Ducati Desmosedici RR Re-build Project Part 10 (Project 425) In 4K

Welcome to part 10, part 10 of Project 425, the Desmo Cedici restoration. How are you going Dan, alright? Yeah, I'm good, and you? Yeah, I'm good. I can see bits of the bike here today that I haven't seen for a long time. They've been on the shelves, tucked away for a few months. And we should set the scene and let people know what we're about to do today. You said to me off camera that by the end of today we're going to have a roll-in chassis. Yep. So that means with this bike, frame back on. Frame back on, forks in, wheels in. Swinging arm back in. Yes. Sounds like a lot of work. Nah, it'll be alright. Well, I know that in the time since we did that, the head rebuild last time, you've been incredibly busy and I've been away with the Bike World crew on a couple of press launches. Right, yeah. So hopefully while people are listening to my man flu voice, they can see pretty pictures on the screen of Chris on a KTM Super Duke, me on various bikes in various places, Las Vegas, loads of cool stuff. But as we've always said with this workshop, it's a live workshop. You've got bills to pay and jobs to do. So there's a little bit of the build that people have missed, which you think is probably the most boring bit, which is just putting the thing back together. Cleaning and bolting auxiliary parts back on the engine, not very exciting stuff. You've seen it all come apart anyway. So if people do want to see the bike going back together, they should just watch an old episode of us taking it apart and play it in reverse? Exactly. And it'll be going back in? Yeah. So you've reassembled the motor. People have seen the heads going back together. That was a key part that we know people were keen to see. The whole desmodronic valve train system and how that all works and all those expensive shims and overpriced gaskets, they're all back in. The motor is oil tight, good to go? Ready to go. Ready to run. Okay. Cool. Alright, so we are going to start where? We are... I'll tell you where I'm going to start. I am freezing. It's freezing in here. It's not. Where are we going to start? I have got man flu, yeah. Literally, we're going to put the chassis back on to the engine. Yep. And then slide the forks in it. Okay. All that kind of stuff really. I mean, we've got loads of wiring to do and all that, but yeah. Let's just call it wiring and do that with our hands. Yeah. If the cameras weren't here and I wasn't here, in terms of timeline, how long would it take you to have this bike from where we're at right now to the stage where you can put a key in and start the thing up? Probably take a couple of days, realistically. Okay, so two days' work without me getting in the way. Yeah. So, probably six months' work for the pair of us. Shall we start? Let's do it. I am a bit lined up. Okay. I've only... That's just a couple of turns, right? Yeah, one. Couple of turns again, Dan. Yes, please, mate. We are reassembling. We're reassembling all our... If you're going to put it in, tighten it up. You really don't want to put things in loose. You don't? Just tighten it up, because you'll end up forgetting about it. Okay. I won't, but you will. Of course. And then you know that it's nice and tight then. Now, obviously, with the chassis on, we're just going to torque up all the engine points. Yep. Frame mounts. Yep. So they've got to be at the right torque for flex and that kind of stuff. Yeah. So, yeah, we'll just do that now. Okay. Then, really, that's the chassis on. Obviously, we've got the swing arm and all that to assemble. I love how simple you're making it all look. Yeah, that's it. It's done, yeah. It's the chassis on. What was the hardest bit inside the motor, Dan? Definitely the valves. Yeah. They were a real pain. It's just really time-consuming. So many little fiddly bits. Yeah. And you had to loosely assemble and then disassemble to make the adjustment. Yeah. But it's all good, you know. Every day's a school day, so it's a learning curve. I've really enjoyed doing it. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. That's handy. Just calm down, mate. It's fine. We're all right. Now what we're really doing is just wiring up the main harness to the engine. So we've got, like, crank sensors, coils. Pictures, I don't know if you can see them, that Dan took, it feels like a lifetime ago. Yeah, it does. And now suddenly relevant again because we can use them as our reference points. Yeah, it's definitely handy to be able to see where things were March, so nearly a year ago. The danger is when you're on somebody else's phone, you end up seeing pictures of theirs that you just wish you didn't find, like these selfies that Dan's been taking. Dan, I don't know what you're up to in this one. What's going on there, mate? Sexy Deadpool. I don't know if you can hear that in the background, but the shutters on the workshop are rattling like crazy. It's probably picking up on the mic. It's the tail end of Storm Derek, or whatever it's called. Dennis. I don't know, it's windy out there. Obviously, being a V4, we've got four coils. Yeah. And where we've taken the engine out, I marked all the wiring. Yeah. Except for the coil plugs to the loom. Which are numbered anyway. Which are numbered off, basically, the chassis loom to the engine. Yeah. Because if you get them the wrong way around, the firing