Just a couple of pics of my Panigale with the Ducati Plastic Race Fairing Kit fitted. I have the number plate on as I intend to ride it occasionally on the road in daylight hours only, made up a bracket and only 2 bolts to remove. Design may not be to everyones taste but quality of paint job is superb. Big thanks to Bikepaints in Cupar for a fantastic job, my photography skills do not do it justice.
Thanks for finding that funny :Happy: but I meant the 'Red' of the Audi blended into the 'Red' of the Ducati so the Crap background was the fact that photo-genically it was wrong..................................................................................................................................................................................................... nope, who am I trying to kid - the cars Crap
Great paint job, dig the colour scheme. I'm got my race fairings last week, about to fit them before the bike get shipped to Mugello. How long did they take you to fit? Any tips would be great as well. I contemplated getting a race rear subframe for the fairings and swapping the rear. http://www.motoholders.com/rear-frame-aluminium-ducati-1199-r-panigale-racing.html
Thanks, The fairings took around 3hrs to fit due to this being the first time I have stripped the Panigale. Next time it will probably take 1hr. Tail piece, upper and lower side fairings straight forward enough. Difficult part for me was removing the inserts from the top fairing, the pieces that line the top inside left and right. They need to be slid forward and lifted at the same time, all a bit fiddly and would be easy to break. The nose fairing itself only had 3 bolts one at each side and one underneath plus the mirrors holding it to the clock/fairing bracket. There is also a push in / pull out rubber fitting at the nose of the fairing that is quite tight and needs a bit of effort to pull out. Its right behind the peak of the nose. Try to look on the web and try to find a picture of the inserts I mention above, it will help you see what you need to do. Mine were carbon and very rigid, this added to the problem, perhaps plastic ones will be easier due to the flexibility but I don't know for sure. Fit the screen to the top fairing before fitting to bike as the bottom screws will be difficult once it's on the bike. I thought about the subframe as well but didn't at this stage. Did you get the Ducati kit ? if so you will have blanking plugs for the electrics, I had some left over due to being unable to find a hole to push them into I assume that different models have different connections (LED v non LED) therefore thats why I have extras...I hope. The upside of the Ducati kit is its complete and fits perfect the downside is you retain all the gubbings underneath, i.e. the plastic infills etc where an aftermarket fairing would allow you to discard a lot of this stuff and would be easier to remove / replace at track. UPDATE: There are 2 connector blocks going into the headlight (ish), I thought both were for the lamps but they were not - 1 was for the air sensor which if left disconnected (as I did) leads to an engine fault on dash. Removal & replacement of fairings for 2nd time to remedy fault took about an hour and a half. Regards Davy
Can strip my 916 of bodywork, tank and seat unit in 10mins. Bleeding 1198 takes 40mins. Call this progress?
