That'll buff right out.
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gone 2002 Caponord-Oyster gray (as faithful as a hound dog)
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The more I learn about people, the more I appreciate rocks.
I'm not a Big fan of the bike but I'd like to see the video to see how bad it really was. The aftermath is pretty bad.
Here's the photo series on the wreck, pretty incredible, this is the teams' fb page.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...7829087&type=3
Originally Posted by cantcode86
Chris
2011 Apreelee-uh RSV4-R APRC
2012 Ducatee 1199 Paneegalay............on the way.
2010 Ducati Streetfighter
2005 Honda Goldwing "sofa on wheels"
Now I actually find the 1199 to be one of the more attractive Ducatis in recent memory. I had been wondering how using the motor as more of a stressed part of the frame than in other bikes using the same approach would turn out in a crash. The rider was likely traveling faster than the average person on the street, but the track also tends to have fewer trees, cars, and guard rails to contend with. If that is how the 1199s look after a put down, Ducati might as well issue a pistol with each one sold so you can put it out of its misery and send it to the glue factory/scrap yard (you get the point).
Well I think he was going more than a little bit faster, he's a racer testing a race bike and said he was going into turn one flat out at Kyalami (south africa), said the front end washed out.
But a monocoque by definition will be more severely damaged with no trellis frame, but any bike with any frame would have been a write off after that crash. Just look at the sequence pics the bike's about 10 ft in the air.
As to a writeoff, well that's what insurance is for, tho I expect it'll be higher because of the construction. you play you got to pay.
Chris
2011 Apreelee-uh RSV4-R APRC
2012 Ducatee 1199 Paneegalay............on the way.
2010 Ducati Streetfighter
2005 Honda Goldwing "sofa on wheels"
My point was actually not to compare a monocoque to a trellis, but this monocoque to other monocoques. I am by no means an engineer, but the bike simply looks fragile compared to say the NR500.
As usual though...it may all be in my head....usually is....
Man those pictures tell a better tail of what happened. The rider looked like the rider made it decent.
I'd still like to see how one takes a less violent crash. Most framed bike would have made it out a little better but still would have been scrap. The sand does it's job well but it does have a tenancy to send bikes in the air. I tucked the front end at Jennings in turn 1 It sent my bike 6' in the air, when it hit the sand. Yes I know, not the same.
When ever we tried to fix a ducati - they most often are an insurance total. Any little crack in the trellis frame causes a full frame replacement and thus a full total. The insurance companies would bring many to my old shop - and others local shops. And many owners bought the salvage and then - welded/fixed the frame and kept the bike
It may be interesting that this monocoque frame may be a value -as a salvage bike if we could source the parts.
A salvage 1199s might be a fun..... winter project....
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