Hate to be negative, but i don't think it's worth 65k. There are too many questions. Mileage is unknown. It's been crashed and parts restamped. Beautiful bike, but a bit of a bitsa bike imho.
Bitza? Huh?
wrong master and calipers and a stupid rear setup, but everyone used those Lockheeds
... he replaced a bunch of fasteners with wrong stuff and has a picture of fasteners that he replaced and a bunch of THOSE fasteners are the wrong hardware. That's kinda scary
The motor was done by Guy at MBR. Can't get better than that. There's pictures of the motor in pieces in Guy's shop. Yeah, it would be better if there was still a seal on the bottom of the motor, but that's gonna cost ya.
The clocks show 23,xxx miles.
The frame is way over restored, but as long as it's now straight who cares about it's past.
Wrong shocks BUT they are adjustable Koni of the correct vintage Nice upgrade
That tach drive may be aftermarket.
I can usually spot a bitzzer, I'm
good at it
I'll tell ya this was put together using Ian Faloon's book as a manual by someone with no experience... that just threw money at it.It's perfectly CORRECT, but just WRONG, but it looks to me to put it together out of one parts pile. It has most of the right parts, but i think he got fasteners at HomeDepot. Look at the fasteners on the front calipers. The ones on the outside came from Asia and the ones on the inside are European. That's just dumb.
It DOES have the correct expensive green fuel line and is numbers matching. So it has that going for it.
Worth is a relative term.
As a motorcycle NO WAY IN HECK is this thing is worth $65k. Even for the day they're NOT that great, I own a '73. They drive like a bus, a sceni-cruiser bus, a VERY long bus, about 65HP and those brakes blow chunks.
A '74 Laverda SFC was/is a FAR superior bike, but know body has ever heard of Laverda
A '74 Norton was faster and has won a lot more races.
A '74 Guzzi was so good they used them for cop bikes.
BUT everyone has heard of Ducati and the reason they've heard of Ducati is
this bike.
The round case SS's are
SPECIAL. There WAS only 401 made, almost 50 years ago, and a bunch of 'em got crashed and pranged (I'll tell you ALL round cases are special. I actually like to ride them. There's nothing like hustlling a bike with a 59.75" wheelbase through a set of esses)
If you're into collecting un-rideable Ducatis there is only one more desirable than this one, an Imola 750. One sold last year for $123,000, but it had race providence.
Hey look, Lockheed calipers and a stupid rear setup (they came stock with Scarab brakes) and the '73 had a leading axle on the front, like a dirt bike, adding another 1 1/2" to the wheel base, 2" longer than a Harley FLH, the BIG one... and this supposed to be a race bike.
But this is where the Ducati got it's name in racing.
You can't ride it cuz what if you pranged your $65k bike?
I got bikes that are bitzzers that I can beat the bejesus out of with a clear conscience and a fairly safe wallet . If i blow it up or crash it I can put back together and haven't lost any value
I like to ride 'em, not sit and look at 'em... so these bikes have very little value or worth to me.
That being said I'll give you any body part I can spare and still live thru for an Imola that I can beat the bejesus outta. Still got 2 kidneys, non drinker with a healthy liver I could split with ya.
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