Ducati built a Harley, who knew?

[pressureangle]

Lots of ??? there.  Looks like aermacchi cases- which were all for a pushrod drivetrain, including the ER and CR series bikes- mated to a Ducati bevel drive twin front cylinder. **

If that's a real running riding bike and not just photoshop, it would not be a cheap or simple build.

Edit **including ohc head (whether desmo or spring valve) and bevel drive for tach.

It's real.

[cliffrod]

It's real.

Yours?  Details?

[Chuck in Indiana]

It's all true Chuck, I've done it myself.  But the fella was probably a Canadian and his speedo was reading in kilometres per hour. They will do 160+ - just not Mph.

Nick

I asked him if it was 160 K, but he insisted it was mph.  I just smiled and nodded..

[GeorgiaGuzzi]

I asked him if it was 160 K, but he insisted it was mph.  I just smiled and nodded..

This reminds me of quirk of my victory. The speed sensor is a Hall effect type mounted over the front drive sprocket. Once in a great while during a hard launch it will shoot up like a rocket!!! The first time it ever did it I was at first like “dang she running good today” then when it passed 125 and I was turning 4500 rpms I went to “waiiiiiit a minute” mode! I figured out it was running about 40 mph off. Still wished I had a helmet go pro for that. “Nah really, my Victory goes way past 130!” Lol

One of the naked sport bike riders on the Facebook group I’m on posted a pic of his 600 doing 174. When people started looking close he had photoshopped kph to mph. He got roasted!!!

[Two Checks]

I don't recall any V4 Harley.....

[oldbike54]

I don't recall any V4 Harley.....

 The Nova project.

 Dusty

[Two Checks]

Good thing they didn't build em. We didn't need twice the number of leaking cylinders and straight pipes...

[Dukedesmo]

Back in the late '70s, a friend had a 125cc 2-stroke Harley Davidson.


This was in Italy and IIRC the bike was basically a Cagiva, built in Italy and branded HD - presumably to be 'cool'...

[oldbike54]

Back in the late '70s, a friend had a 125cc 2-stroke Harley Davidson.


This was in Italy and IIRC the bike was basically a Cagiva, built in Italy and branded HD - presumably to be 'cool'...

Would have probably been a Rapido built in the Aermacchi factory taken over by Cagiva . Those had been around since the sixties .

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Would have probably been a Rapido built in the Aermacchi factory taken over by Cagiva . Those had been around since the sixties .

Cagiva didn't buy Aermacchi from Harley until '78, so this ^^^.

[Tusayan]

Back in the late '70s, a friend had a 125cc 2-stroke Harley Davidson.  This was in Italy and IIRC the bike was basically a Cagiva, built in Italy and branded HD - presumably to be 'cool'...

The chronology is the opposite of what you’ve assumed.  HD owned Aermacchi from the 1960s until 1978 when it was sold to Cagiva, a new brand at that time.  The SS and SX two stroke Harleys built by Aermacchi pre-1978 continued in production as Cagivas after their purchase of Aermacchi from Harley.  Cagiva evolved them into the early 80s, but the first Cagivas were just rebadged HD Aermacchis.

[pressureangle]

Yours?  Details?

Not mine, haven't seen it IRL. Came up on Aermacchi forums. Europe I'm sure.

This joke has gotten out of hand...lol