Turned over the odometer this afternoon, for the second time on the old Monster ('93 M900).
Starting the third pass; it's running strong. Next stop -- the Moon!
PhilB
[thumbsup] [beer]
Wow [thumbsup]!! Tlhat's about 10k miles per year? Whereabouts has it brought you to?
That's awesome Phil! [beer]
Way to go, Phil !! [thumbsup] [clap]
I've been waiting for this.
Your bike may be destined for the Ducati Museum!
Amazing! congrats [thumbsup]
Highest ever? Some one contact dna..
A great acheivement! [clap]
Hats off to you. It's just great to hear this achievement.
What kind of engine maintenance did you go through? What kind of history did U 2 have? Post up pics of then and now :)
awesome, just awesome.
that is one well-used and enjoyed monster.
That is awesome! Congrats to you Sir and your Monster
Quote from: eric on July 14, 2012, 09:22:37 PMWow [thumbsup]!! Tlhat's about 10k miles per year? Whereabouts has it brought you to?
It's been my daily transportation for almost 19 years, so that's most of it. I'm also up to having gone to 26 states of the lower 48 on it.
Quote from: cokey on July 14, 2012, 10:25:08 PMHighest ever? Some one contact dna..
DNA is aware of the bike; they've seen it several times at various events around the country. I know of several Ducs over 100K. The highest I know of is Gary Eagan's ST4, that he set several endurance riding records on -- it has about 225K, and currently is in the Barber museum. Mine is second, AFAIK, but I'm not nearly done with it yet.
Quote from: ab on July 15, 2012, 05:26:51 AMHats off to you. It's just great to hear this achievement.
What kind of engine maintenance did you go through? What kind of history did U 2 have? Post up pics of then and now :)
The engine has required very little aside from basic maintenance. I had the weak chrome head studs initially; most of those got replaced at around 25K, but my shop just discovered last month, while handling a base gasket leak, that there were still 3 of the original faulty studs, so they replaced those. We put in piston rings and replaced a failed alternator bearing at 122K, a clutch basket at 140K, new (used) carburetors at 185K, just recently fixed a cylinder base gasket leak and replaced various seals and o-rings in the top end. And that's about it. Bottom end and transmission haven't seen the light of day since the bike was built.
There are some pics of it at the Indy MotoGP in 2010 in this thread: http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=10036.msg1048175#msg1048175 (http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=10036.msg1048175#msg1048175)
It was a "Bike of the Month" on this site back in August 2005, with the story up that point and lots o' pictures. I don't know if those are still archived on this site or not.
PhilB
FTR...
It was bike of the month on TOB... ducatimonster.org This site came into being in '08.
We do not archive anything from there.
Congrats Phil! [Dolph]
Quote from: ducpainter on July 15, 2012, 08:03:53 AM
FTR...
It was bike of the month on TOB... ducatimonster.org This site came into being in '08.
We do not archive anything from there.
Oops. Yep, right.
PhilB
Awesome! [thumbsup]
Way cool. [Dolph]
Congrats! [beer] [drink]
Well done, sir. [thumbsup]
Congrats! What a milestone [clap]
Very amazing. Thats alot of miles for anything
Thanks, everyone.
Another interesting thought -- this milestone also puts the bike somewhere in the vicinity of having done 1,000,000,000 engine revolutions. That's kind of neato.
PhilB
Great job keeping her running Phil!
I hope I can keep mine going for even half of that well done and loads of respect.
Well done Phil!
Weren't you featured in Motorcyclist awhile back? In their "Me and My Bike" column?
Quote from: DucatiBastard on July 17, 2012, 08:14:56 PMWell done Phil!
Weren't you featured in Motorcyclist awhile back? In their "Me and My Bike" column?
Thanks. Yes, the Dec09 issue. Only had 165K at that time.
PhilB
Quote from: PhilB on July 17, 2012, 08:27:55 PM
Thanks. Yes, the Dec09 issue. Only had 165K at that time.
PhilB
"only" [laugh]
That's amazing.
Makes my Monster with 47,000 kilometres on it look positively youthful! :)
GK
Congrats man!
But I'm catching you up, ever so slowly…
;-)
big
Wow! Congrats!
Quote from: bigiain on July 19, 2012, 03:29:02 AMCongrats man!
But I'm catching you up, ever so slowly…
;-)
big
Excellent! Too bad you're way down under; it would be really cool once you also pass 200K to get both our bikes over the Barber museum, have them roll out Gary Eagan's ST4, and get a pic with three 200K+ Ducatis.
PhilB