Re: Bellagio mods

[ghezzi]

I musta been gooderer coz look wot Santa brung me.

Stage 1 - Lithium battery, under seat battery tray, seat and tail light.
Still to complete - rear guard brackets (BMW R1200GS style) rolled alloy - paint black. Ducati Monster bars.

Stage 2 - Pipes as you see here.
Still to complete - matt black ceramic coating, re-flashed ECU on its way from Todd, K&N + open air box, dyno etc.

Stage 3 - dreaming, polished alloy Mk 1 Le Mans fuel tank with vintage cap at 1 O'clock, maybe followed by alloy Mk 1 Le Mans fairing.

Pipes are only spray painted, installed wet, big storm on the way home. The 2 into 1 design was to incorporate a "little fat chubby" (hey Pete, I understand a little bit of wee came out) Catalytic Convertor to keep the pig sniffers at bay.


Pipemaster's in Brisbane are the creators.
Ignore the alloy muffler bracket - temporary solution. Fancy bracket to match design of rear guard mount.

[ghezzi]

Guard held by double sided sticky, good for 1 sec or 1 meter ..........................."squash"



Any photoshoppers out there want to reshape my guard? Rizoma LED number plate light and rego label plus (ADR)reflector to be added.

[pete roper]

It certainly makes the bike look a alot lighter at the rear. I have a customer who has just bought a set of, I think' Nelson' brand mufflers from NZ. Unfortunately she hasn't been able to fit them as the factory has mis-labled the gaskets and the ones we have are wrong!!! Grrrr.

Pete

[Jlyon99]

New pipe is a big improvement. Well done.

Can't really see how the hugger is attached, but like it too.

[Chicago Mark]

Ok, the double pipes look interesting. It really depaends on the angle of the photo as well as the background. In the top photo, they almost disapear. They also look like they have no means of support. Do they bounce up and down as the bike goes down the road? I think an entire stock Griso 8v header and muffler would look good on it. Sometimes too much black all blends together and doesn't photograph well.

Merry Christmas,

Mark

[ghezzi]

New pipe is a big improvement. Well done.

Can't really see how the hugger is attached, but like it too.

Held by double sided sticky, to the tyre. Bracket will mount to rear caliper, same as GS Beemer.

[ghezzi]

Ok, the double pipes look interesting. It really depaends on the angle of the photo as well as the background. In the top photo, they almost disapear. They also look like they have no means of support. Do they bounce up and down as the bike goes down the road? I think an entire stock Griso 8v header and muffler would look good on it. Sometimes too much black all blends together and doesn't photograph well.

Merry Christmas,

Mark

Top and 5th photo show triangular alloy muffler bracket, which I stated was a temporary measure.

[Charlie J]

Well done,I will be keen to see how much adjustment of the throttle bodies is required to get balance. How does it sound and what affect has your headers on power / torque?

[ghezzi]

ECU is still on a slow red sley from the North side - then we dyno, OK.

[d15nel]

As a fellow bellagio owner in the uk i am very interested in what you're doing with your bike and loving the progression. Looking forward to further posts as things develop. I think there is a carc mounted frame that will accept the number plate (stucchi?) maybe this could be adapted to mount your ali hugger?

Merry christmas and good luck with the project.