Hi there, I'm from the USA, actually, the Deep South, that is, near San Diego. I don't know if you'll think that funny. You would have to know some USA geography but if you do, it's kind of funny, though I know I won't be getting my own TV show. Confession: I have no Ducati. At this time, I don't aspire to own one. I do need help. (Hey!) I do recognize the appeal of the Ducati motorcycle, so I hope you can forgive me for I own several BMW airheads. The help I need is in regards to interchangeability of parts of modern Ducati forks. I am building a cafe racer from the frame up and have purchased a Ducati Sport fork. It turns out that I need a longer fork so I looked into the Multi Strada fork. I want to use the hub (spoked wheel) from the Sport fork. Does anyone here know if parts can be mixed or if there is a specific model of fork which will take the sport hub? I asked at my local Ducati dealer and the parts guy didn't seem to know the interchangeability between forks. It looked like it would take him an inordinately long time to figure it out from parts books. Also of note: I read Bike and when available, Visor Down so I understand your language. I appreciate any help given. Peace, Chuey
Alot of parts are inter changeable and whats not interchangeable can always be machined to fit. Stick to the forums for the anwers is your best bet. ducati.ms is a good forum for more techinal stuff... This lot just prefer to polish and talk about tax disc locations (JOKING) :biggrin:
Morning Chuey, 'Near San Diego'? Deep South?..... Red neck Mexicans....tenga un día bueno y'all :wink: As Mr C says, if the yoke (triple trees?) fits the forks, I would guess it's just a case of finding/machining a wheel spacer to align the wheel correctly. Good luck and post some pictures. I like to see cafe racer conversions, some look amazing, some not quite so good.
Hi Chuey you wouldn't have long brown hair by any chance:biggrin: (Chewbacca- star wars) Nah oh well If you have a digital caliper(vernier) you could give us some numbers(sizes) of what you have so far. the front spindle on my Multi is stepped so that the small aluminium nut on one side draws the spindle tight to the fork leg and traps the wheel and then the other leg clamps to the spindle, the width governed by the yokes. I'll get some sizes off mine...after the rain:wink:
Wow! I figured out how to post pictures - a big step for me. The first pic is a side view of my current Cafe Racer, hopefully lending some cred to my request for "forking information" and the second pic was taken the same day by my friend Chris who owned the Ducati in the first picture. The pictures were taken on Palomar Mountain, which is sometimes mentioned in motorcycle magazines as a premium riding spot. I don't go there on Saturdays or Sundays because that's when all the knee draggers and wannabees are out. I'm not in that league. Chuey
Loads of knee draggers on here mate , but that's mostly down to the arthritis and other old age ailments
Now to get thread back on track could you provide details as to which Ducati sport you refer to? I am guessing sport classic as spoke wheels. Another question which multistrada forks you want to use, old style ugly multi or new style still ugly but less so? If older style also hypermotard forks should fit if you stuck. Finally will you use top and bottom yoke from multistrada with forks or have a custom one made up? That one again not that important just interested as you will probably end up having to have to make custom spacers anyhow. All that info is needed so we know which spindle size is used for wheel. Not that much issue as all you will need to do to match size is change wheel bearings and sleeve in between bearings. But we could tell you swap from what to what.
Well done all! We come across as being incredibly nice and helpful, even if I personally can contribute nothing of any use whatsoever.
Hello Chuey, I fitted Multistrada 1000 forks to my 907 and used a 996 wheel(late 3 spoke brembo). I had to file 2mm off the speedo drive to centre the wheel and shim out the calipers by 1mm. You cant run std 65mm 4 pot calipers with a Sport Classic wheel, you have to use the thinner Sport calipers. Look at S/SSie forks ,they are about 30mm longer than Sport Classic/Monster/ST. legs.
Ok, thanks for the answers regarding the forks. What I have is the fork legs and triple trees, or yokes, and the whole front wheel, brake discs and calipers and axle. My plan is to build up an 18 inch rim to the hub I have. At this point, I'm constructing a frame for this bike and will try to obtain a head tube from a wrecked Ducati of the appropriate configuration. I understand that the greater population of Ducati owners is working hard on supplying crashed frames for me to cull. The variables I am aware of are: Axle diameter and brake mount configuration I understand that some of the bottom pieces, the ones to which the brake calipers are attached, are different. A Ducati parts man told me it is very hard to change those bottom pieces. In the morning, I'll go out and measure the fork and axle so if anyone who tries to help needs that info, it is here. I'll also measure how long the fork needs to be. I was thinking that the Multi Strada fork would be a little longer but I could move it up in the yokes. Thanks again. Chuey
Fork bottoms (think callipers attach to) is not hard to change as such it just requires full strip of forks (assuming nothing has seized). Disc/calliper spacing is not much of issue you could get custom discsc spaced correctly, you could also space the callipers (I done that). One thing I imagine could be an issue is hub for spoke rims is I think wider then 5 spoke rim on multistrada and multi already does not have manual cable drive. If you want manual Speedo drive it will be interesting to see how.
