Raymond Roche

adie851

After owning this bike for almost 25 years now........the paintwork was looking a little tired. Rather than upset the provenance of the original bodywork, I decided to buy some replica bodywork and have it painted to replicate Roche's bike from the 1990 WSB season, the first year which Ducati won the championship. I hope you like it.....I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea...but hey ho....I fancied trying it out.

Cheers, adie851

Tric

Raymond Roche

Lovely job Adie, look forward to seeing it next time I'm over.

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BABA

Nice !!
Sponsors are made by stickers or painted ? (if they are stickers, where did you find them ?)

Now you need to paint your helmet like this...

And wear that t-shirt 😉

adie851

Tric wroteLovely job Adie, look forward to seeing it next time I'm over. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks Tric ,

How did the WDW trip go...good time ?

Cheers ,adie

adie851

BABA wroteNice !! Sponsors are made by stickers or painted ? (if they are stickers, where did you find them ?) Now you need to paint your helmet like this... And wear that t-shirt 😉

Thanks Baba......the chap who does paintwork for me makes them. He paints a lot of stuff for Ducati. Even some of the bikes what are in the Ducati factory museum in Italy. He does a lot of work for a lot of race teams. He's painted a few helmets for me also.

Tric

Raymond Roche

Very good Ade, couple of small dramas on both 888s ( ask Steve) but nothing major, Ohlins techs set up the bike for me, no charge. Covered just under 6000km by the time I got home, took the scenic route home through Andorra and the Pyrenees. Next time?

Paul

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adie851

Nice one mate ,glad you enjoyed it..... not seen Steve since he's returned.... tried to ring him but he was busy....no doubt he'll have a tale to tell....tee..hee....

Tric

He'll still be in bed 😉

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got2Lev8

adie851 wroteAfter owning this bike for almost 25 years now........the paintwork was looking a little tired. Rather than upset the provenance of the original bodywork, I decided to buy some replica bodywork and have it painted to replicate Roche's bike from the 1990 WSB season, the first year which Ducati won the championship. I hope you like it.....I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea...but hey ho....I fancied trying it out. Cheers, adie851

Excellent job! Very classy. Big fan of the '90 bike(s).

Robert

MarkT

Adie-

Very sweet-- at first glance it could easily pass for a RR. I think the low SP2 exhaust cans and V brackets along with the Ohlins and black calipers gives it the authenticity.

I am almost finished restoring my '89 Factory Works bike (with RR's name printed on the ECU). I am painting up new carbon bodywork at the moment to replace the original crashed bodywork shown in these pictures. I stripped the bike down to the frame - repainting the frame, rear hoop, and rear subframe last summer in my favorite white from House of Color which I was able to buy from Marvin's stash. I am not sure if I am going to paint in the original complete red #27 as ridden in '89 or to paint it like an early '90 Works bike. Either way I am not going to put RR on it even though from the printing on the ECU we can infer that RR rode the bike.

I only know of three of these early Works bikes that are complete-- one is #3 in the factory museum, one is in another Italian museum.

Hope you do not mind me for the slight HiJack.

adie851

Mark,

That looks mint..... absolutely cool.....I wondered what had happened to the real race bikes ? Have you actually rode the bike ...or are you going to......that is the ultimate track day tool.....!!!!

Cheers, Adie851

MarkT

adie851 wroteMark, That looks mint..... absolutely cool.....I wondered what had happened to the real race bikes ? Have you actually rode the bike ...or are you going to......that is the ultimate track day tool.....!!!! Cheers, Adie851

Hi Adie-

The motor runs very nice. I have not decided if I am going to bring it to the track or not.

This is one of the "real" factory race bikes. I am not sure if you are asking where the remaining factory Works bike went after each season- but this is a partial answer.

Ferracci in America seemed to have a tight relationship with the factory and was able to buy the bikes which the factory raced the season before. This is how this bike ended up in the US. It was raced at Daytona by Polen and then passed on to Jamie James for the '90 AMA season with an updated swing arm and a '90 paint scheme. This bike was sold to a rich collector at the end of the '90 season with an early Corse Factory motor (still has all of the paint number marks on the cam caps) and the original swing arm installed. This is rare because Ferracci would often part out his bikes at the end of the season. The few he did not part out- a number of them were sold to racers in Mexico and very few were sold to racers in the US for the next season.

In '91 he bought four upgraded Customer Racing bikes from the factory for the '91 season. Also in '93 he was able to buy Works bikes for the '93 season which Polen won. For '90, '92, and '94 it appears he bought one season old bikes from the factory. I know where a few of un-parted bikes from his race seasons ended up but not all of them. I own three of them.

This type of pass on of factory bikes to favored teams in Europe may of what happened to the other Factory bikes but I have no idea. Perhaps the Factory broke down most of them and only Ferracci was allowed to buy a number of them for each AMA season.

scott 888

Hi - Jack away Mark it's all good stuff.

Scott.

adie851

Hi Mark,

It's great to see you keeping the 851/888 corse race bikes in your collection. Are they all ex Ferracci bikes or are they customer Corse bikes ? Have you got any pictures of your other race bikes ? Look forward to your reply.Thanks.

cheers, adie851

Mr.R

Hi Adie,

Bike's looking great mate, but you really need to change the "Desmo" decals on the fairing to match the pukka Roche bikes.

Steve R