 748 fairing I had knocking about. Had to cut it a bit and makeup some ally brackets to get it to fit... but turned out okay.

She's looking pretty sweet. Thank you very much Peter!

Road Trip

Busy day yesterday... 350 mile round-trip through snowstorms... last stop was my mate Don's workshop. Perfect finish to the day having a beer, chatting bikes and reliving war stories from our days racing 'Supertwins' nearly 10 years ago :-)

First stop... Made in Italy Motorcycles to oogle over a whole lot of rare and exotic Italian porn and to chat to owner John about some racing ideas...

Manx weapon?

 

Belissimo!

 Something more modern.

Super-exotic, rare and expensive.

 Just love these old Supersports.

Poise of a race machine.

Just too much to take in... including a zero miles 996R.

Next stop: pickup a low mileage engine for the Big Betty (ManxGP Senior bike). Then down to Don's in London to drop it off. She'll be up and running soon.