Friday, January 15, 2010

What do you mean, no Tires?

While I was searching on the ducatipaso.org forum I also discovered that Michelin does not make 16 inch tires for the 750 Sport anymore.

You could either try to fit a different profile and width of newer tires or perform a 17 inch wheel conversion.

The tire swap was not the ideal solution. In order to perform the 17 inch conversion you had to purchase new rims, brake rotors, brake calipers and somehow get everything to fit. I was busy at the time and did not want tackle the ignition system swap and the wheel conversion myself.

Oh and also the wheel conversion was not going to be cheap either.

There has been three times I have allowed other people to work on my bike and two of those times the results have not been good. This incident is the second time.

The first time I had just purchased a new 2001 748 Ducati and had to perform the 600 mile service to maintain the warranty. When I dropped the bike off at the shop I asked the mechanic to please clean and re-lube the chain for me.

When I picked up the bike the mechanic had just sprayed new chain lube on top of the dirty chain.

The second time is approaching rapidly.

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