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Originally Posted by peteremsley
Wow. That some fancy materials. out Pieroboning Pierobon...
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Wow! I cannot believe I have never seen/heard of this company before. I love that. I am not much of a Duc guy, but one day I want to build a bike with Ducati air cooled 900.
Did some quick searching, that bike is their 'F042'- based on a 2V 1100 making 95HP. They claim the dry weight is 139 kg! That is light, but yeah.. not super light. Most of that extra is engine... I'm sure that 1100, while a sweet sounding machine, is a good 45kg+. Still nothing beats two strokes in power-to-wight. Lots of weight advantage to not having big heads or camshafts or cam chains. And those air cooled Ducs have to have some pretty heavy cylinder castings and a lot of oil volume to soak up heat.
That said, that is a bike you could ride all day long and then ride home too. An I bet the power delivery is like butter. What a beauty.