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{{Motorcycle | {{Motorcycle | ||
|name = Ducati TT2 600 | |name = Racing Bikes Ducati TT2 600 | ||
|aka = | |photo =Ducati-500-Pantah--TT2.jpg | ||
|manufacturer = | |aka = Pantah | ||
|manufacturer = | |||
|parent_company = | |parent_company = | ||
|production = | |production = 1982 - 1984 | ||
|model_year = | |model_year = | ||
|predecessor = | |predecessor = | ||
|successor = | |successor = | ||
|class = | |class = Racing | ||
|engine = | |engine = Four stroke, 90°L twin cylinder, SOHC, desmodromic 2 [[valve]] per cylinder,belt driven | ||
|bore_stroke = | |bore_stroke = | ||
|compression = | |compression = 10.2:1 | ||
|top_speed = | |top_speed = 204 km/h / 127 mph | ||
|power = | |power = | ||
|torque = | |torque = | ||
|fuel_system = | |fuel_system = | ||
|ignition = | |ignition = Bosch BTZ electronic | ||
|spark_plug = | |spark_plug = | ||
|battery = | |battery = 12V 14 Ah | ||
|transmission = | |transmission = 5 Speed | ||
|frame = | |frame = | ||
|suspension =Front: 35mm | |suspension =Front: 35mm Marzocchi telescopic fork <br> | ||
Rear: | Rear: Swinging arm, Marzocchi PVS1 single shock, adjustable preload and damping | ||
|brakes =Front: | |brakes =Front: 2 x 280 mm Discs, Brembo Gold Series <br>Rear: Single 260 mm disc, Brembo Gold Series | ||
|front_tire = {{tire| | |front_tire = {{tire|1982: 2.15 x 18 1983: 3.50 x 16}} | ||
|rear_tire = {{tire| | |rear_tire = {{tire|1982: 2.50 x 18 1983: 3.50 x 18}} | ||
|rake_trail = | |rake_trail = | ||
|wheelbase = | |wheelbase = | ||
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|width = | |width = | ||
|height = | |height = | ||
|seat_height = | |seat_height = 762 mm / 30.0 in | ||
|dry_weight = | |dry_weight = 148 kg / 326 lbs | ||
|wet_weight = | |wet_weight = | ||
|fuel_capacity = | |fuel_capacity = 18 L / 4.8 US gal / 4.0 Imp gal | ||
|oil_capacity = | |oil_capacity = | ||
|fuel_consumption = | |fuel_consumption = | ||
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|competition = | |competition = | ||
}} | }} | ||
The '''[[Ducati]] TT2 600''' was a air-cooled, four-stroke, 90-degree V-Twin, SOHC, desmodromic 2 valves per cylinder Sport Bike [[motorcycle]] produced by [[Ducati]] between 1981 and 1984. Claimed [[horsepower]] was 58.07 HP (43.3 KW) @ 10,500 RPM. | |||
The '''[[Ducati]] TT2 600''' was a air-cooled, four-stroke, 90-degree V-Twin, SOHC, desmodromic 2 valves per cylinder Sport Bike [[motorcycle]] produced by [[Ducati]] between 1981 and 1984. Claimed [[horsepower]] was 58.07 HP (43.3 KW) @ | It could reach a top speed of 204 km/h / 127 mph. | ||
==Engine== | ==Engine== | ||
The engine was a Air cooled cooled Four stroke, 90°L twin cylinder, SOHC, desmodromic 2 valve per cylinder,belt driven. The engine featured a 10.2:1 [[compression ratio]]. | |||
==Drive== | ==Drive== | ||
Power was moderated via the Wet, multiplate. | |||
==Chassis== | ==Chassis== | ||
It came with a | It came with a 1982: 2.15 x 18 1983: 3.50 x 16 front [[tire]] and a 1982: 2.50 x 18 1983: 3.50 x 18 rear tire. Stopping was achieved via 2 x 280 mm Discs, Brembo Gold Series in the front and a Single 260 mm disc, Brembo Gold Series in the rear. The front suspension was a 35mm Marzocchi telescopic fork while the rear was equipped with a Swinging arm, Marzocchi PVS1 single shock, adjustable preload and damping. The Ducati TT2600 was fitted with a 18 L / 4.8 US gal / 4.0 Imp gal fuel tank. The bike weighed just 148 kg / 326 lbs. | ||
== Photos == | |||
<gallery mode='packed-hover'> | |||
File:Ducati-500-Pantah--TT2.jpg|600px|Racing Bikes Ducati TT2600 | |||
File:Ducati-tt2--1.jpg|600px|Racing Bikes Ducati TT2600 | |||
File:Ducati-600TT1-84.jpg|600px|Racing Bikes Ducati TT2600 | |||
File:Ducati-500-Pantah--TT2--1.jpg|600px|Racing Bikes Ducati TT2600 | |||
File:Ducati-600TT1-85--1.jpg|600px|Racing Bikes Ducati TT2600 | |||
File:Ducati-tt2.jpg|600px|Racing Bikes Ducati TT2600 | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Overview == | |||
Ducati's 600cc racer has inspired a host of lookalikes but the | |||
Moto Vecchia version is the most affordable. Dave Colder wood | |||
tries the bike that Ducati should have built three years ago. | |||
LET'S get the story straight at the beginning: Ducati's | |||
Formula 2 racing bike came about in 1981 when the Italian | |||
