It looks like the ohlins rear shock was indeed a popular upgrade on the strada. I seen it many times on the strada,when i bought mine it has an ohlins as well. Henk!!!
Its strange now reading posts like this , I had a strada new in 94 and changed my rivets almost straight away for stainless button heads as the original rivets kept falling out! I'll be amazed if someone has the full set 25 yrs later . Haha , enjoying the thread .
You can still have those rivets. Not from ducati but from suzuki or HD can't remember what it was. Do a search here on the forum it has been said here by a member. Henk!!!
Great thread, I'm really enjoying it! I brought a 94 Strada in 1998 and the fairing screen was also attached to the nose cone fairing using the same type of rivets that join the side fairing halves. I suspect this is how the early 916's originally came from the factory.
I believe all 94 strada’s came as you described mike but was changed as the rivets had a habit of falling out. I don’t think any Strada owners I have spoken to still have the original rivets. The original owner of my bike informed me he lost a few on the way home from the dealer when he picked the bike up As well as the gear leaver falling off at the first roundabout and some of the lights not working. it’s an early 90’s Ducati nobody expected them to finish putting the bike together at the factory did they?
I have done some work on mine and also owned a Moto Guzzi Califronia that had been in the garden for over ten years. When I brought it back from the dead I tried to keep what ever I had as standard even the paint, if it cleaned up okay. I fitted brand new Konis as the original shocks were not that good. I also would keep with your present shock. I personally would prefer to keep your bike with some of its original colours. Its up to you though which way you go though of course. Liam.
I would have loved to save some of the original paint but I want the bike to look like it’s just come out of the showroom in 94. so unfortunately the only panel that can be saved is the tail section. The previous owner lived down a farm road so all the leading edges of the fairings have essentially been sand blasted and the tank has some pretty big gouges and my nose cone needs repaired so it’s not possible to save any of the original paint. It’s the main reason I got the bike so cheap
Great thread Liam, I too have a 94 strada I purchased last year to keep a yellow 748 company. It’s a uite an original bike but just need the minting up like yourself and returning to original spec. Handy with the spanner’s, family in car salvage trade and bodyshop business so looking forwards to it. We lost the mother in law over Christmas so the 2 weeks off wasn’t the start of the strip down as planned. Glad to see what I can expect to come. Dreading the swinging arm removal and expecting the same pain as yourself
Ok time to revive this thread as the bike heads out to the paint shop on Monday . Bolts are away to the zinc plater and I have collected all the parts i needed. I seek your infinite wisdom for the original paint code for the frame and fairings I know cajiva used a different red on the early bikes but I can’t find a code for it. I believe the bronze for the frame is all the same. anyway how’s everyone been
Fairing code is PPG 473.101 (Rosso Anniversario). Frame is PPG 339.7017 for the early bronze, I believe. Good thread here: https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/paint-code.51039/ This is also handy (Beige Met Opaco):
From what I have read so far I thought ppg 473.101 was the colour for 2001 and up Ducati’s or am I wrong? or is it the same as the 94 bikes?. My brother has a 97 916 and ours are different colours mine has a more orange look
This should be good ! always fancied doing up a Ducati but I can never seem to find them for sensible money considering what needs doing to them Subbed
I was lucky enough to grab this one before the prices stared to go mad. it was only listed on FB marketplace and he’d had little interest so I got a good deal
⁸ The early bikes seem to have a darker, almost blood red. Was it called Rosso Corsa? Code still shows 473.101. I could be wrong, but I don't think they're painted. Pretty sure the gold is the actual colour of the magnesium alloy.
I dropped the parts off yesterday and my painter has a paint camera so he is going to go by that. He recons the paint on the tail unit is still very good and ideal to match from
The gold color on magnesium wheels is not the color off the magnesium itself. It is the color off the treatment done on the magnesium,zinc chromate. Henk!!!
