Red,

I must be pretty sad compared to you. I have owned mine for just under four years and put about 1,200km on the clock. She now has 41,000km.

The previous owner is one one my Dad's friends and he owned her for about 13 years and used to trailer her down to the Eastern Transvaal (countryside with twisty bits about 4 hours drive away). He also ran her on Avgas (has a higher lead content than our leaded petrol), which I did for the first two and a half years until they wouldn't sell it to me any longer at the airport !

She has three main modifications, two of which were made before the previous owner had her (ie. more than 16 years ago). The previous owner reckoned she came from the factory with the twin Dell Orto PHM 40s and the rising rate rear linkage (that prevents the fitting of a centre stand). The more modern change is a locally produced exhaust system. I have some pictures which I will upload to the forum soon.

I bought her a nice original cover about two years ago from Gowanloch Ducati in Sydney. Even with delivery and import duty it was cheaper than the local ones.

Paul

Well, I'm not sure, with my 750. I broke my third speedo cable this weekend hitting a particularly hard shelf in the road. Since I never paid a lot of attention to MPH but rather RPM, I usually didn't swap a new one right in ... so I've gone seasons without racking up miles. It says about 8800mi on the clock right now, but judging by oil changes and service intervals I put it up in the 14k range.

I'm running stock everything, except the jets in my Weber. That's about to change too, thanks to a finely detailed investigation courtesy of John Fiore.

My 1991 907 i.e. shows 26,000km but has about 4,000 broken cable kms on it also. I'm about 85 miles east of Toronto and my longest voyage on her was to Las Vegas and back.

Regards, B