motorcycle sport organization adopted regulations for one of | |||
their national championships which closely followed the world TT | |||
formula. To take advantage of this, Ducati NCR, the factory | |||
racing team, developed and built a limited batch of bikes for | |||
their team of riders. Their star rider, Massimo Broccoli, won | |||
the F2 title after a season-long battle with the Bimota factory | |||
team of KB2s the 'Laser' powered by overbored 500-4 Kawasaki | |||
engines. | |||
Ducati NCR had no plans that year for the world F2 series but | |||
arch Ducati dealers Sports Motorcycles of Manchester did. Using | |||
a chassis from a crashed road bike and a totally rebuilt factory | |||
development engine, Steve Wynne and Pat Slinn of Sports set | |||
about producing their own F2 bike. | |||
It's history now that Tony Rutter rode that bike to win the | |||
F2 TT in fine style with a fastest lap of 103.51mph. The second | |||
(and final) round of the world F2 championship that year was at | |||
the Ulster circuit of Dundrod where Rutter finished second | |||
behind Phil Mellor on a [[Yamaha RD350]] based machine. This time | |||
he rode a factory TT2 brought over specially by two Ducati | |||
bosses, a visit made all the more worthwhile because that | |||
placing was sufficient to win the world title. | |||
For the above report and the following details about the | |||
factory TT2s, we must applaud journalist Alan Cathcart who must | |||
be the only person to ever get more than 50% of the full story | |||
out of an Italian factory. His book Ducati Motorcycles (Osprey, | |||
£11.95), as well as being a thoroughly good read, is now the | |||
standard reference work for the marque. | |||
Cathcart's chapter on the recent racing successes of Ducati | |||
(aptly headlined 'Two cylinders can be better than four') | |||
reveals the following about the TT2 on which we can judge any of | |||
the 'works replicas' now being offered. | |||
Rutter's Dundrod bike was one of five factory TT2s which used | |||
the Pantah engine as a starting point but which were designed as | |||
racing machines in every other respect, including having a | |||
completely new monoshock frame. | |||
The TT2 was designed, as were all Ducatis of the past 25 | |||
years, by Ing Fabio Taglioni, a fabled character nowadays. | |||
According to Cathcart, who has actually managed to ride one, the | |||
TT2 'encompassed all Taglioni's insistence on light weight, | |||
efficient air penetration, wide power band and ease of | |||
handling'. | |||
The new frame was made by Verlicchi, who also made the | |||
standard Pantah frames, and consisted of a network of tubes | |||
weighing only 7kg. A Marzocchi shock absorber was used with that | |||
same firm's fully adjustable front forks. Wheels were either 16 | |||
or 18in depending upon riders' preferences Rutter chose 18in, | |||
we're told. Wheelbase was short at 55in and weight savings | |||
abounded on the bike to get it down to 148kg and that's complete | |||
with electric starter and battery as required by Italian rules. | |||
The motor was bored to 81mm rather than the road Pantah's | |||
80mm which with a stroke of 58mm gave a capacity of 597cc, 14cc | |||
more than the Pantah. With higher compression, bigger valves, | |||
40mm carbs, racing cams and careful engine assembly, it produced | |||
peak power of 78bhp at 10,500rpm with a good spread available | |||
upwards of 6000rpm. | |||
In 1982, the factory repeated its success at home in the | |||
Italian championship with Walter Cussigh doing the winning. They | |||
also provided a genuine dry-clutch on the bike to get it down to | |||
148kg and that's complete with electric starter and battery as | |||
required by Italian rules. | |||
The motor was bored to 81mm rather than the road Pantah's | |||
80mm which with a stroke of 58mm gave a capacity of 597cc, 14cc | |||
more than the Pantah. With higher compression, bigger valves, | |||
40mm carbs, racing cams and careful engine assembly, it produced | |||
peak power of 78bhp at 10,500rpm with a good spread available | |||
upwards of 6000rpm. | |||
In 1982, the factory repeated its success at home in the | |||
Italian championship with Walter Cussigh doing the winning. They | |||
also provided a genuine dry-clutch works bike for Tony Rutter in | |||
the world F2 series which was now three rounds Vila Real in | |||
