jo 46 ho / Is the 200 piston available ?

[Gboblebeef]

Sure, not a great pic, but it shows it, and my little falcon too. If anybody has any extra bodywork for this project, I am a very interested buyer.
Cheers, G

[Ducati Dude]

Sure, not a great pic, but it shows it, and my little falcon too. If anybody has any extra bodywork for this project, I am a very interested buyer.
Cheers, G

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Hi Bobble

Do you still have your camera ?

Are you able to pix the frame where the float bowl attaches ?
Ciao

Ducati Dude

[Gboblebeef]

The frame is currently in the Knoxville TN area and I am in Los Angeles. I expect to ship some more of my bikes here around the first part of Jan. Happy to send a pic when it gets here.
Cheers, G

[Gboblebeef]

Try this link, it has a number of good detail pics.

http://www.philaphoto.com/imageLibrary/ ... =67&pos=13

Cheers, G

[Ducati Dude]

Try this link, it has a number of good detail pics.

http://www.philaphoto.com/imageLibrary/ ... =67&pos=13

Cheers, G

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Hello Bobble

Will you please sell me this chassis

Ciao

Ducati Dude

[Gboblebeef]

Sorry, No.

[Ducati Dude]

Sorry, No.

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Grazie Bobble

Please let me know if your plans change

Ciao

DD

[DewCatTea-Bob]

By: Ducati Dude...
" I the 200 motor and piston available for sale ? "

____ Yes, I'd sell the NOS 200-piston but, finding & getting it shipped-out may be a problem.
Where are you located ?


" Do you have any pic ? "

____ I could likely provide a pic of the piston but the 200-motor has gotten well berried way in the back of my garage,, which is the main reason why it's not been up for sale, (and also because I'd wish to know about & approve of what it's new home would become and I've never before found such an interested party [who wasn't merely an intended middle-man] ).
__ Either pic.subject would appear pretty-much as expected, anyhow.
____ The 200-motor (along with most of the rest of the Duke it came in) came into my possession back in Sept.1972. _ It's only issue known of at the time was it's sparkplug-threads were damaged due to a previous-owner's wife forcing the s.plug partially-inward cross-threaded, which left most of the head's outermost s.plug-threads in fairly poor condition.
I cleaned-up the head's s.plug-threads fairly well with a thread-chaser (coated with thick-grease), and the remaining threads looked questionable as to whether they'd hold-up or not after trying to torque-down a new sparkplug. _ It turned-out that I was able to install a new s.plug as normal anyhow then and it next held-up through a full-throttle top-RPM test-run right afterwords, (despite the rather ugly/sparse remaining s.plug-threads).
__ Then about 200-miles later, (after I had concluded that the poor plug-threads were sufficiently trustworthy, I started-out on what was going to be my first out of town trip with the 200-motored Duke, but just before reaching the city-limits, the spark-plug surprisingly popped-out from the head, just after I had finished briskly taking-off from a stop at an intersection and was next just beginning to then lightly accelerate from a left-turn in the intersection (and instant lack of power then of-course occurred !).
__ During my first test-ride of those then "questionable" head-threads, I had rapped my left-leg with a few layers of material just in case the spark-plug was SHOT-out during the initial full-throttle testing, but by the intended out of town trip, I had come to trust that no such occurrence would happen,, and as it turned-out, the leg-rapping was an unneeded precation, cuz when the spark-plug had become ejected, it was only with a fairly light 'pop' with the spark-plug then still remaining attached & dangling from the ign.coil-wire cap !
There was then no longer any head-threads left to screw the spark-plug back into, (so I had to push the Duke back to a near-by friend's home).
__ After I got the Duke back to my shop and had purchased a 14mm.threaded-insert-kit, I next removed the cyl.head and installed the threaded-insert.
While I had the cyl.head off, I chose to look-over the piston & rings, and then found that one of the original p.rings was cracked,, so I next ordered & installed a new ring-set (finally done by early-summer,1975) and changed the oil (for the second-time, as I had already done once before when I first got the 200-motor [nearly 3-years & about 200-miles previous] ).
I next put about another 200-miles on the motor, then changed the oil AGAIN, ran the motor a relatively short while and (later) removed it from the bike and filled the combustion-chamber (through the plug-hole) with more fresh motor-oil, then next (with s.plug reinserted), put the complete motor in storage (back in mid-Aug.1975), where it's been kept undisturbed ever-since !
__ My 200-motor is the older 175-based A-version (which is not the same/newer B-version which the 250-motor was based upon). _ On top of that, it's the SPORT-model with the wilder cam & high-compression piston ! _ It also has a 25mm SSI attached.
____ I'm not totally-familiar with ALL the various 200cc Duke-models ever produced, and have never been fully aware of the relative production ratios between them all,, but of all the relatively few 200-models which I've ever seen, I've only ever noticed just two with the same 200-model motor (as mine), one of which is the one I still have. _ So amongst all the separate 200-models, I'm fairly sure that MINE is one of the rarest.
__ If there's anyone who can list all of the varied actual model-names of all of Ducati's std.production 200-DUKEs, I'm sure I would not be the only one here to appreciate it.


Hopeful-Cheers,
-Bob

UPDATE: - I've now added a couple pix of my 200-motor.

