Coming up for sale ('79 SS900 Ducati) via Turners $1 auction after Xmas

[Banditbandit]

Here have a snack pack attack with Kira...... the stairs scene is the best.

I didn't see her start the bike !!! I don't remember those with an electric start - I wanted to see her kick it over ...

[T.W.R]

That TR1 has got real potential. I am skint though because I just paid my tax. Looks like reserve at $3500 or so.

Just winding you up It's pretty original but missing a few minor bits & the colour isn't the best it'd look like a rolling banana in the flesh.
He's after more than $3500 otherwise it'd be showing within 15% of reserve by now.
About 10yrs ago I could have got you a mint one that had just been left in a farmers shed down here but the farm got sold and the new owner just flicked the bike somewhere......probably ended up in a pit TBH

Got any more info about that Ducati/Vincent you posted the picture of? Its given me an uncomfortable feeling in my boy parts. Is it local?

Nothing on the one in the pic...just that it was taken at the DOC Concourse rally/show in Sydney 1993 (I had posted it here a few years ago so just dug it up again).
Here's an article on another one that was built in 1984

[Kickaha]

Be glad to have either myself.How many MHRs were built K?The old man reckons there were 200 of the black n gold SSs built.He as i am is surprised at the reserve met flag at $15000,sure its not a silver/blue spoked rim etc but jesus it has to be the next best thing.Strange that people are menrioning MHRs in comparison,totally different kettle fellas.

Apparently over 7000 were built between 1979-86 with around 1100 being MHR Mille

The MHR Mille is the epitome of the bevel engine...one piece crank, high pressure oil supply and Massimo Bordi's 1st baby and S2 Mille's are only MHR Milles with 900 S2 body work

The S2 Mille is considered quite rare with only about 140? being built, I got offered one back mid nineties but didn't like the styling

An MHR is just an SS with a full fairing and a red frame :true:

True but the frame changed in 1983 though

[Voltaire]

I didn't see her start the bike !!! I don't remember those with an electric start - I wanted to see her kick it over ...

Freeze it as it goes down the stairs.....

[HenryDorsetCase]

He's after more than $3500 otherwise it'd be showing within 15% of reserve by now.

I bid it up till within 15% of reserve showing at $3400. It irks me (among many things on tardme) that people put start bids at $1500 and their reserve is $4k or whatever. Personally I think that tardme rules should be that start = reserve always.

I look at the TR1 and I look at this:

http://www.bikeexif.com/yamaha-virago-xv920-cafe-racer

and this

http://docschops.smugmug.com/Motorcy...6859&k=n9XmzpG

and this

http://www.bikeexif.com/yamaha-virago-920


then I consider my garage, my skills (drinking coffee and surfing the internet are skills, right?) and sigh, and move on.

[98tls]

Not at all

An MHR is just an SS with a full fairing and a red frame :true:

Hey for sure but thats what im saying,put an SS and MHR alongside each other and its chalk n cheese to look at.Fwiw the old man said the last time he saw this particular bike was at a Brass Monkey many years ago and it was then still immaculate.

[Kickaha]

Fwiw the old man said the last time he saw this particular bike was at a Brass Monkey many years ago and it was then still immaculate.

Must have been a very long time ago, even when I rode with him it was getting that "well used" look

[98tls]

Must have been a very long time ago, even when I rode with him it was getting that "well used" look

Yep that time i came across it in Ashburton it had the well used look about it,pretty sure i saw it at the Greta Valley rally many moons ago to.

[T.W.R]

Hey for sure but thats what im saying,put an SS and MHR alongside each other and its chalk n cheese to look at.

Still eye candy though

[T.W.R]

The S2 Mille is considered quite rare with only about 140? being built, I got offered one back mid nineties but didn't like the styling

That's what did it for them though...the styling, it was a spent thing and the markets eyes were elsewhere the last roll of the dice for the bevels.
There was one that sat at Ruapuna 89 Bears meet with a for sale sign on it.....sat there the whole weekend without any interest...tried getting my mate who had a 500 Pantah to hook into it but no joy, 3yrs later that was all he could bleat on about....getting a Mille S2 ended up getting a 750sport rode it about 4 times and parked it up coz didn't like the handling

[jasonu]

Oh come on...its not a mere MHR

Better looking though.

[jim.cox]

True but the frame changed in 1983 though

They are the same changes as seen between the SS and the S2.

Its just some crimping of a couple of tubes to allow fitting a bigger battery to fire the starter motor

[jim.cox]

The one for sale is a kick start model, a mans bike.

Has anyone checked this one to see which side the gear shifter is? I think its early enough that it might go either way

[Voltaire]

79 will be left shift, the 860 models has the bodged together rh to ld mechanism from memory.
Rh shift can be fun when you forget which is up and down....

[T.W.R]

They are the same changes as seen between the SS and the S2.

Its just some crimping of a couple of tubes to allow fitting a bigger battery to fire the starter motor

The 900 S2 and SS frame are different, the S2 frame was built as an economy version, it has plenty of subtle changes by comparison. The engine was identical to the 900ss bar the starter motor.
1984 saw the most changes, crankcase mods, huge dry clutch etc. It was on the Mille that starter motor caused the issues coz it wasn't rebuildable and puckered it's arse out trying to turn over the bored & stroked engine
MHR Milles' also had longer fork stanchions which changed the steering geometry and made the handling a bit nervous