Written by Martin Hodgson
On any given Sunday you can stroll the pit lanes of any World Championship level racing and be surrounded by the very best in the industry. From engine builders to data experts, chassis guys and suspension tuners, these are the cream of the crop. But like the rest of us, they all need their own transport and you start to wonder what do the elite of the industry throw their leg over. For composite material specialist Uros Urbanja of Slovenia, it doesn’t matter which manufacturer he’s supplying, he’s always been a Ducatista at heart. So it makes perfect sense the Orcus Motorcycles head honcho gets his kicks on this sinister street scrambler based on a Ducati ST2.

For Uros the elite skill he brings to the race paddock is his ability to design, mould and produce incredible parts from modern, lightweight materials. One of his major customers is Yamaha Austria Racing Team (YART) who compete in the FIM Endurance World Championship, where races like the Suzuka 8 hour and 24 Hours of Le Mans push man and machine to their limit. It’s a testament to the quality of the parts he makes, but it wasn’t always this way as Uros spent 20 years as a paramedic.
But now when the husband and father isn’t making extended range carbon fibre fuel tanks for the latest Superbikes, he runs his own custom workshop, Orcus Motorcycles. Which as he tells us ?is named after the Roman God Orcus, punisher of the broken oaths, God of the underw...