With Ducati Paul Smart commemoratives fetching $25K-ish, this owner has created a similarly configured bike with lot of nicer components, distinguishable from the original only by the not-blue frame and the Mediterranean cruise you can take with the price difference.
2006 Ducati Sport 1000 for sale on eBay
Designed by Pierre Terblanche in the early 2000’s, the SportClassic line-up used the 992cc air-cooled dual spark engine, and had 93 hp available. The chro-moly trellis works around the vertical cylinder and back towards the integrated seat subframe. All systems are available for view, and on this bike have been done up nicely. Forks by Marzocchi and Sachs monoshock have given way to Öhlins both ends. Brakes are still unbeatable 4-puck Brembo fronts with 320mm rotors, followed by 245mm rear. A factory Sport 1000 fairing has been added to the monoposto seat and all the bodywork painted an understated dark silver.
Presented by a San Diego dealer, there are a lot of nice touches on this one. Those peek-a-boo Rizoma cam belt covers lead the charge, but there is a matching clutch cover, Arrow exhaust system, Acculign adjustable rearsets, and some niceties in the intake stream but out of view. Here’s a short list from the eBay auction:
This is a 1 Owner bike. Bike is very clean and has been built with the best parts possible. Looks like a Paul Smart but is not a Paul Smart. Just as good with the upgraded Ohlins and striking paint.
Ducati S upper fairing
Custom silver paint
Ohlins Fork Internals
Ohlins Rear Shock
Full Arrow exhaust
Acculign Rearsets
Rizoma Clutch Cover
Rizoma Belt Covers
Rizoma Brake and Clutch billet reservoirs
STM Frame Plugs
STM Crank Case Breather
Sargent Seat
Ducati Performance Slave Cylinder
CNC Billet timing cover
Duc Shop velocity stacks and
Termi ECU
K&N Airfilters
SportClassics can be a bit of a labor of love, since everything is visible, it’s nice if it looks good. For its nearly 12,000 miles, this machine looks ready for a serious show. Comfy-looking grips might push the odometer a little farther than the low bars and solo seat would indicate. When you do arrive, you’ll have a singular ride, all of the best attributes of a Paul Smart, and improved in many ways…
-donn
Not to take anything away from a really nice bike, but in the interest of accuracy, I seem to recall that these bikes debuted with 2-piston, sliding-pin calipers, because 4-piston calipers wouldn’t fit with wire wheels. I don’t reckon it had any real-world difference in stopping performance when fitted with decent pads, at least on the street. Of course, I’m open to correction.
This bike looks nicely done. The 2006 was the best year of these, in my opinion, as in 2007 they were changed to a biposto configuration and lost the asymmetrical swing arm and single sided exhaust. The Ohlins cartridge forks work very well. The downside to this bike is that no matter how good a re-spray looks, it still lowerers the valve long term. The most important issue when buying one of these bikes is to rule out tank spread issues as storing non-ethanol fuel in these plastic tanks caused warpage.
Great looking build and awesome finish to make a knock off Smart. Being that they implicated a lot of modern parts ( Rizi bling) I can’t figure out why they would use those horrible grips? They were ok in the 70’s and 80’s but so many better options these days. That and the fact there is no steering damper ( OG smarts came stock with transverse ones) which helped these bigger bikes stability a lot over a regular sport classic. Is really the only things missing to make it that much closer to a replica P.S.. I personal thought the 2into1 Termi sounded and looked the best. I’m sure the arrow is similar but those Zards are great looking.
Flying G is correct regarding the brakes. Original ones did not come with 4 piston. They were too close to the original spoked wheels. Instead they used a larger rotor for clearance with the two pots. Plenty of stopping power though.
Great build. Congrats to the builders…