Shes at home at last, and she is complete with mirrors. Her sister kept feeling alone, so they will make company each other.



As "paso750" said, she come with racing cans.



but not only, since i found in the box a flywheel and fuel jets, i guess she has a lightened flywheel and proper fuel jets, compliant to these mods, or may be something else that i don't know for now.




Under the seat a small treasure:

They look great together, Is that SP2?

Tried to start the engine today. Dried the tank from old gasoline, put new one inside, turned the key and........ nothing!!!
Battery is gone. So i bought a new one, put liquids inside and charged it, then.................

http://s1231.photobucket.com/user/Sergi ... 1.mp4.html


The old battery


The new one:


The battery settle:

Fantastic .

Cheers
Andrew

congratulations Sergio, you have a couple of good looking bikes

I wouldn't waste my money on a lead acid battery though...there are much better batteries on the market now

Today first ride.
Early in the morning (in Italy early means 9:00 o'clock) i went to the insurance company to get the girl insured, and then back to garage to take her out. I had to go for tecnical inspection. Here il lasts two years, and now she is ok untill october 2015.
First impressions:
1) This bike is like a truck to drive, compared to the other Ducatis i own.
2) The throttle action is not clean, and sometimes idle runs too high, while stopping at red lights.
3) Brakes are not so good. I think a new set of pads will fix any ploblem.

I think the bike needs just to be driven, to get used to 16" rims and so wide tires, and for the regular running of the engine, i think the carburetor needs a very deep and accurate cleaning.
After the tecnical control i went for a short trip around the town, and noticed the clutch lever become soo fu***g hard i hardly could start and stop. What may it be?? Now she is resting in garage, and as soon as possible i want to take the clutch cover off and check what's going on with it.

I found why the clutch was so hard: the shafto of the pushing plate was almost seized. It was dry and rusty. Now, after some cleaning and some (not too much) disulfide lithium grease, it work pretty great. I tested it in the afternoon, and also the carburation improved after some air screw adjustement.





This makes me think about a winter rebuilding................


Here the new bearing for the clutch piston.

Great bikes How's the suspension setup? I've installed an öhlins at the rear (setup hard). At the front I turned it to position 1. Also an 180/60/16 bridgestone at the rear and the handling is as good as my 851. Ok it's a Strada, not a SP3


Here's a topic about the öhlins I've overhauled: