The Design This one comes from way back in 2001 When just like every other designer it seems now, I went all 'retro'. I vented my retro spleen on the original Ducati SS 750 from the early '70s. Funnily enough, last year Ducati had the same idea! My SS2 has a translucent fairing and stripe running front to back. It covers the vertically stacked modular headlight assembly, runs across the top of the fuel tank, and on to cover the ducktail and tailight assembly. This echos the translucent stripe on the tank of the original model SS 750, as well as making the fairing appear less important than the other body work elements. There are plenty of things "borrowed" from the old SS such as the slit vents in the sidecovers and the severe bubble of the front fairing. There's also the rounded ducktail. Some elements are more to do with what an SS would be in a modern world. I think an SS for the '00s would be a classy street machine, with attitude coming courtesy of elements like huge, ornately drilled front disks, and stubby chromed collector/muffler assembly slipped under the engine like a Buell. Upright Katana-like split-faced clocks accentuate the narrow look, and the single-sided swingarm is fashioned from round section pipe, similar to the MH900e show bike. A bell crank mounted transversly compresses a single shock slotted in next to the swingarm.

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