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Tired of starting issues with your DB?

 
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SpikeC



Joined: 20 Aug 2013
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Location: Portland, Oregon

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 12:02 am    Post subject: Tired of starting issues with your DB? Reply with quote

First let me state that I have no interest in this company, they are not associated with me in any way, and I have nothing to profit from recommending them.
I am a happy bordering on fanatical owner of a DB5R, and I was bothered by the dance required to get it running. As is the case with many Ducati engines it would fire and die repeatedly, eventually sputtering to life. I decided to try a course that some regard as ridiculously expensive and a rip off of innocent moto owners, namely the Motolectric HICAP starter upgrade. It consists of fancy pants wires, terminals and insulation. My bike now starts right up as a modern motor should.
He didn't have a kit for the Bimota (duhhh) so he had me take a bunch of measurements and asked me a bunch of questions and the kit fit perfectly.
I cannot recommend this mod too highly, it really transformed my bike!
The web site is:

http://www.motolectric.com/products/hicap.detail.html
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Jonny B Bad



Joined: 05 Dec 2009
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Location: NE London

PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:48 pm    Post subject: Dodgy starting Reply with quote

My 6r was a reluctant starter, which I put down to the big bore. Fitted the Motolectric fandangle (if you're only educated to post-graduate level, this is a technical term with which you will not be familiar) and it now starts on the button.

Good product which deserves a wider audience.
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CNC



Joined: 19 Jul 2013
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Location: Slovenia

PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

On all 2 valve Ducatis it is good to change starting wires after few years... I tried everything on may M900 (fuses, contacts, little e-boxes...). But simple change of wires for thicker diameter works... Starts like new.
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Desmo_Demon



Joined: 19 Sep 2011
Posts: 240
Location: Easley, SC, USA

PostPosted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CNC wrote:
On all 2 valve Ducatis it is good to change starting wires after few years... I tried everything on may M900 (fuses, contacts, little e-boxes...). But simple change of wires for thicker diameter works... Starts like new.


This is a common issue with many of the earlier Ducati motorcycles. I forgot the name of the company, but they offered kits for many of the bikes. I had issues with my 1998 Ducati ST2 wanting to turn over and upgrading the starter cables helped tremendously.
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