Paso ..

Pig ugly for a start! one in Livingstone with 851 wheels and brakes been trying to sell it for donkeys, have seen them go for very little money a good bit under 1K been several on fleabay for some time now I had been looking at them as a donor for a project but found the SS range to have better brakes and cycle parts and can be found as cheap. Suppose it is a bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it. :D
 
Thought Derek may have responded! ;) :D

As Sam says a marmite model. By the time it finished it's run it had a lot in common with the 851.

Personally think it is a very underated bike and right now I have taken to the looks again. Trouble was it was so different to previous offerings when it was launched.

Prices of good ones will start to rise I am sure and signs are already there. You could buy them at £6-700 a year or so ago but now at least double that and have seen the odd one for close to £3k. Red, blue, black and white are the usual colours.
 
dunkeys

bloody hell, that's different.
been trying to sell it for donkeys

what a few, or a herd perhaps .. ;)
 
Never had a Paso, but I think they've got the same wheels that I had on my '89 Sport Nuovo - and therein lies an issue with them. If it is the aforementioned 16" wheels (130 front and 160 rear) you can't get the radial tyres for them anymore. Originally Pirelli and Michelin made them but they're no longer available. Maybe something to consider? I'd imagine dropping one would be an expensive exercise though!
 
750 and 906 came with 16" and 907 with 17".

Lot of folk changed wheels to the 17". I thought someone was now selling 16" tyres again but that may be a figment of not enough alcohol on a Saturday night.
 
The Paso - the forgotten Ducati !. Like Stewart I didn't used to think much of them but recently they have begun to grow on me and I've being doing a bit of research onto them.
The Paso 750 was Massimo Tamburini's first design after the Cagiva takeover, introduced at the Milan show in 1985. Named after the Italian racer Renzo Pasolini who was killed at Monza in 1973. It was the world's first sports tourer but with rather unconventional styling for it's time. taking it's cues from the Ferrari Testarosso. It used the 750 Pantah engine but claimed power was only 72.5 hp at the crank and with the 16" wheels which provided quirky handling and the Weber twin choke carb it wasn't their best product.
In 1988 the 750 was superceded by the Paso 906. This time fitted with a 904cc water-cooled engine using the 851 crankcases, basically a water-cooled 900SS. Power was up to a claimed 88 hp at the crank but unfortunately still with the Weber carb and 16" wheels.
Only 2 years later the 907ie was introduced and the Paso name was dropped. The 907 used the same engine but with the later 851 strengthened crankcases, 17" wheels at last and best of all fuel injection, hence the ie designation (Iniezione Elettronica) using the P8 ECU from the 851.These also had 4 pot Brembo calipers and the last produced in 1992 had the Goldline versions.

Less than 9,000 Pasos were produced worldwide and only 2,300 907ie's mostly to Europe with a few hundred to the UK and the USA.

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Paso 906
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Friend of mine had the 750 and I thought it was the ugliest bike I had ever see, apart from the BMWs of the same era. I rode it up to Loch Lomond once and was not overly impressed - mind you I was riding a Yamaha 1000cc Genesis at the time.

He complained about riding it through towns as it felt unstable going round corners at slow speed. He dropped pulling away from traffic lights, turning right, at very low speed. I can vouch for that as I was riding behind him. The damage was horrendous and very costly. If anyone is considering one then I would suggest very large crash bungs!
 
Just for the sake of buying tyres I'd go for the 907. I think Avon do 16" tyres in the right sizes but they're marketed for cruisers so they might be a bit hard of compound.
I'm tarting up my 907 at the moment actually. All the paint has fallen off the engine so I'm following Pict's thread avidly.
 
ShedBob said:
All the paint has fallen off the engine so I'm following Pict's thread avidly.
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Don't do that! Having seen Colin's 'in the flesh' (metal?) - I would definitely recommend the 'Hycote' engine enamel and lacquer that I was going to use, and Colin did, not the Simoniz that I did eventually use. Nothing wrong with the Simoniz, just the Hycote has a nicer finish.
 
mbg said:
Friend of mine had the 750 and I thought it was the ugliest bike I had ever see, apart from the BMWs of the same era. I rode it up to Loch Lomond once and was not overly impressed - mind you I was riding a Yamaha 1000cc Genesis at the time.
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Is the BMW you were thinking of Mary... the K1:

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Quite possibly THE most ugly looking motorcycle ever to emerge from a European manufacturer.

While cladding everything in plastic seems to suit BMW's "the motorcycle as an appliance" thinking, I think hiding the engine on the Paso was a mistake, although it was all the rage in the 80s, everyone was at it:

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hindsight said:
I'll see your K1, and raise you a Morbidelli V8....


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That horrific beast doesn't take the prize as it was the prototype. They toned it down for the real thing...

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32 valves, nice and cheap at service time then... :eek:
 
miloVanMultistrada said:
That horrific beast doesn't take the prize as it was the prototype. They toned it down for the real thing...

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32 valves, nice and cheap at service time then... :eek:
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And the same crap headlight as the ST2 :eek:
 
miloVanMultistrada said:
Is the BMW you were thinking of Mary... the K1:

[qimg]http://www.motorcyclesupermarket.com/images/bikes/images/4889619.1517025086.jpg[/qimg]

Quite possibly THE most ugly looking motorcycle ever to emerge from a European manufacturer.


While cladding everything in plastic seems to suit BMW's "the motorcycle as an appliance" thinking, I think hiding the engine on the Paso was a mistake, although it was all the rage in the 80s, everyone was at it:

[qimg]http://www.hoc.org.uk/gallery/bikes/CBR1000FM_1991(2).jpg[/qimg]
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That's the one Miles.
 
Few years ago I was speaking to someone who knows Ducatis inside out and he swore his 907ie was more an 851 than most realised.
 
I'm always make room for a nice one in my garage.

I was looking for a 907 when the 851 dropped into my lap, and I'd like to think that at some point there may be one in my garage.
 
Scottch said:
I'm always make room for a nice one in my garage.

I was looking for a 907 when the 851 dropped into my lap, and I'd like to think that at some point there may be one in my garage.
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Dropped into your lap is correct! :rolleyes::D

Reckon you had the Dick Turpin mask on that day! ;) :)
 
Just to settle the question of what I wanted the van hire for. I've just bought this:

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It's one of the very last 907ie's registered in 1994 and it's immaculate. The plastic dots on the tanks will be coming off and I don't care much for the Cagiva Elephants but they've been lacquered over so the might be there for a while. I know some of you had guessed I was after a Paso, so now know you know ;)

And the first one to say plug ugly gets oil on their tyres and a handful of gravel in the air box :D
 
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