Portugal had been added to the schedule. Sports Motorcycles | |||
continued their involvement, paying all expenses and burning not | |||
a little midnight oil when preparing the bikes. | |||
Rutter not only won the championship but every race, | |||
including a record TT lap of 109.27mph. His race speed would | |||
have earned him third place in the l000ccFl event. | |||
Since then, Rutter has won two more F2 world titles, still in | |||
association with Pat Slinn, and has set up his own company | |||
called 'Tony Rutter Racing Ltd'. An Fl bike has been added to | |||
the stable with a bore x stroke of 88 x 61.5mm for a capacity of | |||
750cc good enough to take third behind the works Hondas in | |||
'84. A similar plan of action is intended for '85. | |||
So that's the essential 1% of the story behind the Ducati | |||
works. | |||
Roy | |||
Thersby | |||
The | |||
Ducati Pantah | |||
TT2 road going version that you are displaying, | |||
was made and built by Roy Thersby, and sold from both his | |||
showrooms and Moto Vecchia, as all salesmen tend to leave things | |||
out, the main item was who made it and they claimed it as | |||
theirs. | |||
Thersby | |||
made 15 frames and Saxon 9-10 frames to the Thersby pattern, | |||
many of the modifications were copied by Ducati and Harris and | |||
most of the other frame builders round that time. | |||
Thersby | |||
never stopped building bikes and now has more 1980 models in his | |||
list, the famed 1984-85 750 F1 Racing he has started to remake | |||
giving the classic riders chance to make and ride one of the | |||
first super bikes to originate from Ducati. The 750 F1-Racing | |||
was not for sale, with it being used as the test bed for | |||
different suspensions and the later 4valve engine, leading to | |||
the 888, and 851. | |||
Thersby | |||
has one F1-R which has the Reno Leoni championship AMA engine | |||
fitted, which he spent many hours painstaking building to the | |||
Factory dimensions. | |||
The | |||
Ducati TT2 that you have listed now resides in the Barber Museum | |||
in Alabama USA. | |||
== | The first bike Thersby Produced at the Olympia show | ||
in 1984, I wonder where Ducati | |||
got the idea from to paint the | |||
750 F1-Racing, and the F1 road versions from, they revealed | |||
their new racing model at the Bologna show in 1985 then later in | |||
1985 the road going version of the Bike appeared. | |||
Roy | |||
Thersby | |||
==Specifications== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
!Make Model | |||
|Ducati 600 TT2 | |||
|- | |||
!Year | |||
|1982-84 | |||
|- | |||
!Engine Type | |||
|Four stroke, 90°L twin cylinder, SOHC, desmodromic 2 valve per cylinder,belt driven | |||
|- | |||
!Displacement | |||
|598 cc / 36.5 cu in | |||
|- | |||
!Bore X Stroke | |||
|81 x 58 mm | |||
|- | |||
!Cooling System | |||
|Air cooled | |||
|- | |||
!Compression | |||
|10.2:1 | |||
|- | |||
!Induction | |||
|Dell'Orto PHF36A (1983: Dell'Orto Malosssi 41 mm) | |||
|- | |||
!Ignition | |||
|Bosch BTZ electronic | |||
|- | |||
!Battery | |||
|12V 14 Ah | |||
|- | |||
!Max Power | |||
|1982: 55.9 kW / 76 hp @ 10500 rpm 1983: 57.4 kW / 78 hp @ 10500 rpm | |||
|- | |||
!Clutch | |||
|Wet, multiplate | |||
|- | |||
!Transmission | |||
|5 Speed | |||
|- | |||
!Primary Drive Ratio | |||
|1.944:1 (36/70) | |||
|- | |||
!Gear Ratios | |||
|1st 2.500 / 2nd 1.714 / 3rd 1.333 / 4th 1.974 / 5th 0.966:1 | |||
|- | |||
!Final Drive Ratio | |||
|3.15:1 (13/40) | |||
|- | |||
!Final Drive | |||
|Chain 520 DID | |||
|- | |||
!Front Suspension | |||
|35mm Marzocchi telescopic fork | |||
|- | |||
!Rear Suspension | |||
|Swinging arm, Marzocchi PVS1 single shock, adjustable preload and damping | |||
|- | |||
!Front Brakes | |||
|2 x 280 mm Discs, Brembo Gold Series | |||
|- | |||
!Rear Brakes | |||
|Single 260 mm disc, Brembo Gold Series | |||
|- | |||
!Front Tire | |||
|1982: 2.15 x 18 1983: 3.50 x 16 | |||
|- | |||
!Rear Tire | |||
|1982: 2.50 x 18 1983: 3.50 x 18 | |||
|- | |||
!Seat Height | |||
|762 mm / 30.0 in | |||
|- | |||
!Dry Weight | |||
|148 kg / 326 lbs | |||
|- | |||
!Fuel Capacity | |||
|18 L / 4.8 US gal / 4.0 Imp gal | |||
|- | |||
!Standing ¼ Mile | |||
|13.0 sec | |||
|- | |||
!Top Speed | |||
|204 km/h / 127 mph | |||
|} | |||
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