Phil911 wrote--->
I think that we're abused with the wrong stickers on the side fairings.
I feel this bike is a 92 works bike with wrong srickers, plus several wrong details as well ...
Phil911
Great input Phil-
As you know my first snap thought was that the bike was Fallappa's '92 works bike because I had two other '92 Works bikes with lower frame numbers- and that the auction text that it was a '90 Corse had to be a mistake.
Your first thoughts were that it was really a full on '91 Works bike that had received updates during restoration-- or perhaps later in '91.
You made good points that it was a '91 Works bike and when I dropped out the two '92 bikes with lower frame numbers it appeared that the bike could have started out as a '90/'91 and was updated to '92 works specifications (forks and rear brake) during the '92 season- provide we believe that the factory would use the same frame for two seasons. They often sold their Works bikes to other teams like Ferracci at the end of the season.
Terry's great pictures from the '91 and '92 season seemed to confirm that --- if we can believe that the same bike was in all of the pictures.
You now feel that the bike in the auction is a '92 works bike. So you must be thinking that this is a different bike then the one in the pictures from '91?
I still think that your belief that it started out as a '91 Works bike may be still correct--(at least in the running for best theory).
---- The frame number is in the '91 range (yes-I do have two '92 numbers that are lower though)
----- The rear aluminum sub frame is a '91 version. All of the '92 bikes (works or customer racing) I have seen use the SP street aluminum sub frame.
Of course both of these "details" are open to debate since I do have lower frame numbers that are supposedly '92 factory bikes, and the factory could well have continued to use the '91 style rear sub frame while on Customer bikes they installed SP sub frames. But I have seen what I believe is a Works '92 with the SP sub frames.
Now that you point out that the last sponsor was VOGART when the bike had carbon disks does indicate that the bike has the wrong decals if it was to represent the final "as raced" version of this " '90 Fallappa" bike.
Like Terry said--"the catalog description will be an interesting read". The auction house is saying that it is a '90 bike. If that is the case then it was either updated during restoration to look like the '92 bike that Falappa raced per Terry's pictures or else the same bike was used over two seasons and updated.
Or- the third possibility which would fit Phil's belief--is that it is indeed a '90 frame but it was raced only in '92 as a '92 Works bike (with a '91 rear sub frame) like the other two Works bikes I have in my data base.
I think my "...but... " is going to stand for a bit longer.
