And so it goes on… the Ducati was hurled into the back of Ferret’s van as he happened to be passing and had an hour free.
Well, to be brutally frank, it was he who suggested the project in the first place and in his own words: “I have a moral responsibility seeing how I conned you into this!” And SWMBO was more than a little pleased to see the paralysed twin hot-footing it off the patio where, apparently, it had blighted her view of the garden for far too long. It’s now safely away from view in an industrial unit where surgery can begin. Sean Allen, who has taken on the build, immediately had the rolling wreck on a surface table once that sea anchor of an engine had been liberated. He was shocked at just how heavy it was, remarking: “I can lift the Suzuki TS400 motor with one arm but the Ducati requires two and a lot of grunting!” This weight loss alone bodes well for the forthcoming Italian/Japanese hybrid single.
