[Ducati] 500 PT

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Vicki,

Do you have any contact email for these blokes as I would like to hear about 
other owner's experiences with PTs.

Noel.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Veloce916 at aol.com>
To: <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Ducati] 500 PT


>
> FWIW we had one displayed in the Mid Ohio VMD display, Ralph and Linda
> Poole's very tidy 500 Sport Desmo, and as a result I met a couple of 
> people  that
> have them and ride them. They both introduced themselves to thank us  for
> including this model which has taken such a, (in their opinion  unfair) 
> beating for
> so long.  In both cases I felt I was speaking to  about as enthusiastic 
> and
> passionate an owner as Ducati can lay claim to.   They both had many years 
> of
> great service out of the bikes and felt they had  suffered unfairly over 
> the
> years - neither of these guys had much to offer in  the way of horror 
> stories,
> only about how rewarding they were to ride (great  handling was mentioned 
> by
> them as well) and how long and good they had  preformed. And they both 
> really,
> really rode the bikes, many miles, many years.  I have no personal 
> experience,
> just thought this was worth a post since  parallel twins don't come up 
> very
> often..
> Vicki
>
> In a message dated 3/17/2007 10:16:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> trolland at gmail.com writes:
>
> There  are two reasons, one they didn't fit the oil
> pumps in them very well, and  they used mismatched metal plugs on the
> end of the cams. They resulted in  oil starvation and the big ends
> blow. With a shim job on the oil pump and  some other work they don't
> blow up.
>
>
>
>
>
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