If anyone in the future does decide to follow this and read through the history, this is for you.
On June 8th I crashed my Ducati in Missouri. It was my fault, didn't notice a friends' brake light and came up on him pretty quick. I braked too hard and maybe had some target fixating going on. Anyway, I went down on the bike's left side. I ended up with a separated shoulder and the Monster had about the same.
I've since healed completely and I'm still in the process of "healing" the Duc. I wish I hadn't given up on this blog during the rebuild, because I've actually done some pretty cool things to her, and I can't wait to see the finished product. The before and after pictures should be incredible.
Some of the biggest mods: gold frame to black frame, silver wheels to black wheels, yellow tank/cowl/faring to matte olive green, Acewell 2853 speedo/tach, Danmoto exhaust. I changed a few other small things like front turn signals as well. Most of the headache has come in the form of finding cheap OEM replacement parts like the headlight, and wet-sanding the trellis frame.
I can already tell I'm going to find a tremendous amount of pride in the fact that I took it all the way down to the bare frame, and that I know every bolt on my machine. I was originally planning on selling her sometime this fall, to pursue a different bike. Now though, I think it will be hard to let go, and I may just end up modding it further to exactly what I want.
Here's a few pictures from the past couple of months:
