I'm an interloper! I don't own a Paso. Well, maybe I do own a bit of one... and that's the reason for this post! I have a few Ducs, one of which is a 1994 Superlight III, which I imported into Oz a couple of years ago.

I have just got it ready for the road and have tried to register it and came across a problem. The problem is that although the bike is a 1994 model, the VIN on the frame is only 15 digits - which makes it pre-'89 (according to my research).

Even odder, the VIN looks to me like an engine number, and even odder still, strikes me as being a Paso number (hence this post)!

On the headstem the following is stamped:

ZDM906SC2*013498* (The asterix are part of the number)

Just underneath is another number:

DGM53053OM (that's five three zero, five three 'oh')

On the frame there's a black plate riveted just above the swing arm mount on the r/h side that repeats the ZDM906 number above.

Searching through this forum I noticed that this is very similar to a 750 Paso VIN (ZDM750 blah blah), even the reference to the plate location abpve the swingarm so.... I am now suspecting that the frame's from a Paso. No, I don't (didn't?) know these would be able to be fitted to a Superlight OR perhaps someone drank too much Ouzo on the day they stamped the VIN on this bike and it's a SS frame but with a Paso VIN?

So what's my point/question? Well, can you 906 Paso owners look at your VINs and let me know if indeed this does match a Paso VIN? At least then I will know why the VIN is an odd one. Note that this is the VIN, not the engine number which is ZDM904blahblah..)

Many thanks all

ward/.

If the frame tubes are square, it is probably a Paso frame. If the frame tubes are round, then.....I have no idea what to make out of the numbers.

Hey - my bad. I looked at the numbers and compared them to the VINs on my SS and thought "odd, what's the 906?". BUT since then I've learnt that a lot of Superlights / SS models of '94 and earlier have the 906 in the VIN (see below)... AND (more embarrassingly) there's no way it could be a Paso frame as they are indeed square tubing and this is a stock round-tube trellis frame.



So, from what I have learnt over the past few days it seems that this is really a chassis number (as opposed to a VIN) and the VIN should have been added as a riveted steel plate (which wasn't). Later (post '94?) the chassis number was no longer used and was replaced by the VIN etched on the headstem.

Thanks for the time and effort all.

anyhow, you can't make mistakes about frame shape.
The SS frame is almost the same since '70s and the paso is VERY different!

Fraser imports Homebush import the Dukes from Italy and then weld little plates on the headstock with Australian Compliance Vins, The PASO did not require this, later the bikes did. My 888 had the same thing which at first I thought nothing off but years later when I sold it the person buying thought I was trying to sell a stolen bike. The best part is the apprentice stamping the numbers on the little plate some times got it wrong so nothing matched up. Warren Lee at Frasers Homebush Australia could probably give you bike history as he is the manager there these days