How about this for an OTT 1098R!

**marty** · 3rd December 2009, 06:56

WTF? so all the wheel manufacturers in the world that are building CF wheels are wrong? where's your R&D to back up your statement?

**vifferman** · 3rd December 2009, 06:58

Originally Posted by DangerousBastard

Sounds like an (very) expensive bling exercise to me, and not much more.

Of course it is - and given that it's only going to be used a street bike (with maybe the odd track day), there's no real point apart from wank factor. But it's still kewl to see some of those exquisitely manufactured components.

**Insanity_rules** · 3rd December 2009, 06:59

That is so completely un-necessary, vulgar and I so want one!

**grusomhat** · 3rd December 2009, 08:47

Considering custom builders spend that kind of money on their mostly non-functioning "masterpiece's" what's wrong with spending it on an actual functioning bike? Most of the stuff going on it is not just bling.

**george formby** · 3rd December 2009, 08:52

Originally Posted by Insanity_rules

That is so completely un-necessary, vulgar and I so want one!

+1

I can't ride for toffee but I love expensive engineering.

**2wheeldrifter** · 3rd December 2009, 09:54

Originally Posted by renegade master

yawn .

Glad you found the the time to drop in lazy sod....

**gatch** · 3rd December 2009, 16:16

Originally Posted by vifferman

Did you read the posts? Someone made the point that the titanium being used isn't the strongest thing to use, and the builders pointed out that on the Ducati the engine is the main stressed member, not the frame, so the frame didn't need to be super-duper strong.

Nar, just dribbled at the pictures..

The steering head and part of the suspension still hooks on the the chassis, Ti is terrible with any kind of vibration and will probably crack, even if there is no significant load on..

**marty** · 7th December 2009, 07:14

does depend on what alloy of Ti it is though - plenty of push bike frames made from it that do OK, plenty of critical high performance aeroplane parts are Ti, and most of the SR-71 is made from it.

**imdying** · 7th December 2009, 08:01

No no, you've got it all wrong Marty... the boys on Kiwi Biker definitely know more about making titanium frames than those hacks at NCR... I mean shit bro, they've only made a few hundred, what would they know?

**Swoop** · 7th December 2009, 10:23

Originally Posted by marty

plenty of critical high performance aeroplane parts are Ti, and most of the SR-71 is made from it.

The central wingbox of the F-14 Tomcat is Ti. Swing-wing aircraft with carrier deck landings. They seem to have functioned quite well over 30years of abuse.

**Kickaha** · 7th December 2009, 10:43

Originally Posted by marty

WTF? so all the wheel manufacturers in the world that are building CF wheels are wrong? where's your R&D to back up your statement?

He doesn't have anything to back up his statement he's talking shit as usual

http://www.ecossemoto.com/titaniumseries.htm

If you do a search on titanium Motorcycle frames they're a lot more "common" than I would have thought

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/03nov...cr_leggera.htm

or what about a nice Carbon Fibre 999

**imdying** · 7th December 2009, 10:45

Man the endurance series ISRs on the front of the Ecosse Moto are horny looking

And yes, carbon fibre makes good wheels. Only reason they're banned from motogp is cost.

**Kickaha** · 7th December 2009, 11:02

Was this the first Titanium bike?
BSA Motocrosser

**R6_kid:Me** · 7th December 2009, 11:57

Sounds like there are a lot of jealous and probably poor people in the thread! After watching a documentary last night on gambling and seeing a guy end up 250k-300k after four days (and not be visibly worried about it) I'm happy to see it being spent on something that could arguably be considered a work of art - or just a really expensive puzzle.

Of course there are still all those kids in Africa...