RealClassic

If you’re a Ducati fan then we have something of a Sport fest lined up for you. And it starts here, when Ozboy encounters a true Ducati ‘passionisti’… Did you buy a bike or embrace a lifestyle? What drew you, maybe still draws you, to a particular bike or way of riding? Maybe it was to impress the girls (or…

Kel Boyce bought a Spanish-built Mototrans 24 Horas by mistake, believing it to be a Ducati. No problem; it was built to go racing and so that’s what he did with it… So the road-going race replica I’d bought added up to a very overweight bike, right? Yep! But don’t get too carried away because that bike stuck to the…

The ’24 Horrors’ has something of an appalling reputation, explains Kel Boyce. He bought one, and took it racing… You may know that the single cylinder Ducati was the backbone of 250cc racing, at least during the early years of racing under the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club. The fact that the ‘Duke’ never really stood up too well against the…

We’ve just ridden a much-modded Duke Darmah for the magazine, but back in 1978 Dave Minton rode one of the very first of the breed to leave the factory. And he thought it was really rather good… If you accept that riding in freak rainstorms can provide enough information with which to formulate an opinion, and if you can overlook…

In the first instalment of this short saga, we met Ash Gannicott and his miniature Italian cafe-racer project. Russ (Ash’s dad) Gannicott takes up the tale of a first time classic bike rebuild… The non-running, 125cc Mototrans Ducati had been successfully stripped. Nothing much was wrong with the major components, apart from the nearside fork stanchion which was slightly bent,…

Ash Gannicott wanted his own classic bike. One small problem: Ash is only nine. So doting Dad Russ swooped on this ideal opportunity to play with (sorry; rebuild on a tight budget) a miniature Italian cafe racer… OK, imagine the scenario: you’ve got a few(!) bikes in your garage, a couple more at your workplace and a nine year old…