The birth of Ducati’s legendary command-drive V-twins and their quirky evolution to the rulers of the Formula 750-class-motorbikes that not only managed to defeat the British, Germans and Italians, but also the best Japan to offer-is central to the latest book by Alan Cathcart.
The British motor journalist does not only take you into the technical development of ING. Fabio Taglioni’s unique designs, but mainly tells how it felt to drive them themselves. So from the saddle, as we are used to from Cathcart.
The book includes test drives with iconic machines such as the Ducati 750 Desmo with which Paul Smart took the victory in Imola in 1972, but also with its less well -known predecessor, the Ducati 500 GP Bicilindrica. In addition, Cathcart looks back on his own half century racing with one of the 401 copies of the 750 SS – the customer version of Smart’s winning machine – what are stories that gives extra low authenticity and passion. Also an extensive interview with the now deceased Paul Smart is not missing; Together with Bruno Spaggiari, he wrote Ducati history in Imola.
Published by Edizione FBA Motoitaliane is this luxury hardcover book (30 × 23 cm), printed on high -quality paper and bilingual (Italian and English). It is full of full -page photos, many of which have never been published before. Action photos from that time, details of the machines – everything that makes the heart of a Ducatisti hit faster.
152 pages thick, numbered and limited to 1,000 copies. Price: € 49.00 excluding shipping costs. Can be ordered via the publisher’s website: www.motoitaliane.it
– Thanks for information from Motorfreaks.