A YouTube star with over 80,000 followers has collaborated with a Swindon business for her next big project.

Kate Ralph, known online to her followers as UsernameKate, first joined YouTube in 2012 and has since built up a huge fanbase with her motorcycle content where she restores, reviews and rides motorbikes.

Now, the young female biker has collaborated with a Swindon business for her next major project of restoring a Ducati bike.

According to Kate, her obsession with Ducatis started young when in 2010, she wrote off her first big motorcycle, and while hunting for a new one came across a 2002 Ducati 750s on sale.

“I found my dream bike at the time on eBay, it was about £2,000 and I fell in love,” she said.

“It wasn't a standard one, it had all its fairings ripped off to turn it into a mean-looking Streetfighter instead of the sports bike it started life as.

“Growing up, I was obsessed with Radical Ducati builds from the likes of Walt Siegl and always wanted one as a forever bike."

Over a decade later, Kate stumbled across exactly what she was looking for at Swindon's own Budget Bikes, based on Manchester Road.

YouTube star 'UsernameKate' has been obsessed with motorbikes since she was a small childYouTube star 'UsernameKate' has been obsessed with motorbikes since she was a small child (Image: Mazemedia)

“It was the best example 750S that I could find on the Market,” she revealed.

“The buying process with the guys at Budget Bikes had been absolutely plain sailing

“I dealt with a salesman called Steve who was very attentive and would send me Whatsapp pictures of the bike close-up, so I knew what I was getting before I travelled the three-and-a-half-hour journey down to collect.”

In the first part of her video series with Bikesure, the Youtuber was keen to highlight the assistance she received when picking up the bike as well as Steve’s expertise.

Having restored parts of the classic motorbike from Swindon, 'UsernameKate' then drove her new ride to Italy, where the Ducati Museum is based, and filmed the whole adventure as a three-part mini-series.

The biking fanatic is now actually giving the restored Ducati motorbike from Swindon away to one lucky winner, in a competition teaming up with Bikesure.

“I honestly love the thing and don’t want it to be given away,” she joked to her 84,000 YouTube subscribers and 40,--- Instagram followers, thanking them for all the interest in the competition.