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That last pic looks like a Terra Mostro. That was a kit you could buy for several billion dollars to transform your Monster 695 into a dirty monster. I think they’re out of business now. I love it though.

Do you know what ECU you have? My setup will read Magnetti Marelli 5AM and 59M ECUs. It’s possible for me to download software to read some of the other MM ECUs like the 15x series. However, after 2010 Ducati had moved on to Siemens and Mitsubishi controllers on many of their bikes and I can’t...

Oh yeah. I forgot all about the near ankle break. Probably because it was your ankle and not mine. Definitely added to the experience, though.

I’m so bored. I haven’t missed this much work due to being sick ever, I think. I don’t know what I got, but it’s not pleasant. I was supposed to leave on a three day road trip tomorrow morning. That ain’t gonna happen. This wasn’t just any road trip. This was a ROAD trip. The kind where I was...

Just for fun… most KTMs use a 50.25 x 29 x 15mm bearing in the headstock. All Ducati’s use 55 x 35 x 14mm bearings. Headstock length on both bikes is 7ish inches. Should be a piece of cake for me to turn a spacer to drop KTM bearings in a Duc frame and thus KTM forks.

Okay, so this is the part where I need help from RME. What do I do with the $500 Monster now? I’ve got another $1200 into it— seat, tank, bars, levers, miscellaneous hardware and a $500 USED fuel pump. Yeah, you read that right. It was $1k for a new one. I bet it needs another $600-700 to make...

First post was getting pretty lengthy, so I’ll start again. Funny story: I love my new Monster, so I’ve been commuting on it. My wife gets after me because I don’t have my motorcycle endorsement and she’s sure I’m gonna get busted. I give in to the spousal pressure and go to the driver’s...

I’m home from work sick. It’s probably Covid, but only because I’m not sure it’s possible to be sick with anything besides Covid anymore. Bad cold = Covid. Raging diarrhea = Covid. Brain tumor = Covid. Anyway, I’m so bored that I thought I’d write a lengthy post detailing how I ended up with...

So I started this tube chassis build before my now fifteen year old son was born. And I "finished" it last Friday. Of course, nothing is ever really finished, right? Back in the early 2000's, the plan was narrowed Kyosho TwinForce axles, a Losi XXX stadium truck trans, a brushless airplane...

The mini murder spork is actually a standard issue utensil from the Utah State prison. Some of you may recognize it.

Since there isn't much actual mountain biking going on right now, here are some links to a four part video series ($300 bike challenge) that several of us participated in. @sixstringsteve or Hardtail Party was the mastermind behind the premise and editing all the footage. @benjy and...

I have a set of Vermont American taps and dies that I have been very happy with. The are at least fifteen, maybe twenty years old. Can't remember for sure. I got them at Ace Hardware. They lasted through my automotive repair career and are still going strong now that I have my "machine shop"...

Steve— you can’t see it in any of the above pictures very well, but that frame has exactly what you are talking about. It’s an insert that’s sized to adapt to the seat post. Most seat tubes are 1 3/8” x .035” wall tubing which is nice and light, but the i.d. is too small to hold a seat post...

I have a Santa Cruz 5010c frame that got squished and I glued it back together for measuring purposes. I’m going to use the links and suspension geo and build my own front and rear triangles. I think there’s a pic in this thread four or five pages back of the glued up frame. That will be my...

Several reasons, none of them very scientific: 1. Oxy/Acetylene torch setups are cheaper than TIG welders. I have two and I'm only in $500 2. I don't have a TIG at home yet, and dragging all my frame building stuff to the shop at the work place is a PITA 3. I'm okay at TIG welding, but...

Becaues this thread has been dead too long... Because regular high school has been kinda lame this year, I've had make up for it with extra metal shop classes. Those conversations with your teenager about where bikes come from are not nearly as awkward as the ones about where babies come from...

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I tried this. Then I could not ride my mountain bike. Nor could anyone else.

I had some Elixirs back in the day. They weren't noisy and they stopped okay, but they were always spongy, no matter how much bleeding. Switched to Shimano after that and haven't looked back. I wanted to try Sram again, but the swelling piston thing kind of turned me off. I've had a set of...

That's funny. I've been riding mountain bikes way longer than I've been riding dirt bikes, so when I go into panic mode on the muertocycle I grab a big handful of the right side lever... and wash out the front tire. Or stoppie. Either way, the panic level rises and more stupidity ensues...