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1973 Ducati 750 Sport

In Italy, Sport by AbhiLeave a Comment

Restored (and for sale by) DB Cycles, this Ducati 750 Sport is claimed to be very correct, and it looks great. Not much information is given besides the components you’d expect to see in this bike – Scarab brakes, Borrani rims, Conti exhaust, and Dell’Orto carbs, but for an asking price of nearly 50G’s you won’t be buying this bike …

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1973 Honda CR750

In Japan, Race by Abhi5 Comments

Compare this to the previous post of a CB750 chopper – talk about two different ways a bike can be modified! After Honda’s victory at the 1970 Daytona 200, they sold 200 race kits that would turn a CB750 into a CR750 racer. Those kits cost $10,000 back in the day, which would roughly equate to $61,000 now.

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2005 BMW R1200ST

In Germany, Touring by Abhi8 Comments

The BMW R1200ST was the short-lived successor to the R1100RS/R1150RS. Considered by some to be one of the best sport-touring bikes ever made, this bike was an absolute commercial failure in the US. I’d pin that on two factors: first, this bike overlapped too much with the RT and the GS. Second (and more importantly)…it’s hideous. Just 554 were sold …

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1983 Moto Guzzi Le Mans III

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In 1983, the Moto Guzzi Le Mans III was brought back after MG was able to get the smaller engine certified under US emissions – for a few years the US was stuck with a 949cc engine. With the arrival of the Mark III, Guzzi created approximately 80 technical changes of varying severity from the Mark II model.

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SSSA – 2006 Ducati 749S

In Italy, Sport by AbhiLeave a Comment

According to the book Ducati 999, when Pierre Terblanche initially designed the 749/999, he wanted it to have a single sided swing arm (SSSA). Obviously, he didn’t win that battle, but the book shows lots of great concept sketches of the 999 with a SSSA. The seller of this bike decided to turn it into what Terblanche would have wanted …