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Hey! I thought about posting an intro in the general section but figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and post it as a project thread. Warning - I tend to ramble about this stuff so this may be a long one...
I just stumbled onto this site a few days ago and decided to sign up. My main interest/aspiration is to build a sporty powered cafe racer, but for now I already have too many projects so I need to finish up one or three of those before I embark on yet another build!
As my username suggests, I'm a bit partial to a certain Italian brand. I've got six of them right now, three of which are project bikes. The one project I have going on right now that fits this site best is probably my 1966 Ducati Monza Jr. I picked it up in a package deal with a '66 250 Monza. (The 250 is going to become a more serious "cafe racer" but it's still in parts gathering mode)
Here's a shot of the 160 in "as bought" condition.
As you can probably tell, 1966 was not a high point of Italian style. This bike was mostly complete but I'm tossing a lot of it. I went through a lot of ideas on what to build with it, but ended up with something along the lines of this:
When that pic was taken I was planning to remove the valance panels from the front fender to match the rear one, but then I decided i liked them there... but what about the rear fender? Time to find a valanced rear fender too.
Soon enough I made a deal with a buddy that included an NOS valanced rear fender, along with a better tail light. I'm not sure I'll be able to use the tail light, but here's how the back end ill look if I can;
I just stumbled onto this site a few days ago and decided to sign up. My main interest/aspiration is to build a sporty powered cafe racer, but for now I already have too many projects so I need to finish up one or three of those before I embark on yet another build!
As my username suggests, I'm a bit partial to a certain Italian brand. I've got six of them right now, three of which are project bikes. The one project I have going on right now that fits this site best is probably my 1966 Ducati Monza Jr. I picked it up in a package deal with a '66 250 Monza. (The 250 is going to become a more serious "cafe racer" but it's still in parts gathering mode)
Here's a shot of the 160 in "as bought" condition.
As you can probably tell, 1966 was not a high point of Italian style. This bike was mostly complete but I'm tossing a lot of it. I went through a lot of ideas on what to build with it, but ended up with something along the lines of this:
When that pic was taken I was planning to remove the valance panels from the front fender to match the rear one, but then I decided i liked them there... but what about the rear fender? Time to find a valanced rear fender too.
Soon enough I made a deal with a buddy that included an NOS valanced rear fender, along with a better tail light. I'm not sure I'll be able to use the tail light, but here's how the back end ill look if I can;