Oh, how I wish...

**98tls** · 30th June 2010, 19:03

Should have would have been another keeper for sure.http://www.ozebook.com/alchemy.htmGuess i should have included a link for the young uns re Bevel drives but na f#ck em

A real Duke.

**Kickaha** · 30th June 2010, 19:18

I've got some magazine articles about them somewhere, Phil Payne used to race one over here in BEARs before all that belt drive rubbish took off

**98tls** · 30th June 2010, 19:23

Originally Posted by Kickaha

I've got some magazine articles about them somewhere, Phil Payne used to race one over here in BEARs before all that belt drive rubbish took off

Yep got a heap of em here to mate,had them for years.I can still remember the day the old man bought his 860 home,ugly thing that it was and how well it would have gone in one of those frames eh.I saw one in the flesh years later (only one ive ever seen) and god they were beautiful.

**98tls** · 30th June 2010, 19:46

Bugger,this thread started as a result of having a couple with a mate that rides a Drama and in conversation these old kits came up,said i would post up a thread and we might get some interesting pics/feedbacks his reply was "fuck off all you will get is "whats Bevel drive" from dickheads in blimp suits on late model shit"Not even that.Down 50 quid you fuckers.

**Kickaha** · 30th June 2010, 20:13

Originally Posted by 98tls

"fuck off all you will get is "whats Bevel drive" from dickheads in blimp suits on late model shit"Not even that.Down 50 quid you fuckers.

Bevel drive is what the real Ducati men ride, all the limp wristed pooftas ride the belt drive rubbish

**Motu** · 30th June 2010, 20:50

Says he rode it in the Wellington forest - fuck,that must have been a few years ago ,I didn't know Ducati's were as old as that.

**98tls** · 30th June 2010, 20:54

Originally Posted by Motu

Says he rode it in the Wellington forest - fuck,that must have been a few years ago ,I didn't know Ducati's were as old as that.

Fuck i didnt realize Wellington was that old.

**MIXONE** · 30th June 2010, 20:58

Saw that racing at Ruapuna a few years back.Glorious sound and it went well too.

PS.I haven't got a limp wrist and I ride a belt drive!

**Kickaha** · 30th June 2010, 22:26

Originally Posted by MIXONE

Saw that racing at Ruapuna a few years back.Glorious sound and it went well too.

PS.I haven't got a limp wrist and I ride a belt drive!

Be quite a few years ago now, probably early nineties

The only belt drive bike I'd like to own would be one of the 750 F1 series

**MIXONE** · 30th June 2010, 22:35

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Be quite a few years ago now, probably early nineties

The only belt drive bike I'd like to own would be one of the 750 F1 series

Yeah it was around the time that the Britten was getting thrashed around as well.To me the glory days of the Sound Of Thunder.

**98tls** · 30th June 2010, 23:07

All was well until Cagiva a hold of things,the comeback was almost as bad,anyone remember riding a late 80s early 90s SS.i can for all the wrong reasons.i often chuckle when i have to listen to the riders of such things prattle on about the Ducati thing as they know it.