Punter's corner - a place to drool over bikes we'd like to own (but can't)

[RED]

My day is now ruined...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1980-DUCATI-DARHMA-SUPERSPORT-8969-ORIGINAL-MILES-MINT_W0QQitemZ230431713090QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item35a6cce742#v4-35

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1965-DUCATI-250-SCAMBLER-CONCOURS-RACE-BIKE-JEWEL_W0QQitemZ230432341816QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item35a6d67f38#v4-35

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1974-DUCATI-750-GT-RESTORED-JEWEL-24K-MILES_W0QQitemZ230432488661QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item35a6d8bcd5#ht_942wt_1166

[Duc L'Smart]

I assume that you have credentials for operating such machinery?  

Truck & 2 bike Kendon trailer 

[Pinocchio]

Never seen the Vyrus/Tesi before?

But I don't understand the top bike, which has what looks like an oil cooler behind front wheel (fine and dandy) but also a radiator mounted low on the side (don't low side!) - It appears to be a radiator and has blue tubing and bent tubing, but notice, the alternator side cover is an air-cooled and not watercooled side. So its appears not to be based on an ST2 water-cooled motor, and not sure what pumps the coolant?  Perhaps its a secondary oversized oil cooler, but the line size seems wrong. Something has to disperse the heat on a 984, that's for sure.

Note the inscription on the front swingarm (front swingarm?!? did I just say that?): "983C³.4V" - It's a Desmoquattro water pumper, I think, but bedamnedifIknow where a 982 cc 4-valve Ducati engine came from....

[junior varsity]

I see now that its a 4V, but that doesn't lend any additional info as to where it might be pumping from. I see no waterpump, just some odd tubing going sideways across the alternator cover. It looks like that bike would be a REAL pregnant dog to work on. More so than nearly any other DB-series Bimota that could be serviced at a Ducati dealer without much need for a shop manual.

[Pinocchio]

It is an odd Duc, to be sure....

[junior varsity]

[hiero]

maybe this vid will help a bit: Vyrus la Filosofia

[Pinocchio]

Nope, sorry....that didn't help a bit, I'm afraid I'm still clueless.

[♣ McKraut ♣]

if it wasn't for the headlights and handlebars, i wouldn't be sure which was was front.

also, that dude's spectacles are weird.

[Pinocchio]

Currently offered on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1974-DUCATI-450-RT-RESTORED-MINT-VERY-RARE-LOW-RES_W0QQitemZ230432461584QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item35a6d85310#ht_500wt_1092

Correct restoration, as far as I can tell. That is a desmodromic 450. Don't know what I'd do with it.

Now, if i found a 1974 450 Desmo:


it would be all over.

[Duc L'Smart]

nice lookin' 748

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2001-Ducati-748-Custom-Built-Superbike-w-30k-Invested_W0QQitemZ180463338312QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item2a04740348

[fastwin]

Currently offered on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1974-DUCATI-450-RT-RESTORED-MINT-VERY-RARE-LOW-RES_W0QQitemZ230432461584QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item35a6d85310#ht_500wt_1092

Correct restoration, as far as I can tell. That is a desmodromic 450. Don't know what I'd do with it.

Now, if i found a 1974 450 Desmo:


it would be all over.

I know damn sure for a fact that the brick under the sidestand is not factory stock! Nor is the seat.

[Pinocchio]

I know damn sure for a fact that the brick under the sidestand is not factory stock! Nor is the seat.

Well, of course that's not the original seat. The original seat did not provide storage space for a brick.

[Pinocchio]

Time for a trip to Big Bend!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1994-Cagiva-Lucky-Explorer-900cc_W0QQitemZ300395632002QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item45f0f99582#ht_500wt_1092

http://tinyurl.com/CagivaLuckyExplorer

Is 45K too many miles for a Cagiva? Naaaahhh!

[Pinocchio]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Fully-Built-2005-Ducati-749r-1198-1098-999-749-r-s-999r_W0QQitemZ250577024713QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_motorcycles?hash=item3a578df6c9#ht_20040wt_1077