Written by Andrew Jones
Overthinking things can be a death wish for any custom project. You spend all your energy on the creative part of the build and by the time you have to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty, you’re kind of over it. Here?s a hot tip for you: it doesn’t matter how long you spend in Photoshop, it won’t get the bike built. So when Scott Halbleib from Kentucky’s H Garage casually decided to maybe spend ?a few days here and there? on a lonesome Ducati 900SS taking up space in his shop, is it any wonder it turned out this good"

Tim, a bike ?flipper? and regular H Garage customer, had brought a beat-up old ?01 900SS into the Kentucky shop over the winter. Initially, his plan was to get it cleaned up and sell it for a quick profit. But Scott had other ideas. ?It sat there for weeks tempting me; I have a real soft spot for Ducatis. Then we were all hanging out one night. I said, ?Tim, what would you think about selling me that bike"? ? Of course, he agreed and Scott spent the next few months trying to focus on the paying client?s work while spending his rare spare moments on the Duc racer.
Its poor state of repair was pretty apparent, so Scott had sister shop Retrowrench go through the Ducati’s internals to get it running well before he let loose. ?The previous owner had welded some large mufflers on it, which had rubbed through the swingarm.? Unexpected cost number 1. ?Then I spent some time trying to rerout...