If you could buy a brand new SportClassic today, what would it look like? We reckon it'd be just like this custom Ducati from Digital Directiv.
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If you could buy a brand new SportClassic today, what would it look like? We reckon it'd be just like this custom Ducati from Digital Directiv.
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For a motorcycle that only sold in small numbers and was produced for just five years, the Ducati SportClassic generates a remarkable amount of press. It’s virtually impossible to find a good condition example on the secondhand market, and if you do find one, you’ll have to pay handsomely for
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Anthony Warnock is an ex-WSBK/MotoGP mechanic and now runs Corse Motorcycles in Perth, Australia. His specialty is late model Ducatis, having worked in Europe on the racing scene for 12 years, and for the factory itself in 2003.
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The Ducati SportClassic was a bike ahead of its time—a machine that married retro café-style looks with thoroughly modern performance.
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While Cafe Racer fever has gripped the motorcycle marketing machine, one mainstream manufacturer is missing out.
Retro Features and Cafe Project sections are popping up in all the mainstream bike rags, custom shows have less tassels and more clip-ons these days, and you can hardly watch a perfume ad without someone chasing Keira Knightly on a Desmo…
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Good entertainment - Lots of photos of cool Sport Classics here. We actually disagree a bit with this article. Ducati stopped building Sport Classic's not because they had no vision but because most people that wanted one, had bought one. And the Sport Classic wasn't Ducati's first production Cafe Racer, the list of unmodified production Ducati "cafe racers" that you could ride to bike night and gather a "hipster" crowd with is long (450 Desmo/Silver ShotGun/900SS/750SS, even the 90's SuperSport's)
Our opinion? Go buy a 90's 900SS. (see http://www.waltsiegl.com/ for inspiration) and build something cool. Bolting parts on a new Triumph Bonneville (or even a Sport Classic) does not a rebel make...