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Started by SwampMonster, August 04, 2011, 07:26:18 PM

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SwampMonster

August 04, 2011, 07:26:18 PM
I am at the point of doing some paint work on my motor case. As I started prepping couldn't help but to wonder if there is a reason beside ascetics that the cylinder is painted black on my M900? (heat dissipation, avoiding the Apocalypse or maybe that's what keeps the sky blue) Just had to ask. Thanks

ducatiz

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August 04, 2011, 07:36:13 PM
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zarn02

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August 04, 2011, 08:09:59 PM
â†' [laugh]

That gentleman in the picture, an ascetic, determined that black was the color which helped minimize your desires.

Also, he believed it gave the motor greater aesthetic value.




(So, for an actual answer to your question, it's black because somebody liked how it looked. The cylinder heads on my '00 900 were the same gray as everything else.)
"If it weren't for our gallows humor, we'd have nothing to hang our hopes on."

truckinduc

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August 09, 2011, 05:10:12 AM
paint helps the cast iron cylinder not turn brown. You can paint it silver if you wish.

ducatiz

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August 09, 2011, 05:11:22 AM
Quote from: truckinduc on August 09, 2011, 05:10:12 AM
paint helps the cast iron cylinder not turn brown. You can paint it silver if you wish.

cast....iron???

I thought this was a Ducati thread....?
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

junior varsity

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August 12, 2011, 03:26:32 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on August 09, 2011, 05:11:22 AM
cast....iron???

I thought this was a Ducati thread....?


hahahahaha +1


these betches be aluminIum!

He Man

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August 12, 2011, 04:51:37 PM
not mine. i have cast iron frame. its really pregnant dogin.
2006 Ducati S2R1100 Yea.... stunttin like my daddy CHROMED OUT 1100!!!!


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