New Contis fitted to my 907ie

Discussion in 'Vintage' started by Derek, Jul 23, 2013.

  1. The Contis I got off eBay from Gowanloch in Australia eventually arrived today.


    Look good on the bike;


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    Sound good too :biggrin:



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    #1 Derek, Jul 23, 2013
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  2. Lovely...

    They certainly do. :upyeah:
     
    #2 Dukedesmo, Jul 24, 2013
  3. That's a very tidy looking 907ie. How many miles?
     
    #3 gliddofglood, Jul 24, 2013
  4. 28,367 miles. I bought it off a Ducatisti member a couple of years ago. I've put about 2,000 on it since then. It now runs ST2 barrels, pistons and heads.
    I like your avatar, from ResEdit isn't it? Obviously you're also a Mac person :upyeah:
     
    #4 Derek, Jul 25, 2013
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  5. I can't believe you got them all the way from Oz.
     
    #5 El Toro, Jul 25, 2013
  6. Exporting items from Oz is easier these days, thanks to the death of The Wicked Witch of The West. (Or Thatch, as I liked to call her.)



    On topic: 907 was the first model that made me drool over Ducatis.
     
    #6 Loz, Jul 25, 2013
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  7. It wasn't cheap but the silencers were a good price and there are no new cans of any sort available in the UK for the Paso series. The ones that come up on eBay occasionally are usually all dinged and rusty. Even with paying the £100 delivery and getting stung for customs they were still half the price of a pair of Contis for a bevel.
     
    #7 Derek, Jul 25, 2013
  8. You're right. it is indeed the ResEdit icon which I always thought amusing. I am a Mac person, without being a Mac expert. I even made myself a ResEdit t-shirt.

    I had Spark carbon pipes on my 907ie and they were brilliant. Looked great and made a superb noise and weighed nothing. Plus they gave me more power and fuel economy. I wonder if they can still knock up a set...
     
    #8 gliddofglood, Jul 25, 2013
  9. I'll look forward to hearing those sometime Derek, be interesting to compare them with mine (though mine are baffled...slightly)
     
    #9 Dave G, Jul 25, 2013
  10. I worked with Macs from the late eighties until I got an early retirement deal 2 years ago. First thing I bought with my retirement cash was a new iMac :smile:
    Too late now ... I've spent all my cash on the Contis :biggrin:
     
    #10 Derek, Jul 25, 2013
  11. They don't sound like any other Ducati I've heard Dave. I'd wondered if they'd sound like a bevel but they don't. The cam timings are quite different and also I think because the belt engines rev higher and rev up much quicker. It will be interesting to compare with your SC but these are genuine Contis with nothing in them but that lovely spiral-fluted straight through tube.
     
    #11 Derek, Jul 25, 2013
  12. The spiral flutes are also in mine though I have the optional baffles in as I was more interested in aesthetics than volume.

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    #12 Dave G, Jul 25, 2013
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