Nothing to post here… the “Eagle” works fine, and so does the duc, when ever I take her out..

Sorry for not posting anything for a long time..

There’s nothing going on here for the next 2 months, I’m away in Canada.

See you in June.

How’s this for a hockey puck under the side stand?

Thanks Juha!

Time to change it again.

and the type again - it’s knecht mahle KL145.

Also replaced the big green o-ring.

Next up: new thicker wiring for the battery and starter. Oh, and Iridiums (IXU27) are on the way from sparkplugs.co.uk.

The spider spring on my slipper clutch died, so off came the clutch. While there, I noticed a possible leak in the big axle seals.. they might need to be replaced. I also replaced the 2 small o-rings on the clutch rod.

After some googling around, the seals are as follow:

the big one:
46340477A [ 463.4.047.7A ] (old number)
93040341A [ 930.4.034.1A ] (new number)
size 75x95x12 in mm.

The small one:
46340269A [ 463.4.026.9A ] (old number)
93040351A [ 930.4.035.1A ] (new number)
size 35x47x7 in mm.

(before buying or anything, double check, these are only FYI!!)

I am planning to take the bike for valve adjustment again to the local authorised dealer. that’s where they were checked the last time and also replacement rockers were installed. The Tech at the dealer is very friendly, talks candidly about Ducati’s and knows them inside out. Highly recommendable. (even though nothing beats doing everything by yourself and saving a lot of money.. or, on the other hand - doing a lot of damage and ending up costing way more than what it would have originally cost.)

This does not yet look like it needs replacing?

I think it’s time to get active again so that spring doesn’t surprise us! (and I am not talking about the cracked spider spring that sits in my slipper clutch..)

Yesterday I finally changed the oil and filter..

Fuel filter is next, along with the clutch spring.

No pics.

Last Thursday I finished the season. I can still take her out, if the weather permits, but the forecasts don’t look good..

That’s 46617 km. When I started in May, it was something like 38xxx or 39xxx. I have to check my notes.

Now off to hibernation, expect a slower (if possible) pace of updates.

..or the next update might come pretty soon, but It could look like something VERY, VERY different. Like this or this..

A late summer ride to the archipelago. Temperature around 10 celsius, +/-3.

Waiting for the first ferry.

Here she comes.

Waiting.

This was as far as we got.
(actually, there was one more ferry we could have used, but that was 30 mins one way to an island with no other way out, and we would have have to wait hours for them. )

..without swimming.

Scenery.

On the way back, the second, smaller, ferry.

Just missed us… this thing was huge.

filling up the bikes and the riders.

Total 550km, ~10hrs.

Will have to do this again, with more time and a little better weather.

Due to recent complaints about the appearance of my bike, I had nothing better to do on a nice sunny August day, so I decided to clean her.

..nice scratch on the tank, btw.

Hopefully there’s still some warm days in September.

The Diablo Corsa lasted about 8000km. Pretty good, I’d say. (the front was on for only 5k km, still in good shape.)

The new ones are Metzeler Rennsport road, can be found pretty cheap from mandp.co.uk

also, the always necessary rear brake bleeding was done too.