Father & Son's Ducati 900ss Project - S3E3 Mint Customs "The Series"

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what you want to know okay it is healing very well thank you all for the kind messages and broken things that work and that just arrived. The final part is missing, but I found out that I can't click like that and I can't move, that's two things so far without stealing my bass, but really pushes or safety glasses, welcome back to Mink Customs, the

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is a free episode. the story of the NCR Ducati duel. I've been eating donuts for the past six months every day.

You know, happy now that yes, we've all worked hard and this 2003 Ducati 900. Hey guys, back to work, very good customer, my Nick Rhodes. I built a couple of bikes a few years ago, but a few years ago I built a 996 SPS Ducati in Frankie Keeley NC, our colors came up like a while ago after one of the other builds that were done but sold and I said we'll just build your bike however you want and he said only a calf racer has free rein, I do whatever I want, no problem, so I did it, I designed the bike, I got the donor bike and I cut the back of the bike off.

It started to be too much for me with the other things I had on the road too, so I thought I'd give the build to the kids, so the bike went to the kids store, I sat down with them and told them. He told him exactly what when he showed him my photos and the idea behind it was to build a calf racing version of his super bike. When he opened the gauge door, it had the Calf race version and the Superbike version, both in NCR colours, and that was it. I handed it over to them and the design brief was pretty straight forward, but I had specific things in mind and I told them not to mess it up, it's okay dad, don't worry, we'll do a good job, I promise I've got the bike.

On the bench, let's take a closer look because from the outside just looking at it it looks very rough. I don't think the bike could stay clean for long since it was new, but when we dug deeper into the bike we realized. It's a good bike, just a few little things that worried us, like the exhaust bolts were rotted so we were worried about taking them off the engine. The clutches, the clutch is completely ruined. The entire engine needs complete services. It takes a lot of hours. of work to try to make it look new again there are a lot of other little things that worried us but it was the perfect donor bike it's exactly what we needed.

I'm making some with mounting brackets to swivel, yes that works. Dude, you know, let it go, oh, I can't wait for the day when we can write this. It seems very far away at the moment, we have a lot of work ahead of us. Sorry, please go, it's not often we have to get the hammers out. but this bike is very bad so we are about to take out the hammers we need these pipes we can't afford a new exhaust system and a new cylinder head made possibly in the worst case scenario yes, I think in the best case we say that the cylinder head, the rest of this will fall off the cylinder head, it all looks nice and lovely and we took these bolts out without any problem and then we bought a new exhaust system and then they forgive us this part of the exhaust The pipe is stuck in the cylinder head The humidity is approaching.

Oh yes, we have a few more small battles to win on this

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, but the world is a fabrication and the subframe and swingarm are complete. We not only have this

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underway. five workbenches, something is happening and they all have a complete long-term rebuild. The old man and Lee, the engine carrier, have a couple of working Harleys. Thomas and I have a Harley, another Ducati and how could I forget the KTM? Project 300 two stroke, that's one way to save some money. I need to buy an engine. All of these reconstructions are future episodes on this channel.

Laughs, so make sure you subscribe. We have some amazing projects coming up. Shit, let's deactivate this Ducati 900. The frame has been censored with a layer of dust, the engine will be soda cleaned and rebuilt, but today we are rebuilding the suspension and Thomas is rebuilding the Brembo brakes. Oh, I'll be there and I'll be gone, don't get lost. Gregg is so much more now, it was really nice to have the old man designing the bike, so all we had to focus on was getting everything perfect, the manufacturing work, we designed the subframe, he was looking after the color scheme, I was working, after the paint job, I was taking care of the oval. design of the bike, we decided to make sure the engine was in good condition.

It had a new clutch. It had everything new on the motor, just belts, you name it, everything was new and since we were getting several orders for complete rebuilds, most of the complicated thing about building this bike was that we were building for our bikes at the same time. It's been a pretty stressful few weeks, but everything is coming together. Really nice aromas. It all came from the power decoders. The engine was ready. Pick the engine in the box art. and gently placed it on the bench, its wheels were reassembled, freshly powder coated, new discs, new tires, new bearings, calipers were rebuilt and refilled, a new exhaust system and end caps were installed They were specially made by Posh and Thomas, we chose the fatter back. tire we were able to get on this mom 300 in the middle of all this work we had a little open house day for friends and family thanks to everyone who came the paint arrived just in time for the opening there is so much that the old man had Take a look at close to what we were doing.

I really hope we don't disappoint you. He is a good customer. It has to be exactly how I would build it for him, therefore the job went to them. He was quite Hawkeye about what they were doing. but man, they took him out from behind, he looks absolutely incredible and when he came in and saw him for the first time he couldn't talk, he was a good mouthful, he turned out very very well, he rode very well and he is very happy so that's the main thing . we all rode it yeah yeah yeah it's tearing the eyes out of the bike beautiful it was fast I only did 30 miles an hour so after six weeks 200 hours of work this Ducati 900 is complete and ready to go multiple protests, the different, it's just little things like when you sit on a well made bike, you just get that feeling, everything feels good, the throttle feels good, the clutch feels good, the brakes feel too high, everything works As it should, it sounded good, there is a problem, like with every bike we build, we have to compromise. him away after we've done it, why can't we keep everyone?

Tom. I wish we weren't poor so we could keep more bikes, oh shoot.