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@@Ducky-Bob hey thank you! You are not alone in that feeling, most brilliant neurodivergent minds that are forced into our production line economy try and find value in lots of different areas. Your comment is motivation for me to edit and upload more videos, I have 3-4 at least that I have filmed the entire project, completed them, and I just haven’t edited them. Stay tuned, and don’t feel paralyzed - we can’t do everything, but that doesn’t mean we should stop doing as much as we can!

@@grn4rnr yup! I have been able to get away with a lot on the stock tires. I do plan to swap for more aggressive tires but wanted to wait until I burned up the stock ones, and they have held up like champs despite all the rolling burnouts I have done on gravel roads.

I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t work for the company so I can’t speak to their delivery timeframes, but I imagine it takes awhile to ship to South Korea. I would contact their customer support to see if they have an update for you. I’m sorry you have been waiting, but I can tell you the skid plate is worth the wait. You will love it.

Great question, I would say that the volume ranges anywhere from “not noticeably louder” to 10% louder, give or take. Really not bad. The heat is no different in my experience. It can still be hot and radiate heat, but it did that with the stock skid plate too. The airflow through the skid plate holes really must help with wicking the heat away underneath so it isn’t trapped with nowhere else to go but up. After many scrapes and bumps, and an easy removal for an oil change since I installed it, it’s been 10/10 - would recommend.

Hey thanks for watching, and I agree that Duc’s are very cool! But quick question - ‘As if’ what?

Mine has the same attachment points/angles as the 2019. If you watch the video at the 4:07 mark, you can see I have the bolts on the left side, and I put my foot on the frame while pulling the rack to spread it wider and use my other free hand to get the bolt in place and started. I can’t promise that all of them are the exact same measurements, but I promise mine didn’t look like it was going to fit either.

@@ADHDiy_Guy Thanks for the reply, I may have a different rack manufacturer here in England, Foot on the frame was never gonna work for this model So I put a car Jack inside it to spread the bars out. 👍🏼 Thanks for the post, I would have given up!

There should be no reason I can see for them to be different. I have not compared them side by side, but it should be the same. I feel like a cheaper option would be to have the front fender wrapped with a black vinyl wrap instead of buying one direct from Ducati though. Good luck!

thanks for the reply, here in England it was cheaper to buy them from Ducati than get them wrapped actually! Btw They do fit! So I’m working my way through your other mods now👍🏼

I’m really sorry to hear the parts you ordered haven’t fit. What year is your bike?

I ended up using a KTM pressure switch. It was for all models.

Yes I did, and I even included it in the video! If you watch from the beginning of minute 8 of the video, I show the new “stop” I fashioned. Pretty simple, no fancy fabrication needed.

yeah not sure why I missed that - probably skipping around a bunch. Really great video. Thank you again!

Been there done that. New switch failed week 1.

Let’s see if this link actually posts. a.co/d/eoWZohs I was going to say that TH-cam doesn’t let you post links as a content creator until you reach at least 100 subscribers, but then I saw I am at 101! So we should be all good.

I should have fought for it a bit more, as I also did had mine activated with a regular service/oil change. I hope folks that are thinking of doing this mod see your comment so they can make the same argument. As far as the footpegs, I hope I didn’t mislead you to buy them with my video! I got them for our TW200 but my wife didn’t like them. I had to take my cutoff wheel and grind them down on each side, as well as flatten the angled end a little in order for them to fit the Ducati. I probably weakened them but so far they have held up - I bring my oem pegs with me in my bag any time I go off road just in case.

@@ADHDiy_Guy No you're good on the foot pegs! I see how you modded them but the ones they sent me simply wouldn't. I know how to weld and modded the rear brake pedal so i'll probably just do the same to the stock pegs.

And since you already have the heated grips activated on your bike, you won’t have to pay the $80 activation fee again! Good luck.

Hahaha, I have thought about it but honestly I really don’t do much highway riding where I am sitting at a consistent speed for a period of time. If a throttle lock company wants to sponsor me by sending me product to try I would be happy to!

It was much easier than you might think. Just buy a nice big plant from a nursery (for the pot), and make a cardboard template before cutting the plastic and you should be able to get 2-3 cutouts from a big enough pot. Good luck!

That’s why I have spent money on protection mods! So it can stay a work of art. No paint or body work was damaged in the making of this video, don’t worry!

Safe riding amigo! @@ADHDiy_Guy

Thanks! I wouldn’t say we have put it through the “ringer” since we aren’t great at riding off road yet but we have taken it off road a handful of times since the skidplate has been installed and it has handled some tree roots and rocks getting kicked up no problem. The TW has even run into a tree during a hill climb and gotten stuck on the skidplate edge, and I don’t think it has shown any weakness yet. It is a beefy plate, in my opinion it holds its own against any of the other well known brands.

thanks a lot for the info! very helpful@@ADHDiy_Guy

Haha, no! It is not that hard for a couple reasons first, I am not good at riding off road. Just getting into it after 12 years of pavement only riding. Also, this was the hardest day of riding I have had on the Sled by far. There were a lot of invisible baby head rocks that blended in with the red rock, and I was nursing an unrelated knee injury going into that day of riding. It’s a great bike combo. The Desert Sled is a ton of fun until you drop it, then it is heavy but not impossible to pick up.

