When a rough 90s Ducati 900 SS with upgraded suspension appeared on Marketplace at a price too good to ignore, Matt Coulter of Sticky’s Speed Shop jumped in the van. He factored that, with a minor tidy, the Ducati would make the perfect daily runner, with the potential to pull double duty as a track hack. Not a snowball’s chance in hell.
It’s a tale as old as time. A serial builder purchases a new machine, with a faint promise to themselves to keep it stock. But once your eyes recover from the lightning-bolt assault you see before you, and you can see beyond the peacocking paint job, you’ll notice that this Ducati 900 SS is a significant leap beyond “a minor tidy.”…