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When Ducati's great engineer Fabio Taglioni designed the 750 Ducati in 1970 there was no way he could comprehend how important this model would be. His design was unlike any other before or since; a 90-degree V-twin with single overhead camshafts driven by a train of bevel gears. Taglioni soon developed his 750 into a Formula 750 racer, and in 1972 beat the rest of what the world had to offer at the Imola 200. With this victory, the desmodromic 750 became a legend. Ducati responded by producing a hand-built limited production desmodromic Super Sport. They also continued to produce the touring 750 GT and sporting 750 Sport until legislation killed them at the end of 1974. Today, this triumvirate of 750s represents the end of an era; the era before cost accounting and government design requirements. These were among the last pure, unadulterated sporting motorcycles built and it is not surprising they have inspired a new generation of retro classics, the Sport Classic of 2005 and 2006.
| ISBN | 1845840127 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781845840129
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 875 | | Publisher | Veloce Publishing Ltd | | Published in | Dorset | | Imprint | Veloce Publishing Ltd | | Series title | Bible | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 250 | | Publication date | 07 Sep 2006 | | Width (mm) | 207 | | DEWEY | 629.2275 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 160 | |
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Chapter 1 Historical Background Chapter 2 Development and prototypes, Pre-production 750 GT Chapter 3 1972 first production models; 750 GT and Sport Chapter 4 1973 750 GT, 750 Sport, and pre-production 750 SS Chapter 5 1974 All variants Chapter 6 Racing History
Two Wheels magazine, August 2007 If you're lucky enough to own a bevel-drive 750, want to own a bevel-drive 750, or just dream about it, then Two Wheels contributor Ian Falloon's The Ducati 750 Bible is probably required - and certainly recommended - reading. Particularly, if you're buying one. During the '70s, Ducati's manufacturing processes left a lot to be desired in terms of consistency, so originality is an extremely vexed question. Falloon has done more than anyone else to sort through the evidence to come up with some answers. This is now more valuable than ever, given the rising prices of bevel-drives and the surfacing of re-manufactured models that aren't quite what they to seem to be. Perhaps the most famous story concerns a fellow who bought Paul Smart's 1972 Imola-winning machine and, in an attempt to find out more, managed to get Smart's phone number. He asked Smart some technical questions about the machine and Smart answered in some depth. When asked how  Be the first to write a customer review
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