Ducati ‘Mototrans’ 250 24 Horas | Barcelona 24 Hour Winner

Ducati Mototrans 250 24 Horas

With Phil Aynsley

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The Spanish Mototrans firm was shaped in 1958 with the merging of the Maquitrans and Cliper issues who imported the Ducati Cucciolo and 98 cc bikes respectively.

Mototrans was licensed to fabricate Ducati bikes and started with the 125 Sport in 1959.

The corporate went on to change into an vital a part of Ducati’s progress through the Sixties with many race wins in addition to constructing a variety of fashions that have been bought by Ducati, as Ducatis.

The truth is Mototrans entered bikes received the Barcelona 24 Hour race ten occasions – probably the most by any producer!

It was because of one in all these wins, by a 283 cc single prototype in 1964, that the corporate determined to capitalise on the beneficial publicity by introducing their high of the road sports activities machine, the 250 24 Horas (Hours) on the Barcelona Present the next yr.

The bike differed from modern Ducati singles in a number of methods, probably the most elementary being a change to a 69 x 66 mm bore and stroke from Ducati’s conventional 74 x 57.8 mm.

The motor was additionally based mostly on the sooner ‘slender case’ design reasonably than the ‘broad case’ then being utilized by Ducati.

Different options have been a ten:1 compression ratio, larger elevate camshaft and a Spanish made Amal 27 mm carburettor. In a primary for the corporate a five-speed gearbox was used.

Three sequence have been produced earlier than manufacture completed round 1973. This can be a late manufacturing Sequence 3 bike.

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