This 1970 Ducati 450 Desmo ‘Corsa’ is one of the phenomenal vintage motorcycles being offered up from the private collection of former Ducati factory test-rider and Ducati dealership owner, Carlo Saltarelli.
The bike will be accepting bids at the Monaco RM Auction, taking place between the 11th and 12th of May 2012 in the tiny European principality, many of the greats from the world of motorcycles and motorcycle racing are expected to be in attendance.
This is shaping up to be one of the largest Ducati auctions in history, with over 100 motorcycles spanning 30+ years being offered for sale. As the prices these bikes will fetch are expected to be somewhere in the jillion-bajillion-dollar price range our only hope may be an Oceans 11/Italian Job style heist. Who’s with me?
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Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
This cheat sheet is designed to tell you everything you need to know to get familiar with the new motorcycles, without burying you in thousands of words of twaddle that you don’t have time for. The new Indian FTR 1200 and FTR 1200 S are almost certainly the most hotly anticipated motorcycles of 2018, certainly…
The Matchless G45 was developed in 1951 as a grand prix racer using an AJS 7R rolling chassis fitted with a modified Matchless G9 roadster engine with a new aluminium-alloy cylinder barrel and high-flow head with distinctively finned exhaust rocker boxes to aid in cooling. Over the course of its 1951 to 1957 production run…
The Ferves Ranger is a fascinating little Italian microcar associated with the Ferrari name that has great light-off-road ability for farm or vineyard use, and good manners on-road at lower urban speeds. Owners could physically push, pull, or slide the car out of most situations where it would otherwise be bogged, so the Ranger rarely…
This custom Triumph Daytona 675 is the work of Droog Moto – a highly-regarded custom motorcycle garage based out of Washington State that’s run by an enterprising young couple named Max and Erica Droog, known for their tough-as-nails, post-apocalyptic scrambler builds.
The Suzuki XR69 was an underdog of sorts, it was a joint project between the Japanese motorcycle maker and motorcycle tuning icon Pops Yoshimura. Honda was the king of the hill when it came to Japanese four-strokes, but what Suzuki and Pops managed to do in a few short years was turn this dominance on…
This article was written by Rahul Sinroja, the owner and founder of Sinroja Motorcycles. When possible we like to bring you an article written by the person who built it, to cut out the middle man and give you direct insight into their methods and thought process. The idea was to keep the build simple…
