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SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
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Author:  Desmo Tutu [ Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:40 am ]
Post subject:  SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
I have been offered a SD900 frame w/swingarm and the gas tank. Correct papers also. Many years ago the bike was stripped to build an NCR replica for racing.
The seller want about $500,- for the frame with papers.
IF i buy it, what options do I have? Can a more modern/available engine, wheels&brakes etc be mounted, or am i stuck with finding a bevel engine and go from there?
Everything Bevel is rare like hens teeth in Norway.
I guess restoring the bike with original parts would be very costly and I would be better off just buying a complete SD900.
But if I could build a "hot rod" with more available parts from 91-97SS, monster etc it's maybe possible to get it back on the road.

Happy for advice.
(If someone has an old SD stuck in the shed with no papers, send me an IM... :)
Author:  Carlo [ Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
the ducati, it's like the pig .... you do not throw anything away ... ;)
Author:  Desmo Tutu [ Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
Ciao Carlo. When I visited you and your lovely wife back in 2015 I didn't see any Bevel engines in your "shed", but maybe you have some spare "for the pig" 8-)

I buy old Ducati parts when I stumble over them, so I already have the NOS alternator and clutch cover, and two front discs. So it's a start... :lol:
Author:  750TT [ Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
They are motorcycles that are acquiring great value lately,so go ahead.
I have a pair of FPS wheels, in case you are interested in your project.

Regards!!
Author:  Desmo Tutu [ Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
750TT wrote:
I have a pair of FPS wheels, in case you are interested in your project.


Thanks, I will get back to you on that one if I buy the frame.
Have been looking around, but there seems to be more or less impossible to get an engine to put in the frame.
Author:  750TT [ Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
Desmo Tutu wrote:
750TT wrote:
I have a pair of FPS wheels, in case you are interested in your project.


Thanks, I will get back to you on that one if I buy the frame.
Have been looking around, but there seems to be more or less impossible to get an engine to put in the frame.

I have started a similar project, with a frame F1.I did not wait to have it all, I started the adventure and little by little I have been completing the project. It will be an international motorcycle. :mrgreen:
Author:  618F1 [ Thu Oct 25, 2018 11:50 am ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
Your build reminds me of a Johnny Cash song, TT. Something about a car built "one piece at a time" over a Detroit car-worker's 30-year career.

MikeV
Author:  huit [ Thu Oct 25, 2018 12:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
He built a Cadillac!
A great song heard in the shop the other day.
I have a horizontal cyclinder in good shape if needed.
Author:  750TT [ Thu Oct 25, 2018 1:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: SD900 Frame - Should I buy it?
618F1 wrote:
Your build reminds me of a Johnny Cash song, TT. Something about a car built "one piece at a time" over a Detroit car-worker's 30-year career.

MikeV

I hope not to take so long :shock: :lol:
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