Bigger Than Bikes: Ducati 749 Custom

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It's been said before, but modern engines with all their gubbins really should be modestly hiding behind fairings....

The exhausts are a mess too.
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Opps, looks like timmy the apprentice put the engine in before all the parts had come back from the sand blaster.
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It's different and perhaps given time one may come to love this in the resigned manner one would adopt for a bastard ginger haired step child.

Maybe.
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Be nice when it's finished.
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Hideous!

Unless you remove the fairing, then I'd like it. :thumbup:
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That's a definite no.
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No Sir, I don't like it.
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It's one loose stone being flung up away from being a hand grenade.
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Taipan wrote: Wed May 13, 2026 11:15 am Hideous!

Unless you remove the fairing, then I'd like it. :thumbup:
Yup, it's the fairing that kills it. Take that off and you have a reasonable starting point.
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Bare timing belts out in the breeze?

That's not gonna end well.
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I'm normally a sucker for black and gold, but not quite this time
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