Go fast, look fly: Analog’s Ducati 1000 DS race bike
The online classifieds of the world are littered with basket cases that may or may not make good donors for custom motorcycle projects. But how often do you stumble upon a rolling chassis sporting a bespoke titanium frame, a Ducati 1000 DS motor and a smattering of track-spec goodies" And how often is it a bike that was previously featured on Bike EXIF"
The first time we laid eyes on this Ducati, Icon Motosports had turned it into a wild track beater for their design director, Kurt Walters. Now, over a decade since its first rebuild, Tony Prust at Analog Motorcycles has given it a second lease on life.
Rumor has it that the bike spent time on the track, before eventually going under the knife again. That project was abandoned, the bones of it were put on Craigslist, and long time Analog customer, Del Thomas, snapped it up. ?He bought with the intention of doing an Analog Motorcycles custom build at some point,? Tony tells us. ?After all, the components alone on it were well worth the price he scooped it up for. Several ideas were thrown around about what to do with it, but we never settled on anything.?
Del is not only Tony’s customer, but his friend and racing teammate too. The two had been piloting Analog’s ‘Hyper8’ Ducati Hypermotard in the AHRMA Battle of the Twins racing series, in the sub-900 cc ‘2’ class. Since this donor bike came with a lot of race-ready components, they decided to turn it into another race bike?b...
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