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my shot in Eicma 2011... OMT Garage Ducati Cafe Racer

Ductalk Editors note - For more of this beauty see our post from November 2011: http://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/2011/11/ducati-cafe-racer-by-omt-garage.html

'05 Ducati 999 "cafe fighter"
-clean/clear NC title (titled as a '05 ducati 999 superbike; never dropped or wrecked either)
-current mileage is right at 1450 miles (may change)
-motor is from a 2001 ducati monster 900Sie...had only 10200 miles when built; new cam belts and k&n pod filters (this means no radiator to give the minimalist look)...this is a fuel injected motor with the breather box relocated underneath the seat
-frame is a ducati 999 ('05)
-tank is a modified 999 tank
-subframe and seat are from RAD ducati
-single-sided swingarm from a ducati s4R
-carbon fiber front fender
-marchesini wheels from a ducati 996S
-front end from a ducati 999
-headlight from a harley davidson vrod
-rear shock from a ducati 996
-koso digital gauges
-tyga pipe with custom exhaust piping (heat coated black)
-steering damper from a 999
-custom clip-ons
-custom rear sets
-custom adjustable levers
-custom bar end blinkers
-everything powdercoated or painted black (minus forks)

More photos on the link

If you’ve never done it, going on a track day seems like a really big deal – a huge right of passage that will give most (honest) riders butterflies, and a nagging fear that you are likely to crash. Next, you realise you’re uninsured on-track, too broken to work, lose your job, wife, kids and eventually you’ll end up in a cardboard box in the Southbank trying to remember what bikes you once owned, through misty eyes brought on by too much cheap lager....more