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Originally Posted by Noah930
Isn't that bike the infamous "Gina?" There are epic threads about the thing on various Ducati forums.
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Norm and Jeff Brown are Ducati fans and like their big Italian V-twins to be light as a cannoli shell, as curvy as Sophia Loren as and as fast as a Ferrari.
Aptly named Hurricane Motorcycles, Norm and Jeff specialize in both building bikes and one-off custom fabrication. Featuring one of Norm's trellis frames, 'Gina' was built using a tuned two-valve 900SS engine and a host of specially fabricated parts to showcase Hurricane's expertise. Although why the bike is called Gina we dunno, as there's never been a hurricane of that name on America's Atlantic coast.
Starting with a 1992 SS900 engine, Norm cranked the Hurricane up to a Force 5 with a 944 big-bore kit featuring 11.5:1 high compression pistons, polished and ported intakes, titanium valves and a couple of Vee-Two high-torque camshafts. Making the bottom-end bullet proof was just as expensive with an FBF lightened flywheel and slipper clutch backed up by a Velocity clutch retainer and spring kit.
Complementing Norm's exquisite curved space frame chassis is a modified 996 single-sided swingarm juxtaposed with an hlins Road & Track shock, while the front wears a similarly purloined 996 Showa fork combo with matching Brembo discs, Goldline calipers and radial master cylinder.