order's probably going to be wrong. Yeah. So we've got them all written down on the loom, which is handy. So I'm literally tracing the wires from the coils down. To the cylinder. To the correct plug on the loom. So not to the cylinder, to the correct plug on the loom. So this one here's number two, which we've just plugged in. Just double check that. Yeah, that's 20X020. Don't know if you can see that. So this number three, you might not be able to see it there, but that's the number that we're looking at. And upside down, number three. Which is this one down here. Right, so it's all just a little bit fiddly. Do you want to put the fork in? Yeah. While I'm doing this? Yeah, I'm standing around doing not a great deal of anything. Crack on, do. So, I'll get on with this. Try not to get in Dan's way. Now would be a good chance for me to remind everyone of our bromantic trip to the Nürburgring. To have these forks refreshed at the Öhlins European R&D facility. That was a cool trip, wasn't it? It was a cool trip, yeah. Yeah, highlights would be the laps of the Nürburgring, I guess. In the new Golf. In the new Golf R, and also just seeing what goes on in that kind of workshop. You can see that episode of the project somewhere up here, thanks to the magic of YouTube. Go on, a little bit more. Keep going all the way. I'm just going to spin it around so that the Öhlins badge is on the outside, is that alright? Look at that. Beautiful. Nice, Daniel. Right, it's coming up to flush now, keep going. About half an inch. Tiny bit more. Yeah, I'd say maybe a touch more and you're the same as the other one. This feels like a grown-up's job. Our front end. Our front end's all in. So now we can just do the mudguard. And that's it. Front wheel in. We've got this big carbon shroud that has to go in as well. Yeah, but we're going to do some cleaning up in there first. Yeah, we'll do a bit of polishing. Alright. Cool, mate. What do you want me to do next now then? Put the mudguard on there. Is that over the back? Yeah, mate. Happy with all that in there? It's alright now. Yeah. Made it look easy. I made it look easy. I struggled to lash the front mudguard in while you rewired it in five minutes. Brilliant. Okay, airbox. So that hose is there. Screw there with that one. Surely. Shall we make a joke about lubing stuff up, Dan? It's never going dry, mate. So they're going in? Yep. You ready? Yeah, I am. Front one's popped up. Yeah, it's popped. Got to be a bit careful because it's a carbon airbox. Everything's carbon, isn't it? Yes. Yards. Not far off at all. There you go. Alright. Spin that on. Yeah, just spin that on. Yep. We're in. Well, that was take 58 on that. You don't want to know the kind of swear words we've just heard coming out of Dan's mouth. I think I learnt a couple of new ones. You've got that, don't you? I've got the swing on, mate, yeah. I've got this collar in my hand. Is that what you're looking for? Spin it? Yeah, go on, spin it. Alright, cool. Magic. Right on, mate. So now we've got all the rear linkage and that all on. We'll remove the paddock stand. Or the other stand, should I say. That's it. That's all you, John. That can slide out of there, mate. Look at that. Fully self-supported. There's mine. It's basically ready to ride out, isn't it? Just like that, Dan. Pow. Pow, back to reality. That was quite a strange day, wasn't it? It might not look like we've achieved much, but at the same time, a couple of hours ago there was only an engine sat here. It's made me sweat today, but taking apart a bike is relatively easy. Assembling everything is a pain in the arse. Anyone can strip anything down, can't they? No, we've done well, mate. It's a motorbike, pretty much. It's been good. I quite like the fact that you were taking your phone out and having a look at some of the pictures that we took a year ago of parts as they were coming apart. Routing out the cables and all that kind of stuff, really. That's the main thing. I think if you remember to take pictures, you don't need to remember where the cables go. It's much easier to just do one than the other, isn't it? We've got a workshop manual, but it's just easier to flip through your iPhone, isn't it? So what's next? Aside from the obvious, we're looking at the fact that there's a rear wheel missing. Yeah, we're going to put new changing sprockets on here and just all them new tyres, obviously. Make sure we're going to strip the brakes, clean all the brakes up. And then really bleed everything up, do the cooling system. Job done, mate. Far up. It's quite a nice feeling, isn't it? Knowing, looking at the motor now, 100% that everything in there is as it should be. Whereas when we first started putting tools on this, we just didn't know. And there was that question over, you know, it's only done 1,000 miles, but it's been sat for so long. And now you can hand on heart and say, you know the motor's good. New head gaskets, the heads have been skimmed. We shouldn't have no problems, mate. No issues at all. Yeah, that's been a long day for me, quite a stressful one. I'm glad that we are not just over there, we're properly on the kind of homeward stretch here, aren't we? I'm excited now. One more episode in the workshop. And then hopefully the final episode, it'll be blue sky and we'll be outside. Doing wheelies, yeah? Doing massive wheelies. We'll see my new Fireblade review, yeah. Yeah.