Miscellaneous Cool Italian Bikes

[fastwin]

AWESOME pipes on the Benelli 6!! Bet that sounds increbible at full bark! Had a friend ages ago with a Honda CBX, I forget the pipe he had on it but I will never forget the sound.

[1KDS]

cool concept

[Betty]

Early Desmosedici??  

Technically I don't think the Apollo was either a Desmo or a sedici ... and I am not trying to be a smart arse but I did get a laugh out of the suggestion that the predecessor for the Desmosedic MotoGP bike was designed as a competitor to Harley.

I think I know what you meant though and it would have been interesting if it had gone into production ... Ducati may be a completely different company now ... or they may have ceased to exist many moons ago.

[Betty]

Beautiful. Hadn't seen one until my visit to the museum.



I saw this one first in Pisa and thought WOW, that's different in an awesomely cool way. But when I later went to the museum I had one of those 'ohh I get it now' kinda moments.

[ducatiz]

Technically I don't think the Apollo was either a Desmo or a sedici ... and I am not trying to be a smart arse but I did get a laugh out of the suggestion that the predecessor for the Desmosedic MotoGP bike was designed as a competitor to Harley.

I think I know what you meant though and it would have been interesting if it had gone into production ... Ducati may be a completely different company now ... or they may have ceased to exist many moons ago.

I think you missed the  in my comment? 

The Apollo engine had nothing to do with the 'sedici design at all, the Apollo was pushrod (!) and a 2v setup, and a POS from all acounts....

[Travman]

I think I know what you meant though and it would have been interesting if it had gone into production ... Ducati may be a completely different company now ... or they may have ceased to exist many moons ago.

According to the article in Motorcycle Classics, "the inability to source tires capable of harnessing such a big-engined and heavy bike deprived 1960s bikers of the thrills of riding the first of the next generation of 4-cylinder sport bikes."  It could have been a success and it would have made Ducati a different company for better or worse.  I like seeing points like that in history. 

"one half of the engine would, and did, provide a superb basis for a range of 90-degree V-twin models. Five years after the Apollo project’s demise, Taglioni proved the worth of that assertion when he designed Ducati’s first OHC 750 V-twin, closely inspired by the Apollo’s architecture."

http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/motorcycle-reviews/ducati-v4-apollo.aspx

[Markus]

93 Ducati 900ss

Holy heck I'm in lust.

[pennyrobber]

That SS is beautiful. This thread is great. 

[Blue]

Holy heck I'm in lust.

That SS is beautiful. This thread is great.  

#1 for both comments.

That SS makes me want one (though, I wanted one before I saw this bike).

[Travman]

Moto Guzzi S3

[Travman]

Tastefully customized 1100 by Fire Starter Garage (http://www.firestartergarage.it/index-moto.html)

[Travman]

1977 MV Agusta Magni 860

http://www.bikeexif.com/1977-mv-agusta-magni-860

[ducatiz]

1977 MV Agusta Magni 860

http://www.bikeexif.com/1977-mv-agusta-magni-860

derby

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=34105.msg615693#msg615693

[dutchy73]

All these Guzzi postings are making me ache for one of my own.

[DucatiTorrey]

I am very slowly (who am i kidding, its not slow) falling in love with Moto Guzzi.

we need a drooling smiley faced guy* something like  , move the tear, and give him this mouth