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Tech Information => Technical Discussion => Topic started by: mtiberio on June 15, 2018, 08:24:02 AM

Title: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: mtiberio on June 15, 2018, 08:24:02 AM

Anyone know of this bike on ebay?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1972-Ducati-Supercharged-Landspeed-Racer-/173364331797

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: NathanStewart on June 15, 2018, 02:01:02 PM

Looks like a well fake-patina'd piece of art to me.  Take a closer look at the pics and you'll see it's missing some essential motorcycle parts. 

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: Doc B. on June 15, 2018, 02:04:17 PM

This seems to be what it looked like - before some mods and a fire, maybe??

https://www.bike-urious.com/land-speed-moped-1970-tomos/ (https://www.bike-urious.com/land-speed-moped-1970-tomos/)

Read this thread - https://www.mopedarmy.com/forums/read.php?1%2C3943472%2C3943473#msg-3943473 (https://www.mopedarmy.com/forums/read.php?1%2C3943472%2C3943473#msg-3943473)

(https://i2.wp.com/www.bike-urious.com/wp-content/uploads/Tomos-Ducati-Land-Speed-Moped-Rear-Left.jpg?zoom=1.5&resize=761%2C511)

What the? The guys who seems to have built it, seems to own it and has it listed on ebay is asking on the Bonneville Salt Flats Racing FB page if anyone knows anything about it? Perhaps he is suffering from amnesia.

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: Skip Pipes on June 15, 2018, 06:53:33 PM

Nathan,

I just knew we'd find a purpose for that Yamaha QT50 - I'll start pitching Michael's mom.

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: sofadriver on June 15, 2018, 11:56:22 PM

Quote from: NathanStewart on June 15, 2018, 02:01:02 PM

Looks like a well fake-patina'd piece of art to me.  Take a closer look at the pics and you'll see it's missing some essential motorcycle parts. 

I've had my share of Ducs……. and that's not one.

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: floydjer on June 19, 2018, 01:30:37 PM

tough crowd :cheers:

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: wobblywalrus on June 20, 2018, 12:07:15 AM

In Italy I saw all sorts of dinky Ducati utility-like bikes and trikes.  Some had very small 2-cycle engines.

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: bob on June 20, 2018, 12:22:53 PM

oh ya ducati makes a whole fleet of super small two stroke scooters, cool stuff. in the late sixties early seventies my dad was a Maserati dealer in sacramento ca.  i had a early sixties 250 Diana café ( still got it ). so we were importing Maserati new and used, they also made some way cool scooters , so of coarse I had to have a couple , made em all café racers, for the era they were pretty zippy. wish I would of kept my Maserati café scooters. so this thing could possibly be a duc. pretty far out one.

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: Doc B. on June 20, 2018, 06:35:31 PM

It's a Tomos LX scooter, guys. From Slovenia. Read the links I posted.

Those little Maseratis are cool!

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d2LvrGYdq9E/UkU9-4E1xCI/AAAAAAAAF9c/DBxGJa32GiI/s1600/maserati6.jpg)

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: bob on June 20, 2018, 10:49:21 PM

oh man !!!  I get misty eyed looking at the little maser

Title: Re: Supercharged Ducati Single
Post by: RGV on June 29, 2018, 07:28:25 PM

stumbled upon this lil gem at a Motorcycle Museum at Peterborough in South Australia one year coming home from Lake Gairdner.

Looks have started out as the same bike?

(https://i.imgur.com/pJIAM3Q.jpg)