Oh yeah, I see you have no cush drive either. I figured out that Ducati cush drive parts and an adapter would fix the issue. I have the adapter penciled out, but never got all the measurements.

I actually just ran into a guy when I bought my TIG welder last month, that can make the adapter for me. He works exclusively on motorcycles too, so he was into it. I got his contact information for when I want to tackle the adapter.

The Ducati parts were this:
Ducati Monster Rear Hub Cush Drive Sprocket S006919 101B M900 TT TT1 TT2 Ahrma | eBay
and the rubber "cush" parts
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Duca...9IJ03nC8HeyVpA

Lets see if this picture posts. The Ducati cush drive that would be adapted looks similar to the one pictured, although the one pictured below is for a single sided swingarm.

RC Component did in fact make a cush drive for thier wheels. I did spend some time searching for one and for the life of me, I couldn't find one. I was told I would be better off making one.

http://sprocketcenter.com/media/cata...hyperflex6.jpg

Is it a Ram air bike?


If so, if you ever have the carbs off and stripped Im sure a few would like to have close up photos and and carb setup specs...... You know, just if you are bored some day. LOL

For science :)

Yes it is set up for ram air. Carbs are one thing I don't have the confidence to mess with. Plus the guy I got from said he recently did service on them. Sorry I'm a chicken sh!t. Hahaha.

All you have to do is pull the bottom, top and stack on the carbs. Then put it back together.

What could go wrong? LOL

Yeah taskmasta. Get hot. I think going into this purchase you should have recognized you owed this community a comprehensive, well documented tear down detailing every modification, component and fastener with lots and lots of pictures, a thoroughly researched history and some type of abstract of the why's and wherefores.

One does not simply buy this for themselves. Not and tell this board about it anywho.

Working on it. Already made contact with Rodger Ditchfield to pick his brain.

Again with this Roger Ditchfield guy. What a random segue. I've had a SuperHawk for over two years, my buddy owned it for several years before me and my screen name is VTR1000F fer crissake. Whadda ya wanna know?

The one thing I don't know, did it come as pictured or did you get any bodywork with it?

Some words from Rodger.

Thank you for the additional photos and info
I am almost certain that this is an ST2 racebike which definitely makes it pretty rare.
I also think that it was originally built by me in my workshop in the UK.
It would be interesting to find out how it got to the US and previous owners. If you could get that info I may be able to tell you more about it.
I am still trying to contact the guys who have the spare ram air set ups. I will get hold of them soon.
Regarding the carbs, Moriwaki made special magnesium carbs for the ST2 &ST3 complete with special jet kits. You may well have a set on your bike but not every customer bought the carbs as they were expensive. They are like gold dust and sell for far more than you have paid for the whole bike!! If you can show me some close up photos of the needles I can tell you if you have Moriwaki carbs. I am looking for markings just below the top of the needle which will read either Q, Q1 or Q2. The fact that the carbs have the Moriwaki aluminium air velocity stacks points to the fact they are Mori carbs. The Moriwaki airbox does not require an air filter. The last set of these carbs that came on the market fetched more than $2000.00 USD!!
I built four ST2 bikes that competed in the British Superbike “Production” (now Superstock) under “Holiday 18/30” sponsorship and one of these bikes is unaccounted for at the moment

I just read about these special carbs. Apparently, these carbs were almost identical to stock carbs, except for the fact they were made from magnesium for light weight. I read these were mostly hand made pieces and the reason they were so expensive. I think those were Roger's words that I read on the UK site. I'll search for a link for you to read it as well.

so just the same dies as the normal carbs, poured with magnesium instead and then finished with other machining operations? very cool

any closeup pictures of the carbs will tell if they were die made. I'd imagine the "handmade" sections are rather than a machine doing the through work on holes within the carb bodies like on the production Superhawk line, a single person did these sets of carbs

I found the information from Roger D. back on 8/28/12

So, maybe this Roger guy knows a thing or two.

Or Three!

Drool, drool,drool.