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Great luck is often just great timing and if you happen to be George Betzhold, you are a very lucky guy…..

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(translated from Italian)

First Official Photo of the New Scrambler Borile with Single Cylinder Motor Derived From Ducati

Borile and Co shows the first pictures of the Scrambler, the single cylinder engine designed and manufactured by Borile MOTORCYCLES in collaboration with Ducati. In particular, the House Bolognese provides the thermal unit (bore and stroke of 98 mm to 60 mm), while the Borile produces the base. The gearbox is removed, the fuel injection and electric start. The Scrambler, which will conclude in the coming weeks all the tests in the street, trying to print will be made ​​by September to enter immediately into production.

It will cost 12,700 euros

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Building motorcycles is an art as well as a science. While some builders take it very seriously, others have a sense of irreverence. The lighter touch often seems to come from mainland Europe; the French outfit Blitz springs to mind, and another is Spain’s El Solitario, run by David Borras.
‘Chupito’ is the latest from El Solitario, and is based on a 1977 Ducati Road 350. These nimble singles were marketed under the Ducati name, but were actually built by the short-lived Spanish company MotoTrans, which was taken over by Yamaha in the 80s.

Read more: http://www.bikeexif.com/ducati-road-350#ixzz1wDDifkFf

For this edition of Memorable Motorcycles Frank Melling presents the 450 Ducati Scrambler - a bike ahead of its time but full of quirks.

If ever a bike needed to be put into context it is the Ducati 450 scrambler – and the key to understanding this rather lovely motorcycle is to appreciate just how big motocross was in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Today, if you ask a MotoGP fan who the current World Motocross Champion is, you would be lucky to get any answer – let alone an accurate one.

Not so 40 years ago. Road riders and circuit racing fans were heavily involved in the motocross scene and knew the factories and bikes as well as they could recite the exploits of legendary road racers like Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini....more here: http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/289/12775/Motorcycle-Article/Memorable-Motorcycle--Ducati-450-Scrambler.aspx