# Ducati's "Frameless" Motorcycle Patent Application

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ducatis-frameless-motorcycle-patent-application/251076>\
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [March 23, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ducatis-frameless-motorcycle-patent-application/251076 "2010-03-23T20:33:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![RocketPunch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rocketpunch/32/6429_2.png) [@RocketPunch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RocketPunch)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ducatis-frameless-motorcycle-patent-application/251076/3 "2010-03-23T21:02:26Z")

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> [@Who else would drive a baby blue neon with a jaws hood for a week for this car..](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-else-would-drive-a-baby-blue-neon-with-a-jaws-hood-for-a-week-for-this-car/30208/67):
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> About time in my opinion. In most sport bikes of recent the motor is already acting as a stressed member in one way or another, whether it be in a bracing fashion for the frame, or a suspension/swingarm mount(or both). It was only a matter of time before one of the manufactures got off their ass and ditched the frame all together, merging the technology with integral fluid reservoirs and the like 🙂
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> I like it! I guarantee you’ll see this merged with prepeg carbon tech and see some insanely light prototype released very soon 🙂

Behold! ~\> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw1zA8v\_o7E](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw1zA8v_o7E)

Video was taken at Daytona in 1988 of a Norton Cosworth :bowdown:bowdown

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