A reporter for Al Jazeera attended the Isle of Man TT last year and filed an interesting video report on the festival of racing and tragedy.
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A reporter for Al Jazeera attended the Isle of Man TT last year and filed an interesting video report on the festival of racing and tragedy.
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Priceless historic footage of the Ducati factory. Date of filming is unverified but based on the TT racers shown and the combination of belt drive and Bevel ...
30 years of innovation and production advances makes this video a historic timecapsule. Narration is in Italian but video footage is self explanatory...
30 years of innovation and production advances makes this video a historic timecapsule. Narration is in Italian but video footage is self explanatory...
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This year, we decided to take the event to the racetrack (where it belongs) and thanks to Mike Weber's efforts, we're dove-tailed into 4 days of racing and track time at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
If you saw the TT & F1 display at the Ducstock event last year, you got a taste of the amazing machines that came out of NCR and Ducati in the 80s. If you didn't, next weekend's your chance to get up close and personal with the first true factory racers that came out of Ducati and watch them in action in the new P89 class specifically designed for the 650 and 750 twins that filled out the grids back in the day.
First hosted by Lou Saif in his Queens, NY shop, the TT & F1 Symposium is a loosely organised and laid-back affair that has begun the attract some of the most impressive examples of the breed and attendees from all over the world. This year, we decided to take the event to the racetrack (where it belongs) and thanks to Mike Weber's efforts, we're dove-tailed into 4 days of racing and track time at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The guest of Honor will be none other than Englishman Pat Slinn, championship winning race engineer for Mike Hailwood and Tony Rutter.
For the rest of the details on how to attend this great event, click HERE
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This year Ducati was the featured marque and the theme was F1's and the derivitives from the F1 - Montjuich, Laguna Seca, Santamonica and the TT2 and TT1. The text is in Dutch but the photos speak for the depth and quality of the event and the Ducati display.
The Ducati museum in Bologna was also present with a large tent where a dozen bikes in the race history of the brand were exhibited. All V-twins, starting with a replica of the 750 racer (#16) which Paul Smart in 1972 the 200 miles from Imola won. Next up was the winner of the 24 Hours of Montjuich of 1975 (# 9) with its narrowed lower crankcase for extra ground clearance, and equipped with lights for night stages. The list of racers was closed by a team of 750SS Spaggiari and an NCR endurance racer. On the other side of the tent stood the TT1 and TT2 F1 which Marco Lucchinelli won the Battle Of The Twins race at Daytona in 1986. The four models were represented by 888, 916 and 999
For lots of photos of classic Ducati's click HERE
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Project TTF2 rumbles back into life...
I needed a rear shock for a TTF2 project bike I’m building. But what to buy?
Bearing in mind this bike houses a prehistoric Ducati Pantah engine in a steel tube frame and sits on 18in wheels, was spending six or seven hundred quid-plus on a full spec race unit worth the money?
No.
For this old-school race bike all I needed was the right stroke, eye-to-eye length, spring weight (350lb/in) and the right damping parameters to work with the non rising-rate shock linkage. Seeing as I’ve been waiting for nearly two years (!) for a friend to build me a shock as a ‘favour’ it has recently become evident that I’d actually have to dig deep and just buy one.
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/mark-forsyths-blog/shocking-news/21057.html#ixzz21IFwTWCQ
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4th Annual Ducati TT/F1 Symposium - September 2nd - 4th, 2012
The sights and sounds of a sea of Ducati TT1, TT2, and 750F1s.. A gathering of some of the most rabidly enthusiastic TT1 and F1 fanatics from all over the world..
The TT/F1 Symposium gets better each year and brings the bikes closer to their native habitat; the race track. The event’s come a long way from the first gathering at Lou Saif’s shop in Queens, NY. We had an excellent group the following year at Ralf Stechow’s shop in New Jersey the following year, followed by the mother of all TT/F1 extravaganzas at Vicki Smith’s Ducstock event last year at Barber Motorsports Park. But at Barber, we were still (but for the half-dozen racers) a distance from the track itself and we came away with that event with a desire to get the gathering into the pits and onto the track. The TTs (and their hot-rodded F1 cousins) are after all; pure racers – many of which are fully prepped for battle.
So, for 2012, the 4th Annual Ducati TT/F1 Symposium moves north to New Hampshire Motor Speedway www.nhms.com; a tight, twisty track in the Northeast US.
Connecticut enthusiast Mike Weber put a substantial amount of time into bringing a new Ducati TT and F1 class into the Loudon Road Racing Series for 2012 and this lets our machines duke it out on a more level playing field. The new class structure and a ‘perfect storm’ of events let Mike create a really neat, multi-discipline program for the 2012 Symposium that offers racing, track time and of course, the already famous static display of these amazing bikes...more
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The TT1 was never planned.
But Lou Saif persisted and eventually put one of Jimmy Adamo's big-tube DM frames and some bodywork in my hands and then Palmer sold me a bunch of his F1 stuff, and then I found a nice cache of TT1 stuff...
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Kent rider Steve Mercer signs for the Millsport Racing Ducati team for the 2012 Isle of Man TT races. Mercer, who made his TT debut in 2009, will ride the team's Ducati 1199 Panigale machines in the Superbike, Superstock and Senior races.
"I think it will be a serious machine on both roads and Circuits. 2012 can't come soon enough," he said....more
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3 Great Options For A Wet Sunday on londonbikers.com.
The hot off the press TT-3D film
Duke Video’s annual TT review DVD, this one of the 2011 event
And for those who prefer to actually be able to see the scenery as it passes, Overland magazine. Extras include a lap with Mick Doohan, Nicky Hayden and Cal Crutchlow plus a look at Yamaha's 50th Anniversary celebrations as well a special feature with Murray Walker.
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New grandstands and 'fan zones' around the course to to be introduced for 2012 Isle of Man TT races.
Wow. Nice find SuperbikePlanet. Great account of an event that's hard to capture in a well rounded way.