We’ve seen a fair number of 900SS/SL’s this year and in fact we’ve seen this particular bike as recently as November of last year. At the time of that writing it was showing a $10,900 buy-it-now. This time around it has met reserve at $9100 with a little over a day to go. The seller has updated the listing a couple times with additional details and states that this in fact a 1992 model and the wheels came with the bike, making it a MK1 version which has proven more desirable.
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Ducati Superlight for sale on eBay
from the seller:
This is a very nicely-maintained 1993 Ducati 900 Superlight, #857. It is a very desirable “MK 1” first series Superlight, with the composite Marvic wheels. It has very low miles (5153) and is in very nice original condition. It has a full Fast by Ferraci exhaust and runs smoothly and flawlessly. The paint is only flawed by minor cracking around the seat mounting screws.
A Corbin seat is installed, as are after-market carbon timing belt covers, chain guard, sprocket cover and dash/instrument cover. Original seat, belt covers and sprocket cover come with the bike, as does the original exhaust. This bike came stock with a carbon front fender and rear hugger, which are in excellent condition.
MK 1 Superlights are rare, especially in this condition, with such low mileage.
92′ Superlights did, indeed, come with modular Marvic wheels. They were, however, color matched yellow on the inner spokes to the bike’s yellow paint scheme.
I’ve never seen a Superlight with Marvic mag wheels painted yellow from the factory. I checked Google images, and out of hundreds of images, not a single one was painted yellow. All were zinc chromate coated, like the one for sale here.
odd to replace tires and wheels but leave the original chain (at least it looks original)
I admit- I could be wrong, but the four or five I have come across all had yellow, inner spokes, and bare aluminum rims. Perhaps I’ve seen a local trend, rather than a factory standard? Either way- this bike is gorgeous, and is deserving of a good home!
I have a Superlight that I have owned for 19 years. No yellow rims…I believe that these rims were used also on the 888 SP4S
Chris K- your statement is flat out incorrect.