Ducati South Africa
In the early days, Ducati reserved the desmodromic valve heads for its higher performance bikes and its race bikes. These valves do not suffer from valve float at excessive engine speeds, thus a desmodromic engine is capable of far higher revolutions than a equally configured engine with traditional spring-valve heads. The Ducati Paso was launched in 1986 with the Paso 750, adopted in 1989 with the Paso 906. The last version came in 1991 with the 907IE , now with out the name “Paso”. The design was from the hand of Massimo Tamburini, who additionally designed the Ducati 916 and MV Agusta F4. However, at the moment it looked like that every one-enclosed bodywork could be the future for all bikes. The Paso design was copied for the Moto Morini Dart 400 and Cagiva Freccia a hundred twenty five.
Together with Tamburini’s Bimota DB1, they were enormously influential by way …