The tail of the bike is completely custom, and it apparently took Zipprian four tries to get right. Follow the Builder Photography by Instagram: Facebook:. Suspension and Brakes: Starting from the basics on what every bike should have, in this case, the factory Brembo calipers and rotors already do an amazing job — once replacing the pads with an aggressive sintered pad. The tank sides are freshly decaled. Usually I like to fill the slots with a mesh of some sort however on this build I went with truth to materials allowing the internals to be on display. It is a Ducati engine after all. The suspension has been completely overhauled using the Italian Bitubo components front and rear.
The heavy original silencer was removed and a new Mivv double gun unit ordered never order an Italian part just before August, delivery times stretch out like Narnian time dilation. The Ducati Scrambler was clearly developed to appeal to this same market, but the Italians went all-out and developed a road-biased dual sport motorcycle with better off-road chops than the British model. When it comes to modern scramblers we typically think of the 865cc Triumph Scrambler, a model based on the Bonneville with some small accommodations made for light off-road use. They might also eventually release a Desert Sled version of the new Scrambler 1100. The design on the upholstery was significant in the way of bringing a modern twist to the already classic looking bike. Frederico Martini — a former Ducati engineer — but things soured before the project was completed, and the bike was very nearly never built. That whole business has an Öhlins steering damper.
The swingarm was originally for a , the rear is sprung by Öhlins. The stock gas tank on the bike has a fresh new coat of paint, and that is probably the least effort put into any part. The bike you see here is one of the latter types, and it can now be seen daily on the streets of London. A small rear light was ordered from Alchemy Parts was fitted along with Motogadget indicators front and back, this cleaned up the look of the bike significantly. The plastic seat pan was carefully modified and sent to Glenn Moger to work is leather magic, and give it fresh upholstery. These four Ducati Scrambler customs could be an indication that the Italian company is considering a cafe racer version of its new Scrambler 1100. Givi, Sw-Motech, and Puig does the rest in the protection and ergonomics department.
As you might expect, the Ducati Scrambler has been a popular target with custom motorcycle builders around the world. Alloy side panels were fabricated in-house and slots fitted. He mentioned that he never takes pillions so a small seat would be a good idea. The clean look of the front end of the bike is helped by its Motogadget bar-end turn signals but? Not this guy: he worked on that tail section for 200 hours to get it right. The winner will be announced in July during Wold Ducati Week at Misano Adriatico in Italy. When possible we like to bring you the story of a custom motorcycle in the words of the people who built it, to cut out the middle man and give you an unfiltered look into their thought process. We were lucky enough to have our first Ducati Scrambler named featured on your amazing website once and we thought we should continue pumping them out as long as we can.
Engine mods: The 803cc is perfect at what it does but no bike is complete with a factory exhaust so out went the heavy steel pipes and in came a full titanium mash up using an Akrapovic header mated to a titanium Mivv dual barrel muffler. Their second Custom Rumble competition for custom Scramblers has recently announced the four finalists culled out of 132 entrants from around the world. . Aree You can view all the competitors on the dedicated Instagram page. However, the company has just released a Scrambler 1100 1079cc , so perhaps they will add a cafe racer version of that.
Electric Scrambler Scrambler 1100 Cafe Racer? Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media. You can follow Ben on , , or. The previous competition resulted in the model and over a decade ago Ducati asked for votes about which SportClassic models to release. Coterie West of Los Angeles is a small group of like-minded individuals with a shared passion for motorcycles…particularly the Ducati Scrambler. That said, I do love the challenge that this presented, and so a budget was set and the bike brought in so work could begin. Riding a two-wheel is already cool… riding a customized bike is all character. While the competition attracted a variety of styles including an electric bike, the finalists all seem to point to cafe racer designs.
Maybe you can talk him into reproducing those triple-trees for you, so that you can bolt Panigale forks to your Scrambler, too. They ended up releasing all three. The first order of business was removing most of the plastic, the tank and wheels were then sent to Image Custom Design to be painted. After he spent the afternoon looking at our bikes and chatting about his bike he decided to take his bike that bit further into the custom world. Louder lighter silencers was also something he had thought about. Lower, narrower handlebars were also fitted as the original ones are wide and high not great for filtering in London traffic. A host of Rizoma gloss black anodized goods are subtle unless people know what they are looking at.
Functionality is as important as styling should be when it comes to owning a motorcycle. They were selected by more than 200,000 votes on their special. Triumph have since responded with a far more aggressive 1200cc Scrambler, but in the meantime Ducati have sold well over of their own. A nice distressed brown leather from the local shop gave the owner the look he desired to go with the factory Matte black color the Full Throttle Scrambler model comes equipped with. Remember, this is a competition run by Ducati so they are serious about looking for clues on which direction to take next.