View from the Sidecar
News, Events and Sidebars from Motorcycle Classics
January/February 2005
By Motorcycle Classics staff
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BellaCorse's TT SR
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BellaCorseTT SR
The success of Triumph’s retro-themed T100 and Thruxton hasn’t escaped the notice of the aftermarket. With its BellaCorse Signature line of parts and accessories for 2001 to current Triumph T100s, Sel-Motion Motorsports has been quietly carving out a niche for itself supplying retro-themed accessories for the T100.
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Launched by Michael Selman in 2002, the company supplies a host of appearance options for the T100, from custom exhaust systems to retro-styled gas tanks and fairings. Selman sells his company’s wares individually or, if the buyer prefers, prepares complete bikes.
The company’s latest offering is the BellaCorse TT SR (Special Replica). Designed to invoke the style of the 1966 Triumph TT Special, the bike is kitted out with special paint, polished aluminum fenders with black stays, baffled TT head pipes and a reproduction ’66 tail light and grab rail.
Other than the custom paint, none of the modifications are permanent, and if you want to build one yourself, all the parts making up the TT SR are available separately. That said, Selman is pushing the bike as a turn-key product, and with an average cost of $2,000-$2,500 for the conversion (after you’ve supplied your own T100, of course) , Sel-Motion’s TT SR seems a relatively inexpensive way to meld modern mechanicals with classic lines.
Look for Sel-Motion’s BellaCorse TT SR at the Motorcycle Classics booth at shows around the country, as we continue hitting the road in 2006.
Details
What: BellaCorse TT SR
Who: Sel-Motion Motorsports, P.O. Box 760403, Lathrup Village, MI 48076;
www.bellacorse.com; (248) 569-2850.
Ducati SportClassic
Nostalgia is big business in the modern-day motorcycle world, as plenty of people Milwaukee way will confirm. Ducati’s SportClassics offer a very different take on the theme of a new V-twin with an old-fashioned look.
The base model is the naked Sport 1000, a dead ringer for the 750 Sport that Ducati introduced in 1973, when it was the Bologna brand’s first-ever sport bike. The Paul Smart LE 1000 is inspired by one of Ducati’s most famous racebikes, the silver factory desmo on which British ace Paul Smart won the 1972 Imola 200-miler — a massive victory that kicked off Ducati’s track success, and led directly to the legendary 750 and 900SS roadsters.
The Sport and Paul Smart are closely related, both powered by the 992cc air-cooled desmo V-twin from the Multistrada, Supersport and Monster. The dual-spark desmo unit makes 92bhp with plenty of midrange. The Sport is a regular model, available in red or black as well as yellow; the Smart is a limited-edition — hence the LE initials — of which most have already been sold.
These bikes are beautifully finished, and they’re quick, fine handling and characterful enough to provide plenty of fun, both in a straight line and in corners. The flexible and sweet-running V-twin engine makes 100mph-plus speeds effortless, and the Smart bike’s half-fairing does a good job of keeping off the breeze.
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