The SS models of the 70s are the among the highest reaching Ducati. Very rare to come across one, here we have a 750 cc. The bike was regularly driven. The seller explicitly mentions that it isn’t a museum bike, but it looks pretty good to me.
he starting price is a whopping 47.850 EUR and who knows where the reserve is. This Ducati is a real race replica and was apparently built in roughly 400 samples. Considered one, if not the most significant model of Ducati’s history, the SS 750cc was built following the Imola 200 race of 1972, which Ducati won. This model features the colors of Paul Smart , also recently used for the recent modern replica. If you wonder what that vertical stripe on the tanks is for, well that was to check the fuel level on the racing version.
This SS also featured the bevel actuated desmodromic camshaft. I guess you could see this as the equivalent of the gear driven system of the racing Aprilia RSV4 as opposed to the stock chain driven technology. Highly sophisticated, the 750cc SS of 1974 was a demonstration of how a serial motorbike could be as close to a race bike as possible.
The Ducati 750 is posted on eBay in Germany but the bike is located in Switzerland. Let’s hear it from the seller:
750SS 1974, the duc is now even washed, and is spotless. FIVA registered, and now also in the global SS register registered under bevelheaven.com under headings 190 to the constant discussions whether original or not definitively bury the … annoying website is operated by roger miller and ian fallon. Since revision 12096 km, still dry as it is still snowing. this is not a museumsduc but is driven regularly and it shows too …. so it must be. No warranty, Collection only.
Good luck to the bidders on this one.
1974 Ducati 750 SS on ebay (Germany/Switzerland)
Claudio
Original 74 Super Sports are very expensive to buy and just as expensive to restore to original condition. A quick look shows that this bike appears good even though it has the wrong carbs and shocks and the silencer homogolation plate is upside down. But you would need to be asking a lot of questions as the photos are pretty poor and, given that the frame numbers quoted on the Bevelheaven List and Falloon’s 750SS registry differ for the same frame number, you’d expect some pretty serious answers.
>This SS also featured the bevel actuated desmodromic camshaft. I guess you could see this as the equivalent of the gear driven system of the racing Aprilia RSV4 as opposed to the stock chain driven technology.
Actually it’s the valvetrain that’s “desmodromic”, not the camshaft. Desmo valve actuation involves positive mechanical closing of the valves – a function that normally is performed by springs. The idea was that positive closing as well as opening improves valve control at high rpms and helps avoid “valve float” considering the less advanced metallurgy of the time. “Bevel drive” of the cams refers to the beveled gear unit at the top of the exterior “tower”, that drives the camshaft. You’re correct that one might compare this to a modern gear-driven cam design such as in a Honda RC30 or Aprilia V-four.
Dallas, you right and have been more precise…
I imagine this will go for BIG BUCKS, all I can do is watch and wish. Does Jay Leno have one of these, I’ve seen a MHR and White Paso Limited on his website.
Jay Leno, if you are a reader of RSBFS, please let us know…
Jay Leno! Jay Leno! JAY LENO should buy it! He has tens millions of dollars of disposable income, and hey, he likes old motorcycles, right- gee, who knew? We should tell him about it, maybe he’ll buy it! ENOUGH! I’m sick of him being mentioned as a potential buyer for every single expensive and collectable car or motorcycle coming to market. Yes, he already owns five Vincents and three Brough Superiors, but don’t you think his buyers (to hide his identity to prevent price gouging) would have found a couple already if he really wanted one? Give it a rest people- the Jay Leno comments have become cliched, predicatable, and really tiresome in our hobby at this point.