[Ducati] Identity crisis

[Veloce916 at aol.com]

I had this dilemma with my 1987 Alazurra 650SS, which was technically a  
Cagiva but every time I parked it somebody told me it was a Ducati. At the time  
it was the same owners, so I didn't really care (well, not totally, I did  wish 
it was a full Ducati, they have always been "cooler" than Cagiva's) Not  sure 
what Peter means about the Paso's, that's a Ducati, no doubt what so ever.  
But in my opinion the e900 was a cross branded Cagiva. And the Lucky Strike  
Explorer was The Bomb in it's day.
Vicki
 
In a message dated 9/2/2007 3:48:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  dsi at swcp.com 
writes:

If you  buy a new Husqvarna, is it a Husky or a BMW?  Perhaps if BMW  designed
the motor, frame, everything, it might properly be called a BMW,  but that is
not the case at present, so its still a Husky.

Same for  Elefant, Paso and so forth. There were real Cagiva's that weren't
Ducati at  all, two stroke MXer types, but they did not use the Ducati two
stroke  motors nor anything else from Ducati.

Just to show you what is in a  name, Ducati themselves still refer to two
valve rubber band motors as  Pantahs, but on Pantaheads list, we don't
consider them them to be because  the Dual Spark for instance seems an
evolution down the line. On  Pantaheads, we happily consider Elefants as part
of our bikes, and in fact  there was a great discussion of Elefants back when
World's Fastest Indian  came out, because they used Elefant motors and frames
for the speedliner  that was enclosed.

Two Ducs, therefore is your answer, but why stop  now, buy some more!


Peter


----- Original Message -----  
From: "MS&F" <thebrowns at domaccess.com>
To: "Ducati Owners  Group" <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 1:39  PM
Subject: [Ducati] Identity crisis


> Dear  List
>
> I'd like some opinions.  I'm very happily a Duc  owner with my Darmah -
> but what is the consensus about my  Elefant?  Or other Duc engined
> Cagivas out there.  The  Elefant is very firmly a Cagiva in Europe but
> was marketed as a Ducati  e900 in the US.  Would you guys say I own one
> or two  Ducs?
>
> Stuart
>
> PS - Ive already been accused of  running a zoo with the Darmah
> (translates as tiger), Elefant and a  Husky.
>
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