Ducati 750 Sport

[SPman]

Found some negatives in the box that could be interesting. The first two are a Ducati 750 Sport being raced in a production race at Pukekohe - Dec 1973 or early 1974. The first Sport in New Zealand, it was delivered to Auckland Motorcyles with a half fairing, which they had to remove to race it (production bikes didn't have fairings so take it off). I haven't seen a Sport described as having a fairing, since. It was also a strong Orange colour - most I've seen since seem to be a yellowy orange....The rider was Rod Dunshea, who normally raced an Egli Vincent!




The other one is a (slightly blurry) pic of a Benelli 650, at the same meeting. This was allowed to race with the faired screen, which that batch of models was delivered with. (I had one on my GT750)

[Humma.]

history there

[SPman]

The Sport is sort of the forgotten Duc - the 750 SS attracts all the attention......

[rossguzzi]

This 'could' be the 750 Sport that Brook Henry had. The front fairing was fitted to some of them. There was even a Sporty that had a very diffrent black stripe. More like a Z pattern.

If it is Brook`s old one, it ended up in my brothers possesion for some time. A fantastic experience to ride a fully sorted one.

Interesting....Sports had only one front disc. The Super Sport, 2.
I had a modded Sport with twin Scarob drilled iron discs. It stopped as good as Radial Brembo`s today.

They were the real thing !

[SPman]

Henry Brothers were the importers for Ducati in NZ at that time - I bought my GT from their lockup in Cambridge, mid '73 - well, I paid for it in mid '73...then had to wait until December for the shipment to turn up. Auckland Motorcycles, with Ned and the boys were the Auckland agents. I don't know if it was theirs or Brooks, but I was drooling over it, the day they stuck it in the showroom.

[rossguzzi]

http://classic-motorbikes.net/images..._750_sport.jpg

Here is the Z pattern. Though not original, it gives you the idea.

Dredging my memory, perhaps I overstated how good the brakes were. Probably not Radial quality, but I remember squeeling the front tyre to a stop many times.