Simply: having fun – column
Sometimes I get to drive very nice, very expensive classics and call that 'work'. Then I sometimes think back, because as a Certified Old Man I also drove many of those things when they were worth 'nothing'. When I…
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Ducati 750GT, 860GT and Ducati 900GTS. Good in one go.
The Ducati 750GT, 860GT and Ducati 900GTS are iconic models that embody the essence of Ducati's design and technical innovation. Produced at a time when the motorcycle industry was undergoing a significant shift, these models represent an important chapter in history...
Coming Out: Release Notes – Column
We bought another cupboard. But the thing is standing, and standing well. That was a good choice of my Love. The old cupboard had to be emptied and taken apart. He leaves under the motto 'function elsewhere'. Than…
transition problems
It's about electricity. And the beginning of the story was that there were electricity problems on a very nicely restored classic.
Modern times – column
Women and motorcycles. Women on motorcycles. It remains a field of tension somewhere. I once saw a hard core biker staring angrily into a copy of Back Street Heroes. The lady who forgot to put on her bikini top was draped over a Harley so much that he couldn't see the special carburetor on that piece of 'Real American Steel'.
Condor A350. The convection condor
In 1891, the Frenchman Edouard Scheffer decided to emigrate to Courfaivre in Switzerland to start a factory for machines and metal products. Scheffer delivered his products, including machines for making watch parts, mainly to Switzerland and in anticipation of all the ever coming EU troubles made Swiss imports from France increasingly difficult.
Ducati 750GT
The 90 ° V-twin / L-twin designed by the genius Fabio Taglioni was already a bombshell. Here in the Netherlands there was a black and white spy photo in the then WeekBlad Motor. Everyone shivered.
Bimota, almost always in trouble
Bimota: Proof that Italians can prioritize. Even if it is only 'First the passion, then the pasta'. Bimota is one such brand that every student at Nijenrode Business University gets flakes from between their fingers. Bimota made the most fantastic engines and staggered from one financial crisis to another. Nice is not it?
Peter's Pantah Plus Project
Huge success songs become classics. Technical highlights become classics. Misses and sales flops become classics. We wouldn't even dream of calling the Ducati Pantahs with their belt-driven camshafts misses or sales flops. But they didn't have a smooth start. Because…
Project Imola Ducati, Baines
Years ago we saw our first Project Imola Ducati in the wild. and machine based on a 1992'er 900 Supersport with 11,5: 1 Arias pistons. On the test bench, the block on the rear wheel delivered 80 hp. But because the Imola weighed about forty kilos less than the donor, it was an extremely fast bike.