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This is the "Ducati" decal

The other new addition is the kickstart rubber. Steve Allen was looking at the bike at Laguna, and pointed out it was missing. I had no idea, because it was gone when I found the bike.

Steve suggested the older "Sport" style rubber with the checkerboard pattern. Good call, Steve! I love it!

Hi Tim, your bike is fantactic. I have the same model but without steering damping because is impossible find it.
I think that your steering damping is not original Palioli, isn´t it?
Can you tell me where is the bike procedence of your steering damping to looking for it ?

Unfortunately, I have no idea about the damper. It was on the bike when I found it, along with the fuel taps that point down, which I am told are not original either. I will take some close up photos and post them, along with any identifying marke or labels. I am pretty sure the bike never left the USA, and it did only have one owner, but other than that, I am not sure of the history.
Tim

I finally installed the new seat cover from Andy at Desmo.net. This is an incredible cover...great fit, and so close to the original you can't believe it!

From any angle, this is a great looking cover!

For those of use that are overly anal (that would be ME!), I can say that this cover is so accurate that the only way you can tell it is a repop is that it is new. The heat embossing is exactly like my original. The only difference I could find is under the cover where you can't see it. The original cover had a pad embossed to the underside that leaves an ugly outline around the embossing after a few years. So, this cover is IMPROVED!

Those of you who decide to use this cover will find that the original passenger strap is held in place with 1/4" pop rivets. After some searching, I found the rivets, only to find that the gun for a 1/4" rivets is about $120!!! So, I drilled new 3/16" holes next to the 1/4" holes and used 3/16" rivets instead.

Hi Tim, I have the same model, DARMAH 78, but I have a problem with the spaces of the axel of rear wheell. Can you put a couple of photos of them? I must be something missing..... ??

your problem is in the sprocket carrior, the bearings are shot and need to be replaced, see what I put in your topic........

What I learned on my summer vacation...

Don't jump on the throttle in first gear on your stock squarecase, or you may pop the transmission out of gear, causing these really nice, round, and chipped first gear dogs...

So, off to Phil in Oz for a back-cut...

...and no more 1st gear ProStock launches!!!

Here you can clearly see the damage to shift fork caused by first gear popping out and pushing back against the fork.

This is a shot of the damage to the second gear dogs. The rest of the transmission looks pretty good.