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If you guess baby blue radiator bushings you're absolutely correct!!
After having my radiator repaired I painted it and it looks much better of course. One of the bushings was damaged so I ordered up a replacement for all of em. Guess what? Ducati, in their infinite wisdumb, decided to supercede the black part number with...that's right baby blue! WTF is that?
Yet on the showroom floor all the 1098's and 1198's are black bushings.

Sounds like a part number supercession gone bad.  I used to work in the parts biz a while ago...seen it happen.

Secksy... Those don't stand out.

Any chance a sharpie is the cure for your blues?

Your just going to have to get the bike painted baby blue to match. 

yep I'm going to try a sharpie, it'll probably take. Just ridiculous! Maybe if it matched the blue of the S4R but this is way out there   

It's just....mind bottling!
SO you all should go out and buy up your dealers stock if you think you might ever need replacements...they  might still have black

Quote from: pennyrobber on July 08, 2009, 09:45:07 AM
Your just going to have to get the bike painted baby blue to match. 

DO NOT WANT

Quote from: vwboomer on July 08, 2009, 10:38:16 AM
yep I'm going to try a sharpie, it'll probably take. Just ridiculous! Maybe if it matched the blue of the S4R but this is way out there   

It's just....mind bottling!
SO you all should go out and buy up your dealers stock if you think you might ever need replacements...they  might still have black

Did you say "mind bottling?"

Quote from: pompetta on July 08, 2009, 11:02:00 AM
Did you say "mind bottling?"

Haaaaaahahahahahah (I've had a few beers) and........

Quote from: yuu on July 08, 2009, 09:11:41 AM
......cure for your blues?

Zing!

aren't those the silscon ones for the exhaust?

Quote from: pompetta on July 08, 2009, 11:02:00 AM
Did you say "mind bottling?"

lol mind bottling!

Been so long since I had my stock exhaust on I dunno if they were blue or not. Spose I might dig it out of the box, but why would it be...hmmm. I don't think any of the mounting points on my Remus GP lined up properly so I can't go compare 

And since I've had a few beers after work, I'm just gonna throw it out there in case you thought I really meant 'mind bottling'...it's from Zoolander 

Quote from: JustMike on July 08, 2009, 10:04:10 PM
aren't those the silscon ones for the exhaust?

Look to be the same to me...

Quote from: Jarvicious on July 08, 2009, 08:22:19 PM
Zing!

Someone caught it... though it was totally unintentional when I wrote it out originally.

Yes, Ducati did change the radiator bushings to the same number as the exhaust mount bushings.