Ducati Paso
The Ducati Paso is a motorcycle model from the Italian manufacturer Ducati and was built from 1986 to 1992.
The fully enclosed motorcycle was in 1985 with the slogan " Il nostro passato ha un grande futuro " ( Our past has a great future) presented at the EICMA.
The name of the motorcycle had devoted his fatally injured friend and racer Renzo Pasolini, nicknamed " Paso " was Tamburini. Pasolini came on May 20, 1973 in Monza in a racing accident.
The Paso has a full fairing that extends almost continuously over the pulled down low side panels to the rear and the vehicle technology almost completely obscured. Especially the unusual Fairing was without transparent acrylic glass. Plastic bomber, however, they called the diehard Ducati.
The frame was constructed of chrome -molybdenum steel square tubes and it was the first production motorcycle from Ducati, the suspension of the rear wheel via a central spring strut was designed progressively over an aluminum swingarm. The bike has 16 inch wheels with the 13 and 16 inch radial tires and a Armaturenbox with orange pointers and motor ventilation slots as they were at the same time popular on the Ferrari Testarossa.
The engine of the Paso came from the Ducati 750 F1, but had a new rear cylinder head with getauschtem inlet and outlet so that the intake ports of both cylinder heads were facing each other. This Ducati new arrangement that allowed a large central air box to reduce the intake noise was henceforth used in all newly developed Ducati. Problematic were from the beginning to the electronics and the mechanical Weber carburettors.
The first version of the Paso, Paso had the 750, 72.5 hp ( 64 hp), 748 cc, at 7800 min -1, and it reached 210 km / h
The 906 Paso 1989 was water-cooled. With 904 cc and 88 hp (79 hp) at 8000 min-1, it reached a top speed of 220 km / h The lower fairing has now been painted white.
It was not until 1991 907i.e. ( Iniezione Elettronica ) followed, a complete electronic Weber Marelli IAW got - the Paso 043 injection. The smaller 16 " wheels were against 17 " wheels replaced. The performance and top speed was now 90 hp (79 hp) and 230 km / h (220 km / h). The name " Paso " was accounted for in the 907i.e and also the two -tone paint.
The values in the parentheses are the entries in the German vehicle certificates, which may be slightly different from state to state to be issued. A total of about 7000 Paso 's were produced during the manufacturing period 1986-1992.