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| 1979 NCRTT-1 950 ENDURANCE |
 1979 NCRTT-1 950 ENDURANCE
MAN TT CLASSIC USED 1979
MIKE HAILWOOD RIDE.
FACTORY MADE FIVE BIKE.
THIS BIKE NO #4
EG NO DM860 088982
FRAME NO 860 089901
This motorcycle which Ducati-Factory prepared for Mike Hailwood and his participation in the Isle of Man classic TT was made in 1979. For Mike and George
Forgaty, however, it was hard to run by a test in a Mallory Park and a practice in the TT Classic. In fact, Mike recorded only 89.97 mile/h in a practice
run. In consequence, she started with George in the TT classic, instead of Mike. In that race, she was fallen down intensely at Signpost Corner (We heard
this from Rino Caracchi in 2001). After that, she returned to Italy by Ducati, from the donation by Franco Farne and Rino.
The mark on head pipe in Navy and yellow-gold color would be a verification of MOT in the Classic TT. When we got her, she had an extremely long front-
fork, a quite hard suspension, and an angled handle which was used for the TT-1 in 1978. A fork inner tube and the original handle would be buckled,
because of an accident in the classic TT, by George. Originally, she had a front folk, 600 mm in length, with an overhang of 35 mm and a handle with 20o
angle which was made in 1979. Now, she has an original handle, but a grounding of front tyre is bad, as we mentioned above. Because a top york had an
engraved mark of #2, it would be converted. A front wheel would also be from some one of #1, #3, or #5. In a green color at the lower left of a petrol
tank, it has a repair by brush painting for a fixation of crazing in an accident of the classic TT. Rino had an overhaul of her engine by himself.
Otherwise, whole parts including a shield and painting are genuine. In a front fairing, there is a handwriting signature "Mike Hailwood".
After such repairing and restration by Ducati, she moved to a garage of G-Carniel, the Vald'oise Competition, France. She would be displayed in a
showroom of the Vald'oise Competition, as the most featuring motorcycle. At that time, Ducati gave the Vald'ois e Competition due respect, because they
had a vigorous race activity. Actually, they organized a race competition on a chartered NCR.
We can see a picture of her arrival at France in 1981, on the book written by Ian Faloon; we also confirmed this by Ian, directly. Because G-Carniel and
his wife had a close friendship with Mike and Pauline, Mike's wife, and Mike had gone in an accident of 1981, G-Carniel inherited her. After passing away
of Carniel, she moved to the Collezione-Giappone and stocked in our garage from 90's.
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| EXPOSITION |
1979ファクトリー、エンデユーロバイク。
FACTORYで、5台作られ、現存は、イタリアに、1台、日本に1台、オリジナルで現存するのは2台のみ。
マン島で、クラシックTT用に、マイク用に、デリバリーされたバイク。
予選は走ったものの、ファイナルは、スズキで走ったため使われなかった。
その後、フランスの、VAL D’OISE COMPETITIONに渡り、ルマン、ボルドールに、エントリーした、戦歴がある。
インレットバルブに、46Mを使い、エキパイは50M，ヘッドも砂型で、全ては、別物である。一見、1978BIKEと同じエンジンに見えるが、内部のギア周りパーツ、シリンダー、コンロッドに互換性が、まったくなく違うユニットである。
オリジナル状態で、ペドレッテイー、ネッポテー、カラッキコメントペーパー有り。
また、1979TTクラシックは、マイクに変わり、急きょジョージ フォガティーが
ファイナルでドライブしたが、結局クラッシュしてしまう。写真のフロントフォークチューブ
オリジナルで2本ともに曲がりがある。結構きついクラッシュだったのだろう。タンク左の
グリーンの部分にも補修個所がある。なお、チューブは、620MMの設定になっている。
スプリングは異様に硬く、一度この状態でコースに出たことがあるが、ボトムしても沈まなかった
覚えがある。
現在は、OH終了し、いつでも、コースに出れる状態である。全て、オリジナルコンデション。 |
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