Motorcycle News - A Scrambler Ducati 800 upgraded by a Honda designer
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This long, low and heavily-upgraded Ducati comes from Nattapat Janyapanich, who lives in Thailand and has designed bikes for Honda R&D Southeast Asia.
This Scrambler Ducati 800 is Nattapat’s latest build, and a joint project with Ducati Thailand—who helped out on the production side.
Nattapat started by upgrading the dynamics, replacing the stock Kayaba forks with Öhlins forks from a Ducati 999R (and installing an Öhlins shock to match).
Clip-on bars replace the rather upright conventional bars fitted by the factory, and the headlight has been repositioned to sit snugly against the fork tubes.
The Scrambler 800 has generally appealing bodywork and proportions, so Nattapat has kept his changes relatively subtle. He’s replaced the tank with the simpler Scrambler Sixty2 item, which loses the fussy side panel detailing but retains the overall shape.
Nattapat then trimmed down the rear frame after working out the best shape in clay, and created a minimal new seat and tail unit. This section is now made from carbon fiber for a useful weight reduction.
These parts are produced in-house, too: as well as doing his own sketching and clay modeling, Nattapat has an autoclave in his Bangkok workshop so that he can produce small runs of carbon fiber parts.
We’ll end by wishing Nattapat the best of luck for his new startup. He’s nailed the style and nailed the performance upgrades, making this a very promising start indeed. Slayer House Facebook | Images by KAATO Motorcycles via Bike EXIF https://ift.tt/2Mf9b0c October 19, 2019 at 12:25PM Leave a Reply. |
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