School me: Elefant (E900)

[ungeheuer]

What's that mean?  Banjos?  or some oddball didgeridoo tunes?

Remember, our South is your North relative to proximity of the equator.  Therefore... my geocultural locational equivalent is... Maine.

Gotta go to outback Queensland for the banjos 

He teases and taunts us from his enclave way down in the Southern region of a Southern Australian state. Way way down South.

I'm not teasing.  I just don't know. 

Waiting for Ducatiz to enlighten me with his Elefantine knowledge 


 

[koko64]

Blue with UDForks would be one of the later carbed 750/900 models Tiz? Checked out one of the last 750s a week ago, the metallic blue model. Nice.

Actually, I dont mind some good banjo playin', an underated instrument imo.
But then, I'm a country boy.

[ducatiz]

All the 900 models were carbed except for the last year iiic.  The first ie bike with a ducati 900 was the gran canyon.

The 900s are really different bikes from the early models imho.

[koko64]

I thought the first injected 900 was the 1990 E900ie Lucky Explorer? It ran through to '93 including GT variants and then came the long manifold Mikuni carbed E900s in '93/94?
The LE 900ie used injection a year before the 907. Spose that makes it the first aircooled injected model.

[ducatiz]

nope, you're right.  i keep thinking it was the GC  because i've never seen one in person, they were not imported to the US IIRC.

Europe got all of them, they are still very popular in benelux for some reason.  there is an Elefant group that has a "treffen" every year.  a few dozen crotchety mahouts camping somewhere in the Alps.

[koko64]

I've seen their website, real crusty adventurer types, very staunch .
They come from all over Europe including across/under the channel.

[ducatiz]

For reference:

Elefant "Old style"

350 and 650 (1984-1987) (also 350, looked the same)
The main difference other than cc was the clutch.  The 350 models came with a cable clutch slave and wet plates.  The 650 had the same hydraulic clutch as the Ally and dry plates.


650 and 350 both came in red too.


750 (1988-1990) (with Lucky Strike livery) MONOFARO


750 Lucky Strike BIFARO


Elefant "later style"  

E900AC (1992-)






Custom job with old style donor bike.. (I LIKE THIS)