Tricolore paint scheme? (Italian flag colors)

[JJ]

saw this one in Daytona a few years ago

Yes Chuckster...this one is for YOU!!!

[Tusayan]

The original Tricolore was a bit different; it was signalling Ducati's--and by extension Italy's--return to top-level motorcycle racing.

The English guy (Steve Wynn/Sports Motorcycles) who owned & prepared the bike and paid Hailwood claimed that the color scheme was that of his sponsor, Castrol Oil, and had nothing to do with the Italian flag.  The idea for the paint scheme was in any case English, not Italian.  Factory NCR bikes as used by Ducati previously were typically painted red and silver. Later, after Hailwood won Ducati used the 'Castrol' scheme on the production Hailwood replica, without paying anything for use of either (more importantly) the Hailwood name, nor the paint scheme.    The Hailwood Replica was first production use of red/white/green and the second was the first series 851, ten years later.

[LowRyter]

What's with this Australian from Texas on a Japanese bike riding with Eye-talian colors?

[Huzo]

But Sicily wins the creepiest flag award....I truly do love it but man what a bazaar







The flag is characterized by the presence of the triskelion (trinacria) in its middle, the (winged) head of Medusa (Gorgon) and three wheat ears. The three bent legs allegedly represent the three points of the triangular shape of the island of Sicily, or the historical three valli of the island.[1] The present design became the official public flag of the Autonomous Region of Sicily on 4 January 2000, after the passing of an apposite law which advocates its use on public buildings, schools, city halls, and all the other places in which Sicily is represented.

The flag is bisected diagonally into regions colored red and yellow, red representing the municipality of Palermo, yellow representing Corleone, which in medieval times was an agricultural city of renown. Palermo and Corleone were the first two cities to found a confederation against the Angevin rule. Today, the triskelion (or trisceli) is also widely considered the actual symbol of Sicily. The symbol is also known as the trinacria, which is also an ancient name of Sicily. The name was also revived and used during the Aragonese period of the Kingdom of Sicily immediately after the Sicilian Vespers (1282) which ended Angevin rule.

For a minuteI thought they were her legs...!
Oh well....
That's buggered that idea....

[Huzo]

What's with this Australian from Texas on a Japanese bike riding with Eye-talian colors?

Australian ???

[LowRyter]

Edwards was born in Houston, Texas. At the age of three, his Australian father, Colin Edwards Sr. (an amateur motorcycle racer himself), introduced him to a minibike, and Edwards entered his first motocross race at the age of four. Over the next ten years, Edwards became one of the top-ranked junior motocross competitors in the USA, winning dozens of races in the 50cc to 80cc categories in local, regional and national events.

[Turin]

Castrol Racing colors

[Turin]

The English guy (Steve Wynn/Sports Motorcycles) who owned & prepared the bike and paid Hailwood claimed that the color scheme was that of his sponsor, Castrol Oil, and had nothing to do with the Italian flag.  The idea for the paint scheme was in any case English, not Italian.  Factory NCR bikes as used by Ducati previously were typically painted red and silver. Later, after Hailwood won Ducati used the 'Castrol' scheme on the production Hailwood replica, without paying anything for use of either (more importantly) the Hailwood name, nor the paint scheme.    The Hailwood Replica was first production use of red/white/green and the second was the first series 851, ten years later.



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Forgot something...

[vintage53]

One more of the Coppa.  And a early V7.
 

[Motormike]

A bit off topic, but since someone mentioned Colin Edwards, I have to post a link to one of the greatest Superbike duels of all time, Imola 2002.  To quote the Italian announcer, "fantastico"

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x64b9u

Man, what a race!

[JJ]

Hi Turin! 

How are you?

If you want to have some fun, and light-up Nolan Woodbury sometime, just send him this photo and say you are thinking about painting your Guzzi just like this and ask his opinion....

By the way, why don't you come to Cottonwood for our N.A.R. May 4-6?

[Turin]

Nolan wouldn't believe me for a second! I'll be coming up there this year. I don't know if the Le Mans racer will be ready, probably take the trusty old quota.

[Tusayan]

Forgot something...

So I did!  It's funny given that I had an '87 F1B exactly like the one you pictured above.  I think I flushed it out of my memory - I currently own four other Ducati twins, but regardless the F1B was the worst engineered motorcycle I've ever owned with the possible exception of my first, a lawnmower engine powered mini bike with a centrifugal clutch that lasted only a week or so.  I was happy to sell the F1 for what I had in it, after solving most of the problems...  When I figured out the factory had balanced the crankshaft incorrectly that was enough, I was done, and down the road it went!

Mid-80s Ducatis were mostly poor, them stealing the Hailwood/Castrol paint job and name out of desperation kind of says it all, but the 851 and '91 belt SS came along eventually and put Ducati back on their feet technically and otherwise.

[tris]

Does this count

[JJ]

Nolan wouldn't believe me for a second! I'll be coming up there this year. I don't know if the Le Mans racer will be ready, probably take the trusty old quota.

Right on!  I would like to sit on your Quota and see if I "fit" on it.. :1: