Single Sided Swingarm

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Wow- never paid enough attention to notice how they built that. Pretty cool!!

Just trying to figure out where the actual weight difference is since it is grouped differently.

Example- if you pulled the sprocket and rotor off the duc arm, how much closer would it be to the CB arm.

Likewise if you pulled the rotor and sprocket off the cb tire/wheel, then compared.

Piece by piece is the best way to pinpoint the lard.


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It's a nice piece of engineering indeed. Thanks for the nice pic, "Cafe Project"

I would assume the ducati arm must be a bit heavier anyway, as it has to support some bending and torsion loads, while the honda is almost only under tensile/compressive loads.

Of course, this extra stiffness required for the ducati arm is achieved by geometry (increased cross section) and not just adding material, but being both hollow, the Honda is smaller so it will be lighter.

Then you save from going from a dual spring/damper to a monoshock (plus rocker and droplink).

A very nice design form ducati that will make that CB not only lighter, but also look great!