NZ built racing specials

[Kickaha]

Steve Wynne live in NZ well he did last time i looked.

Still does
https://sportsvalve.com/

[jellywrestler]

Still does
https://sportsvalve.com/

that's not Steve Wynne anymore

[husaberg]

that's not Steve Wynne anymore

Hes still on the site?
https://sportsvalve.com/steve-wynne/

[jellywrestler]

Hes still on the site?
https://sportsvalve.com/steve-wynne/

and when is the last time you personally chatted with him?

[husaberg]

that's not Steve Wynne anymore

Hes still on the site?
https://sportsvalve.com/steve-wynne/

We are up and running so take a look at www.sportsvalve.com and let us know what you think? And if you know of any impossible to find parts you would like making, let us know.
Kindest regards to all you Ducati folk,

Steve Wynne

and when is the last time you personally chatted with him?

interesting....Because this is what my comment was, its still true even now it even included a question mark........
but hey mines 10 inches with plenty of girth.

[lozz900]

Same here esp with the fairing fo the shocks
Although isn't it a NCR patten that the MHB happened to replicate
AS the Hailwood bike likely came from NCR
edit yip i did
Steve Wynne live in NZ well he did last time i looked.
http://www.rezbikes.com/blogtest/201...nd-case-v-twin

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https://raresportbikesforsale.com/19...-ducati-900ss/

You never did post pics of the swingarm an shock linkages.

That tank on your bike is the tank I call the Imola tank.it belongs to an earlier

Interesting, ill get to those suspension pics, so am I correct in thinking that bodywork wise this could be no earlier than 1979. The year the MHR appeared. The engine and chassis is 78 ish

[husaberg]

Interesting, ill get to those suspension pics, so am I correct in thinking that bodywork wise this could be no earlier than 1979. The year the MHR appeared. The engine and chassis is 78 ish

I am no Ducatiaphobe
but the MHR was a replica of the NCR race bike
of around that era.
but tank and styling is often changed.
best way to date it is likely the wheel sizes.
Grumph mentioned the pipes look like CHCH made Harris pipes.
maybe try and fid some Ducati people that were involved in Bears of that era 80-90's Payne etc.

[ellipsis]

I am no Ducatiaphobe
.

...I am one of them...did you mean to say Ducatiphile...

[husaberg]

...I am one of them...did you mean to say Ducatiphile...

Possibly
They both involve probing into orifices

[Grumph]

I am no Ducatiaphobe
but the MHR was a replica of the NCR race bike
of around that era.
but tank and styling is often changed.
best way to date it is likely the wheel sizes.
Grumph mentioned the pipes look like CHCH made Harris pipes.
maybe try and fid some Ducati people that were involved in Bears of that era 80-90's Payne etc.

You could always send pics to Motorcycle Exhaust Systems asking if they remember it. They built most of the Harris pipes for Graham.
He's still around too. The one who would have known was Euan Cameron - no not the photographer, the other one who was involved with Harris and in Bears.
But he died a couple of years back. Better get onto these guys fairly soon. Memories are fading fast among them .

[lozz900]

Interesting, ill get to those suspension pics, so am I correct in thinking that bodywork wise this could be no earlier than 1979. The year the MHR appeared. The engine and chassis is 78 ish

So here's those long awaited suspension pics, arrowed are what I can only assume are suspension and linkage mount points, they are all 12 mm plate, the other misc tabs are 1-2 mm thick .
Note that the diagonal tube going up to support the rear hoop has been cut and tucked also, on a gts they normally go down to the swingarm pivot point. Im going to say it was a monoshock with linkages to the rear of the swing arm like the yamaha OW61
of the same era except perhaps the shock was vertical.

[husaberg]

nice write up
https://amcn.com.au/editorial/dukes-of-wellington/

i have pdf'd it here incase it falls of the webpage

[jellywrestler]

nice write up
https://amcn.com.au/editorial/dukes-of-wellington/

i have pdf'd it here incase it falls of the webpage

it was me that got Dallas into getting the Duke of Wellington off the shelf and on it's feet a couple of years back, learnt a bit about it in the process too.

[Grumph]

Looking at the pic in front of the shop with Robert on board, the f&f's got a flat boot. Someone should surely have noticed that.
I miss Dick. Always went and had a yarn with him, swapping ideas.

[husaberg]

I thought i had posted the stuff from the Streetbike i have posted the pic but going back through here not the story next time i trip over it i will scan it in.
I suspected that Spider might know a bit more about it.
Did any of the Supermono's stay in NZ?
between those and the orginai 916 they rank to me to be some of the most exquisitely styled bikes ever made of that era