I did a test ride on a ‘21 DS today. I’ll pretty sure I’m going to pull the trigger on it tomorrow. Looking forward to making our own DS/TW memories!

If you make any videos, I will watch them!

Yes it was, but it was my own fault. There are two mounting bolts that hold it to the frame and I only put one of the bolts back when I installed the skid plate. I found the 2nd bolt in my garage and was able to tighten it back in place. I have to remove the footpegs to get my Allen wrench into place for the 2nd bolt.

Thanks! I’m pretty sure the dirt is where it belongs! It’s funny, when I was calling Ducati dealerships to secure a Fasthouse, I had a salesperson laugh at me saying nobody took their Desert Sled off road. I guess I’m nobody!

Nothing wrong with cheap upgrades that are actually functional, I brought my sled used with all kinds expensive upgrade already installed, but some is just down right over priced and serve no purpose, some I actually installed the stock parts back on, like the Ducabike fuel cap which needs a separate cheap looking key to open, Evotech skid plate, I feel the stock plate actually has more coverage, and the Evotech tail tidy, it provide no mud coverage at all, Evotech handgaurd that looks like it has a weak point when crash

@@jonchaochao4567 exactly! I really don’t have a problem spending more when there is an actual increase in value, like the ACD Racing skid plate was well worth the cost because of the robust coverage it provides, but the hand guards and my homemade rear fender works brilliant, and nobody can tell unless you touch it that it was cheap.

What doesn’t make very much sense? Installing a skid plate? My voice? My instructions? How could it be better?

Can you elaborate? I know what trail braking is, and use it, but I know there were a few corners I overshot or got a false nuetral in that made it into this video. Can you share what you saw/time stamps to elaborate?

Hey thank you, that’s a big compliment! I’m just trying to make real content that actually helps people with their projects (or that are fun for me) and not pander to the algorithms. Any feedback or advice for this novice video maker would be greatly appreciated.

love it not a sellout to the algo! (TOP 10 MODS DUCATI DOESN'T WANT YOU TO DO!!!!!!!) lol@@ADHDiy_Guy

You are welcome! I know I am not the only one who has had this problem, so I wanted to make the job seem more in reach for the average driveway mechanic.

I believe so, but an easy way to check is to take off the cover on the right side underneath the gas tank and the wires should run right under the cover. They will have the “heated grips” stickers right on the wires. If you see that, you should be golden!

It’s made by ACD Racing. If you are in the US, I got a 10% off discount code to give out since I bought one of the first ones from the US distributor. It’s “PROTECT10” on ACDRacingUSA (dot) com It’s been solid so far, and I have gone down a few times. It’s not mounted to the engine, all the mounting points are through the frame.

Thank you 😋

Hey! Keep making good products and I will gladly promote them! Could I interest you in a sponsorship agreement? I will gladly install and review any parts you want to send my way!

@@ADHDiy_Guy Thank you very much for your reply. I found that you have two motorcycles? Could you tell me the year of them? I would like to make a record. We will develop relevant models of accessories in the future, please help us review them.

My Ducati Scrambler Desert is 2022, and the Yamaha tw200 is also 2022, but that should be pretty much the same since 2001.

@@ADHDiy_Guy Okay, thankyou very much.

Not noticeably at all, I was expecting it to be at least a little bit louder and was just hoping for “quieter than the ricochet plate” and honestly it is probably the same as stock because the sound has somewhere to escape to. If it is louder, you would need another tw200 right next to it for comparison in order to even notice.

@@ADHDiy_Guy just ordered one thanks your video sold me

You won’t regret it! Let me know how you like it once you get it installed!

Was going to ask about the noise as well. Thanks!

I agree! Of the 8 bikes we have owned together, this is our favorite combo of bikes so far.

@@ADHDiy_Guy The desert sled look like such a fun bike to me. I already know the tdubs is fun

Let’s see if TH-cam lets me comment a link, here is the Amazon posting for the one I bought but there are a bunch of sellers with the same one. Motorcycle Luggage Rack a.co/d/iBoeRRA

dang it, it’s. no longer 18 bucks. i would’ve messed with it for that price. oh well

@@spoonf20c I agree that the $18 price point made it a no brainer, but now that I have tested it under load, I would pay $75 for it.

It was a great time, the video can only do it so much justice.

Thanks! Yeah I was surprised as well to learn about the activation cost, but it is very convenient to have the OEM controls, so hopefully this video can help save some people money with their Scramblers.

Not me seen your video to late ordered ducati ones already 😭