Save this Cagiva 900!

[chuck peterson]

Friends shouldn’t let friends put those bags on that bike! Its just not right... not allowed by law..a dispersion on the quality and character...its like a motorcycle with an automatic transmission, its just not right! Oh, wait...

https://westernmass.craigslist.org/mcy/d/westfield-2000-cagiva-gran-canyon-900/7125856440.html

[Groover]

I think the bags are there to prevent the bike from flipping back too far when popping wheelies 

[oldbike54]

 Well , Cagiva operates in the old Aermacchi factory , which was owned for a few years by the MoCo ....

 Dusty

[Rough Edge racing]

Ad states 118,000 miles......Ducati engine?

[jwinwi]

Ad states 118,000 miles......Ducati engine?

I think that's 118,xxx Kilometers and a properly maintained Ducati will easily do that distance.
Rode with a guy who put over 100K Miles on 1990(?) 750 Sport.

[Tusayan]

I bought a Gran Canyon brand new for $6500 and it was a pretty nice motorcycle, especially for that price.  Service access was problematic (this is a Terblanche design like the ST Ducatis) but the main reason I eventually sold it was that an accidentally broken tail light lens necessitated a year long worldwide search for parts - the light is integrated into the outer shell of the plastic rear fender and several parts were broken.  In the end one dealer called me back after several months and said that by pure chance he’d found the last part I needed in the bottom of an unmarked box in the parts room.  Not wanting to repeat that exercise with a utility bike I decided it would be better off with somebody else.

The speedo and odometer is indeed calibrated in kilometers.

[Groover]

It does look like a bevel.


Edit: Sounds like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ-NaVCcUCo

[fotoguzzi]

Why two gas caps?

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

It does look like a bevel.

Belt driven cams, not bevel gear driven.

[Chuck in Indiana]

I actually did laugh out loud when I clicked on the side view. What an unholy marriage. I *am* a firm believer in "run what you brung" but I just can't imagine anyone holding that bag up there and saying, "Yeah.. that looks good."

[Groover]

Belt driven cams, not bevel gear driven.

This reveals my knowledge on bevels (0.001?) ... I thought the name came from the shape that the angle of the cylinders made 

[Two Checks]

The position of the cylinders match the bike the bags came from...


Ducati calls the engine a L twin rather than a V.

[BrotherJim]

Forget the bike, I want that Knaack box full of petrified old tires!  Not really.  I've got a friend that has a Ducati Elefant, which I think* is the same machine.  I really hope those bags are easily removable with something other than a sledgehammer.   

[moto-uno]

  You're right about getting the bags off , They're the only attractive thing in that picture ! , Peter

[BobA]

Has some resemblance to a Quota to my untrained eye. And someone put 114K miles on it so it should be well sorted. The leathers might have fit me in junior year in HS. For at least one weekend when i had to cut weight to for a wrestling match. Certainly not since. Pretty cool looking but I don't care for my Quota either so I'm passing.

[rschrum]

Same engine as the ducati 900ss.

[TDF]

Uhhhhh, that luggage is painful to look at.  Dual gas caps are a gimmick.  One fills one side of the tank, other fills the other but because they are linked it's not really needed they equalize in time.  Little brother has one of these.  Hes put quite a few miles on it, and it's a keeper.  Better wind protection than my quota, although his has the tall windsheild, that one is the short one or even a cut down one, great riding position.  Decent power from the duck twin.  I'm always impressed when I get to ride it.  I wonder if the mileage is really rolled over 118? Or only 18, and a typo?  Doesnt look like it's got a ton of kilometers on it but hard to tell from online photos. 

TDF

[Tusayan]

Same engine as the ducati 900ss.

It’s actually equivalent to a late 90s Monster engine, the heads are different, but with fuel injection that didn’t arrive on the Monster until 2000.  About 5 HP less than a 900SS engine.

[huub]

I've got a 900 ie elegant, virtually the same bike.
Great bike, light years ahead of quotas, v storms  or other big triallies. 
Off road only matched by the big ktm twins.
The only issue with the cagiva is access to the engine, you should check the demo heads every 10.000 km but the heads are pretty impossible to reach,
Any change of shims means dropping the engine.
 :violent1:9

[Rough Edge racing]

It’s actually equivalent to a late 90s Monster engine, the heads are different, but with fuel injection that didn’t arrive on the Monster until 2000.  About 5 HP less than a 900SS engine.

I believe both the valve sizes and cams are different on 97 and newer Monsters. My 96 900M has the heads stamped V2 which I'm told are the bigger valves and more aggressive cams...

[Tom]

I like the bags.     

[Tusayan]

I believe both the valve sizes and cams are different on 97 and newer Monsters. My 96 900M has the heads stamped V2 which I'm told are the bigger valves and more aggressive cams...

Yes, that's what I was saying in my post above.  The GC engine is a Monster engine of the same year, meaning 1998 onward, plus fuel injection which was not installed on 900 Monsters until MY 2000.

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

the 118,xxx kilometers is accurate and it's a 1-owner bike. Seller is professional mechanic, says he's put every mile on it since new.