desmax888 wroteCiao Phil, Ciao Mark ;
I have been knowing this motorbike for the year 2006
I don't have the money to purchase
all of my savings are the components that I have in my garage
cursed money :-(
my friend wants to have some offers and to decide the final price of the motorbike
which is it the comment that you give on the motorbike?
my friend in the year 1994 have purchased this motorbike as racing 93
CIAO
Massimo
Massimo-
So sad that you cannot find a way to buy this bike-- I know you have wanted a Corse for many many years. This is a beautiful bike with WSB race history- set up by NCR in 1993, purchased by your friend in 1994 with only a color change to red . That is rare history. From the pictures it looks almost new. Even my one bike which has a single race season on it looks a bit more tattered then this bike.
It does have a few parts on it that I have not seen before on a factory delivered '93 Customer Racing- but that does not mean that they are incorrect for the bike. They could be factory parts which Mr. CARACCHI, who was an expert on preparing these bikes for racing, specified or that he installed because he felt they improved the bike. If he went through the motor then I would assume that the motor produces more HP then a stock Customer Racing- much closer to what the factory was using.
Is the motor fresh? If it is then there is nothing that has to be done to this bike for show or track. If history and condition is as you say, then it is one of a small number of unmolested Customer Racing bikes. The only bikes better in my mind are "as raced" Works Corse's ridden by a well known factory rider.
I love these bikes so like Phil I am very biased when putting a value on them. They are hard to price because there has always been a slim market for 888 Corse's. One will sell high-- and the next one will sell low. The trend seems to be up along with all other collectible machines-but still slow to sell.
And originality often does not bring higher prices. I have seen a number of bikes with mixed year parts go into collections with no push back. Also, many collectors want the bikes "restored" (or over restored) because they want all of their bikes to be bright and shiny. So while I value "as raced" condition for my bikes many collectors look at a bike in that condition as one that needs restoration and price it accordingly.
The bottom line is that I agree with Phil- it is an unmolested/unrestored Customer Racing which has documented race history and a single owner who bought it directly from NCR after the 1993 race season and then took good care of it.-- for me--no less then 35K Euro- perhaps much more to a collector who has figured out that these are the bikes that put Ducati back in the winner's circle on the world stage and that a bike like this can only be "original" once.
