BSD Ducati 1098 race bike

BSD Ducati 1098 race bike rebuild part 3: Factory swingarm linkage

Posted July 20th, 2011 in BSD Ducati 1098 race bike, Uncategorized.

While we haven’t achieved much to actually look at a deal of effort has gone into measuring the rear swingarm ratios. We’ve fitted a chopped-about Streetfighter arm plus a Ducati Factory link; and there has been much measuring and graphing compared to stock ever since, in an effort to understand the problems the stock bike [...]

BSD Ducati 1098 race bike rebuild part 2: NRG clutch

Posted July 18th, 2011 in BSD Ducati 1098 race bike.

BSD’s Ducati 1098 race bike project is progressing… slowly. The engine’s back in the frame and we’ve fitted an NRG slipper clutch; we’re impressed with the build quality of it. The Ducati Corse items can be fragile; we’ve had problems in the past with springs breaking and the ramps’ Teflon coating (because the clutch is [...]

BSD Ducati 1098 race bike rebuild part 1

Posted May 9th, 2011 in BSD Ducati 1098 race bike.

Part one of an ongoing project we’ll be documenting here as and when over the course of the next few months; BSD’s very own Ducati 1098 race bike rebuild. It won the UK Sound of Thunder championship in 2007, and it raced in the European Sound of Thunder series in 2008 with quite a few [...]