Doesn't look like any scramblers I used to watch, sounds like a company dragging up another retro term (& getting it wrong IMO) to make sales. 'cafe racer' mustve worn off so just change the label, chuck some chunky tyres on it & add a few $K
yz490,
Oct 6, 10:17pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuZk5q0qCs showing your age if you remember scrambles lol, the good old days, cast iron B33 landing hard & splitting the gearbox through the middle. Jampot Matchy bottoming out so hard it ripped the top mounts out of the frame, then after welding 'that' up the front downtube broke & knocked me out cold lol, all at the same meeting--Woodville. Sorry reminiscing again sorry--what was the subject.
sr2,
Oct 6, 10:54pm
Fantastic - and another. (Even the old Pommy cars in the carpark are great!
I think the Ducati is aimed at the "off tarseal" market with minimal offroad use. I find myself thinking of the early Honda 175 and 350cc scrambler. It will probably fulfil that market projection quite well.
muzz67,
Oct 7, 2:57am
Typical 'adventure' bike now,, hardly capable of crossing a grass verge. kinda like any modern 4wd.
whqqsh,
Oct 7, 5:03am
EGGGzzzactly what I was thinking!
reb53,
Oct 7, 5:30am
Well, I certainly remember the one in "Vanishing Point".
muzz67,
Oct 7, 5:32am
You were looking at the bike?!?
gunhand,
Oct 7, 5:33am
But why? With out googling, what colour was it lol.
reb53,
Oct 7, 5:58am
Only for a fraction of a second.
yz490,
Oct 7, 6:02am
Here's a heart warming sound. My last british before the Jap invasion was one of these, same colour same model, unit T100. I'll save this for the sound alone i think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTaopTd7vJ4
sr2,
Oct 7, 6:25am
Music to my ears. In 1971 at the tender age of 15 years after having owned and paddock bashed a Hobby Motor Scooter, an elderly 150cc James and a 150 Jawa I bought my 1st road legal bike - a 58 T100 pre-unit. In hindsight I'd give my left nut to have it sitting in the man-cave today. On reflection I'd give my right nut to have my Dads old Square Four Ariel sitting alongside it! Just as well it's all ancient history and I'm reduced to wobbling around Woodhill bike park on my CRF250X (in between the obligitory frequent 'nana naps' in the carpark!).
oliver6,
Oct 7, 6:53am
You should look at Chris Birch in Otago videos 0n the big KTM. They are very capable offroad with the right rider. I have a 640 adventure and a 690 with an adventure kit and they are capable of going anywhere a dedicated offroader from 30 years ago went.
muzz67,
Oct 7, 7:02am
Your bikes are the perfect adventure bikes, ie 50/50. 1000cc machines are more like 95/5(unless you're superhuman like CB), wheres the adventure riding an offroad styled bike on the road?
oliver6,
Oct 7, 7:04am
Many of them are image only, but some are the real business.
trogedon,
Oct 7, 7:41am
Great vid. Cool topless girlie posters in the workshop(no safety glasses on guys using the lathe!) and that paralyzed sales manager would be an inspriation.
bwg11,
Oct 7, 8:24am
Thanks for the suggestion. Brilliant videos, a real nostalgia trip for me, as I did 1000's kms off-road in Otago during the late 70's and early 80's both on bikes and 4 x4's.
oliver6,
Oct 7, 8:29am
Isn't it great. I ride there 2 or 3 times per year. I have just ridden from Toowoomba to Cape York and back including some serious off road tracks. The BMW rally was there and those big bikes were doing everything. Admittedly a few riders went home by helicopter.
bwg11,
Oct 7, 8:53am
Here are two pics from back then - probably the only bikes to make the summit of Mt St Bathans and a typical river crossing:
but would a Ducati 'Scrambler' make it. without serious modification?
oliver6,
Oct 7, 9:58am
It'sreally a road bike. However they do what you want them to do. I had a GT750 waterbus for work, touring adventure riding, and I even raced it. Then I had an RD 350 for all uses including racing and addventure rides in forestry and farmland. I wouldn't do it now but then was then.
whqqsh,
Oct 7, 10:07am
so it isn't a 'scrambler' then is it? as I stated previously it's a label dragged up from the past to get sales. & the millennials, hipsters & posers will flock to them, mores the pity
That Desert Sled would get me down the beach to the river mouth with a scoop net over me shoulder . Wouldn't enjoy cleaning it though . A lot of bikes start out just as a styling exercise , Jo Blog likes it so they build it . Been awhile since i have seen a Gagiva Elefant on the road 1 of the early adventure styled bikes . .
whqqsh,
Oct 7, 8:53pm
would have to be hard sand, doesnt look like its doing too well in even a few inches of soft stuff by the way that back wheels digging in on that not too soft sand compared to the front. It sure is aimed at the sanitised urban market
desmodave,
Oct 7, 9:15pm
That's the nature of soft sand , don't matter what flavor the bike is .
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