[Ducati] 98 916 model info

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Hey Rich,
 
Foggy was on a 916R in '94 and the 996 by '98.  I think they jumped up  the 
displacement to 955cc right from the git go while the street bike was a  916cc 
mill. In '96 or '97 it was bumped up to 996cc while the SPS street bike  hit 
that displacement during the same time. 
 
Clearing cobwebs from my mind here so memory could be off.
 
W
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/12/2007 3:07:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
bigredxrunner at yahoo.com writes:

Thanks,  for the correction, I guess I was thinking of models that were sold 
as street  bikes. But that might rule out the 916SP as well since I am not so 
sure how  many of those actually made it to the street, someting like 50 I 
think but  have only seen a few. I assume the 916R was actually a 955? When you 
start to  talk about the race bikes it gets a little fuzzy. I would have to go 
back in  the archives but wasn't Fogarty on a 955 by 96/97 and they called 
that a  916R???? to distinguish it from the more street 916SP which at some point 
was  also a 955? Without diggin back into past volumes of junk I have 
collected  over the years, I do not think there ever was a 916 with 94mm bore that 
had SP  cams from the factory or any other race cam, I think they went right to 
955  with 96mm like the next year or so after the 916 came out. which would 
make it  95/96 or so. I started building my old 955SP about that time and sort 
of used  the 916SP as a blueprint. I would
guess the 916R of the same time period  was also a 955 but I could be wrong, 
not much was ever written re the 916R so  I do not know much about it. It was 
only around a year or so. But I  distinguish that from any of the road bikes 
which the 916SP was still a  roadbike. Can't imagine selling a R or RS that was 
truly a factory Superbike  for a pittance on eBay, have seen some though but 
wondered as to authenticity,  you would think most of the stuff that Foggy or 
John Kocinski rode back then  would be in hands of museum or collector. Rich


 



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