New to the forum

[slowpants]

Hello to all of you.
Let me start by saying thanks for a great and extremely informative forum.
So much helpful information. Well done.

I have recently been playing around with some old ducs that my brother and I acquired about 15 years ago.
They have basically been sitting in a pile since then, in a back room of my fathers garage in upstate New York.
I live in Brooklyn and have finally gotten to a point where I can spend quite a bit of time up there playing around.
I convinced my father into letting me build a little shop area in the 3rd bay of his garage.
Tore a wall down, which required moving all the old duc stuff, and extended it back some to make more room.
As I'm going through it all I realized that I really like these bikes. So have decided to finally do something with them.
I don't have any experience in vintage stuff but have a basic background with mechanics.
So I am learning a ton by just playing around and trying to soak up as much as I can from forums like this one.


There are 4 frames and several motors in various states, along with a 99% complete 1964 90cc Mountaineer.
Not a desmo in the bunch, but some really cool stuff.
These old motors are absolutely beautiful to look at. Kind of jewelry like in some aspects.
I am having a great time going through it all, cleaning some of the engines up and just generally tinkering with them.

Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for all the info here.
I'm sure I am going to have a lot of questions in the upcoming rebuilds.
I'll try to post some pictures, if I can figure out how to do it. I'm better with bikes than I am with the internets.

Cheers.

-karl

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Lets see if I can get this to work....

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Success!! I think..
Some more then....
This is, I believe, whats left of a 70-71 450 scrambler.





This will be the first project for me as it is the most complete of all of them.
Not looking to do a proper restore, just get it to run and figure it out from there.
I need to work out a carb for it, the one on it in the pic is a Dellorto SS1 from a 250 that I have, just put it on there to see what it would look like.
I do not believe it would be sufficient to run the 450 though.
Also contemplating switching to a 12 volt system. Lots of info here on that. Thanks again.
Ton of other stuff to do too. Fun stuff though!!

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Here is the next most complete....

It's a 250 narrowcase scrambler, not sure what year though.
Anyone have an idea?
The motor was frozen and I feared the worst. Turned out, at least on the surface, to be all in the top end.
We shall see.


While I was cleaning the head up is when it all happened for me....
I absolutely fell in love with this stuff (maybe I just need to get a life, whatever).









More to come....

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More stuff....

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Some more 250 narrowcase stuff and a widecase 350.



Another narrowcase 250 with a mouse nest and random bits.

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Anyone know what this frame and fork is??
It's for a widecase motor, thats about all I can tell



Not sure what this is either. It's where I have been salvaging bits a pieces for the 450 project.
It didn't come with an engine and is pretty much rusted solid.



Or this tank?? I'm not even sure if it's from a Ducati....

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Ok.... last one.
I apologize for all the pictures and questions, just trying to figure out what all this stuff is.

Last but not least, is this little guy.
I think its a mountaineer?








Thanks for any help.

-karl

[DewCatTea-Bob]

____ Welcome to our list of members here Karl !
From what I've read so far, I gather it seems you're of the rare type of biker who's able to realize the enchanting uniqueness of these particular top Italian-machines, and seem to indeed possess the Ducati-gene to become a full-fledged Duker.
__ I'm wondering how you had come to acquire all your old Duke-stuff ?
____ I'm currently not on a PC which allows me to see all of your entire pictures very well, so I (myself) will have to answer your questions about them later. _ Hopefully someone-else here with a modern PC/monitor will sooner begin tackling some of your pic.inquiries.


Duke-Cheers,
-Bob

[JimF]

Welcome to the forum!

I am afraid I can't tell you anything that you didn't already know. I too think the little bike is a Mountaineer.

And like you I don't think that tank is a Ducati tank. At least it's nothing that I recognize. Perhaps it's from a Benelli? Who cares though? If it fits and looks good on one of your projects and you aren't attempting a full restoration why not use it?

That weird frame looks like a home-brew job to shorten the tail.

The 450 is your only widecase, right? Did you say you were scrounging parts from one of the narrowcase bikes? There are people in the know on the list that can advise you on what if anything is transferrable from narrow to wide case.

Jim