Latest piece of fast

[HardDrive]

2000 748S. 12k, all services just done. Full Ferracci exhaust system.

[motion]

Nice. That Tamburini design is the best ever, IMHO.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Did you buy another bike?

[island911]

Weird, a blue sidewalk with a yellow Duc. --that can't be right.

Damnit, my screen must have lost it's red component.

[HHI944]

That's the bike I learned to ride on (well, probably not that exact one). It was an Army buddy's. He ended up totalling it and in the process missing a deployment because of his injuries.

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

Did you buy another bike?

Yeah. I couldn't resist. I'm going to give the Supersport a thorough restoration, and its probably going to take me a while. I've always loved the 748.

[porsche4life]

I had the chance to trade for a Monster of that vintage... I passed cuz it needed work... If it was that thing I would be a duc owner I do believe....

[tcar]

Originally Posted by island911

Weird, a blue sidewalk with a yellow Duc. --that can't be right.

That's what they call bright sunshine in Seattle... and Pandora.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Yeah. I couldn't resist. I'm going to give the Supersport a thorough restoration, and its probably going to take me a while. I've always loved the 748.

Wasn't there a post or two about 748 engine longevity? Just caught bits of it.

Anyway, congratulations, beautiful bike! What does it feel like compared to the 900SS?

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

Anyway, congratulations, beautiful bike! What does it feel like compared to the 900SS?

It'll make the SuperSport feel like a barcalounger. That's both good and bad. Congrats on the 748. Possibly the most beautiful sportbike of modern time.

[HardDrive]

No seat time yet. Hopefully I can get some dry pavement for a couple hours tomorrow.

[motion]

Oh hey & find a mono seat on eBay so you can lose the pass footpegs. Really cleans it up.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Noah930

Possibly the most beautiful sportbike of modern time.

Idk...

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by motion

Oh hey & find a mono seat on eBay so you can lose the pass footpegs. Really cleans it up.

It came with one.

[Noah930]

Sidney, that 675 is a looker, too. But it won't have the aesthetic instant-classic staying power of the 916 bodystyle, which came out in 1994 yet still looks fresh today. And as competent as Triumph triples are, there's a sexiness that no one else has managed to capture regularly quite as well as the Italians seem to do. Elefant and Multistrada excepted.

[porsche4life]

Yes but the Triumph actually works works when you twist the loud handle....

[HardDrive]

Got some saddle time today. I rode my 98 SS and the 748 back to back.

A bit suprised by the power delivery. On paper the 748 is making 20+ HP more than my SS, but it really shows you how HP does not tell you the whole story. The 900cc 2v delivers more grunt in the low end, so puttering around town, it actually feels stronger.....to a point. As the revs come up, the 900 starts to get out of breath, and the 748 starts to sing.

The SS is no slouch in the handling department, but the 748 feels much tighter. Way, way more flickable. The suspension is planted, and inspires confidence. No nervous quirks.

Seating position....LOL. Lets just say I won't be touring on it much.

With the mono tail on:

[nynor]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Yes but the Triumph actually works works when you twist the loud handle....

your experience with triumph and mine must be vastly different.

love the 748. one of the sweetest looking fairings of all time and a wicked sweet bike to boot.

[Schumi]

One of my fondest near-death memories of youthful stupidity was had on one of those wonderful machines.


Schumi story time.


I was about 20, home from college, going to go on a date with the hottest girl I'd known in high school and never had been with before... we'd started talking and I told her I'd take her out and we'd hit up this party while I was home blah blah blah.. I was feeling pretty good.

That afternoon I was playing some music at a friend's house who I'd known forever when his cousin brings up his 748. Bright yellow. Less than 6,000 miles. Their whole family was into Ducs... I'd seen my friend, his cousin, and his dad pass around 748's, 900SS's, 916's etc over the years.

So I admire the machine a bit and say that I gotta head over and pick up Kelly for our date. She lived about 3 miles down the highway, out in a rural area. Brad had seen my helmet in my Jeep earlier when I was talking about some autocrossing, and he says "grab your helmet"... I didn't get it at first, then he tosses the keys to the 748 to me. I'm still a bit confused. He says "Go pick her up on that and bring her back here."

Now Brad assumes I'm a pretty smart guy and I guess somehow (mistakenly) thinks I ride. I don't. I'd been on very few two wheeled motorized devices before. Yet without thinking, I take the bike. I rode at about 10 mph all the way down the long driveway, contemplating what I thought was about to be my own death. I'd done similar things before, knowing that, given such pronounced opportunity, I cannot resist temptation.

Surely enough, I pulled out on to the empty highway and within a few seconds was straight lining-it at about 130 mph.

I pulled up to Kelly's house, and she's on the porch on the phone. She doesn't know who I am with the helmet and the bike and all. I take off the helmet and look across the yard at her, and as I do she says into the phone ".... holy %#&. gotta go". She grabs her helmet (she actually roe a lot with her dad who was a big bike guy, choppers and stuff) and we took off, repeating the 130 or so MPH run back down 3 or 4 miles of highway. There were a few twisties that were making my ass pucker up trying to keep this thing on the road, but all in all it went smooth.

As did the rest of the night... I couldn't have asked for a better start though. She was about 5'10", blonde, 105 lbs, and a dancer-slash-cosmetologist-in-school. Yep, you know her.




Aaaaaaaaanyways... ever since then I've wanted a 748. Just to putt around, y'know....

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Truly beautiful HD, enjoy it safely.