Needs a performance kit to get above 190hp. Remember, no traction control... seem to remember they were good for 170 tho Edit: if it’s American, there’s is lower, so a 130hp bike seems to be 120 there
There are plenty of Youtube videos of them on the dyno. Remember these are RWHP figures one with and one without the race exhaust. So the 200BHP claim would seem to be perfectly reasonable at the crank with the race zorst and correctly set up. Certainly not 150BHP anyway. 185BHP once corrected for the dyno reading 8% low. 181BHP
It looks to have been used on the track, with the race nose fairing and non standard tail unit colours. It'll be interesting if it's full story is ever told. If that belly pan isn't there, that's going to be expensive. As is a headlight and nose cone. I guess they'll just use / sell it as is.
Was thinking the very same thing. If they got it for a very very good price, they may be able to break even. The advantage they would appear to have is labour costs, or rather lack of them. It's a low number production bike, with probably a similarly low production number and it's been sat for a long long time. So there could well be a fair bit of engine work to be done, exhaust valve spring for a start. Hopefully for them any recalls have been done; wiring, fuel lines, bodywork etc There are companies out there that have molds for the bodywork and can do carbon, so that might avoid Ducati OEM costs (if they can even get them). They had said that they want to return to it's glory using only Ducati items mind you... Not to mention a rear wheel, or even a front a rear pair and sourcing probably a road exhaust for MOT's etc.. Good luck to them, I admire their desire to take it back to how it once was.
Episode 2 says it was stuck in probate and the previous owner passed away....be nice to see it restored...personally for something of that heritage - id be going for a full strip, recoat (if its needs it) and then rebuild...
I never heard of oval pistons in the d16rr... I thought the only bike with oval pistons was the Honda nr750?!?
