Dual disc Hypermotard - Ducati.ms

pazzoduc · May 18th, 2006, 3:50 pm

Hmmm... Read last night in the AMA rag that (as we all know already) Ducati is producing the Hypermotard...

BUT with a dual front disc! What?

I hope that doesn't mean the production version will get a bunch of tack-on low cost weight enhacning BS. Hence needing more clenchers.

**Chuckracer** · May 18th, 2006, 3:52 pm

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Originally Posted by pazzoduc

Read last night in the AMA rag...

I think I found the problem...

pazzoduc · May 18th, 2006, 4:00 pm

Haha, Maybe so, but i've been riding a LONG LONG time. Without them You wouldn't be on that steed of yours....

But that doesn't make them right either. Just food for thought really.

**Chuckracer** · May 18th, 2006, 5:03 pm

[QUOTE=pazzoduc]Haha, Maybe so, but i've been riding a LONG LONG time. Without them You wouldn't be on that steed of yours[....QUOTE]

So have I, and I don't buy that argument for a second. But that's a discussion for another thread...

pazzoduc · May 18th, 2006, 5:39 pm

yup, everybody has an opinion, and mine is a single disc front end!!

**Chuckracer** · May 18th, 2006, 5:45 pm

Then we are in agreement! Cool!!

**DucMike** · May 18th, 2006, 7:06 pm

That's kinda what I was hoping for too. Less weight & less cost to boot.

**Mhe225** · May 18th, 2006, 11:22 pm

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Originally Posted by pazzoduc

I hope that doesn't mean the production version will get a bunch of tack-on low cost weight enhacning........

Like aluminum engine cases instead of magnesium?

Will the current headers make it in to the production-run? And the Ohlins shock, the open clutch (not), .....?
RonB

**amullo** · May 19th, 2006, 4:08 am

I´m not gonna say much, except that magnesium is expenssive, so start saving. So are slipperclutches, but they come stock on some bikes..

And dualdiscs need only be employed on "big bore" machines.

zooom · May 19th, 2006, 8:57 am

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Originally Posted by amullo

I´m not gonna say much, except that magnesium is expenssive, so start saving. So are slipperclutches, but they come stock on some bikes..

And dualdiscs need only be employed on "big bore" machines.

well...with all the weight they are going to HAVE to add back onto the chassis for production....it might be heavy enough to need the dual front disks...between engine cases...catalyzers in the exhaust and whatnot...and so forth and so on....you get the idea....I'd be curious if you take any current Ducati with a 1000DS motor in it and take 1 caliper and hang it up off the wheel and go down the road and try and stop with that one caliper alone what a difference it would impress apon ya!