[Ducati Dude]

____ Yes, I'd sell the NOS 200-piston but, finding & getting it shipped-out may be a problem.
Where are you located ?


" Do you have any pic ? "

____ I could likely provide a pic of the piston but the 200-motor has gotten well berried way in the back of my garage,, which is the main reason why it's not been up for sale, (and also because I'd wish to know about & approve of what it's new home would become and I've never before found such an interested party [who wasn't merely an intended middle-man] ).
__ Either pic.subject would appear pretty-much as expected, anyhow.
____ The 200-motor (along with most of the rest of the 200-Duke) came into my possession in Sept.1972. _ It's only issue known of at the time was it's sparkplug-threads were damaged due to a previous-owner forcing the s.plug partially cross-threaded, which left most of the head's outermost s.plug-threads in fairly poor condition.
I cleaned-up the head's threads fairly well with a thread-chaser (coated with thick-grease), and the remaining threads looked questionable as to whether they'd hold-up or not after trying to torque-down a new sparkplug. _ It turned-out that I was able to install a new s.plug as normal anyhow then and it next held-up through a full-throttle top-RPM test-run right afterwords, (despite the quite-ugly/sparse remaining plug-threads).
__ Then about 200-miles later, (after I had concluded that the poor plug-threads were sufficiently trustworthy, I started-out on what was going to be my first out of town trip with the 200-Duke, but just before reaching the city-limits, the sparkplug surprisingly popped-out from the head, just after I had finished briskly taking-off from a stop at an intersection and was next just beginning to then lightly accelerate from a left-turn in the intersection (and instant lack of power then occurred !).
__ During my first test-ride of those then "questionable" head-threads, I had rapped my left-leg with a few layers of material just in case the sparkplug was SHOT-out during the initial full-throttle testing, but by the intended out of town trip, I had come to trust that no such occurrence would happen,, and as it turned-out, the leg-rapping was an unneeded precation, as when the sparkplug had become ejected, it was only with a slight 'pop' with the sparkplug then still remaining attached & dangling from the ign.coil-wire cap !
There was then no longer any head-threads left to screw the sparkplug back into, (so I had to push the Duke back to a near-by friend's home).
__ After I got the 200-Duke back to my shop and had purchased a 14mm.threaded-insert kit, I next removed the cyl.head and installed the threaded-insert. _ While I had the cyl.head off, I chose to look-over the piston & rings, and then found that one of the original p.rings was cracked,, so I next ordered & installed a new ring-set (finally done by early-summer,1975) and changed the oil (for the second-time, as I had already done once before when I first got the 200-motor [nearly 3-years & about 200-miles previous] ).
I next put about another 200-miles on the motor, then changed the oil AGAIN, ran the motor a short while and (later) removed it & filled the cylinder (through the plug-hole) with more fresh motor-oil, then (with s.plug reinserted), put it in storage (back in mid-Aug.1975) where it's been kept undisturbed ever-since !
__ My 200-motor is the older 175-based version (which is not the same/newer version that the 250 was based upon). _ On top of that, it's the sport-model with the wilder cam & high-compression piston ! _ It also has a 25mm SSI attached.
____ I'm not totally-familiar with ALL the various 200cc Duke-models ever produced, and have never been fully aware of the relative production ratios between them,, but of all the relatively few 200-models which I've ever seen, I've only ever noticed just two with the same 200-model motor, one of which I've still got. _ So amongst all the separate 200-models, I'm fairly sure that MINE is one of the rarest.
__ If there's anyone who can list all of the varied actual model-names of all of Ducati's std.production 200-DUKEs, I'm sure I would not be the only one here to appreciate it.


Hopeful-Cheers,
-Bob[/quote]
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Hi Bob

Will you pleaese put DIBS on ALL the 200 stuff you have including the Duke !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am trying to get you a picture of our Americano as soon as possible

Are you near Chicago or Detroit ?

Talk to you soon

Ducati Dude

[DewCatTea-Bob]

____ First-off, everyone ought to realize that it shouldn't be of much use to completely-copy the entire post which the responding member is replying to, when that previous post is still found directly right-behind in line, just above. _ Thus quoting an entire previous post only need be useful when that post is found back in line on a previous page (or at least two posts rearward on the same page).
(Just a nit-pick of a fairly common occurrence which has just happened to have occurred once again here-above now.)



" Will you pleaese put DIBS on ALL the 200 stuff you have including the Duke ! "

____ What's "DIBS" mean exactly ?


" I am trying to get you a picture of our Americano as soon as possible "

____ That would be nice.


" Are you near Chicago or Detroit ? "

____ Roughly, I'm currently about 120-miles North-East of Chicago and nearly 200-miles West of E.Detroit, (but this location is not where I keep most of my DUCATI-stuff).
__ BTW, I will not let anything I have go to eBay-seller types, only to long-established true-Dukers.)

____ Also, I no longer have any 200-DUKEs... only the one complete 200-motor ! ...
This is because when I got the motor, it came in a package-deal, where I took in trade two 200-DUKEs, (back when I knew relatively little about DUCATI's 200-models),, I believe one was a 200GT and the other 200-Duke was actually this "200 Sport" motor mounted within a 1962 250-Monza. _ These DUKEs were used by a guy named Edward Franks & his wife near Newark,Ohio during the '60s.
I don't recall the exact story about what had become of the rest of the "200 Sport", but the Monza which my 200-motor came out-of fittingly ended-up with a rebuilt 250-Monza motor, and was later resold to a neighbor of mine in 1975, thus leaving me left with just the 200-motor.


Dukaddy-DUKEs,
-Bob