My name is Mark Brush, I'm a Master Chief Petty Officer in the Navy, been in for 26
years.
This is my 1974 Ducati Sport.
It belonged to my father in law, Sonny Angel, who had a shop in National City, California
for 61 years.
He bought it somewhere back in the late 80's I think, somewhere mid-80's.
It had been in an accident, it had gone down.
The bars were bent and all the bodywork was missing, it was a mess and it had caught fire.
So the frame was pretty rusted.
I tried restoring it myself and got pretty far into it, figured out that was a little
bit beyond my capabilities.
So I sent it off to New York to a guy named Dave Brown, DB Cycles and had him restore
it.
When we started going through the bikes he had kept, this one I didn't even know what
it was.
As I was learning the bikes individually as far as Nortons, Vincents, and Ducatis and
everything that was there.
I wasn't exactly sure what it was, because it didn't have a shred of bodywork on it.
Went through the frame number and the tag that was on it, and found out it was a Sport,
and then as I was going through some of the parts that he had kept, he had an entire brand
new set of bodywork for it.
And a couple of tubs full of parts, so foot pegs, and some other odds and ends, that he
had Portland Ducati Suzuki he had bought out all of their new old stock.
He had all the bits and pieces to restore it, so that made it rather convenient.
So the tank, the seat, the fenders, everything that's there was New Old Stock that I sent
out to Dave along with the bike.
It helped with the restoration, he didn't have to source too many body parts.
We went completely through the motor, the motor was in pretty bad shape.
At least on the exterior, I don't know how it was on the interior.
73 was the first year they came out with the twin motor, so it's a twin motor 750.
They called 73-74 a round case, just the side of the motor the engine case is round versus
square.
Towards like 76 - 77 they changed from the round to a square engine shape.
For quite a few Ducati purists at least from what I hear, the round case was much more
attractive before they went to the square.
It's considered a bevel drive, because of the way it drives the cam.
The shaft that runs up has got a little cover on top that has bevel gears that mesh for
the cams.
It's kinda interesting, I spent the last couple of years up until 2012 I had been on modern
sport bikes.
Yamaha R1, Honda CBR, ridden lots of different bikes.
Got my leg over a Norton here about 3 years ago for the first time, and loved it.
Just rode this one here a couple of weeks ago for the first time, put about 200 miles
on it.
Just to kinda break the motor in, tidy up any leaks that it might have before it goes
off to a new owner.
Compared to a modern sport bike it's a much more gritty ride, much more mechanical.
It's very very different.
So one of the first things that's very unusual, this goes for Nortons as well, is it is a
right side shift left side brake.
So it's exactly the opposite of any modern motorcycle.
So it's you've got to kinda wrap your head around that one first, because you want to
shift with your left foot and then remember it's on the right.
Another neat thing is that it's already set up GP shift.
Suspension, not much in the suspension department.
So you get in a tuck and go through a corner on it and it bucks around and kinda moves
around on the road.
That 750 motor for Ducati has a lot of power, at least for that day and age.
It's fun to ride.
It chugs through corners, has a lot of torque so you get kinda down in the power band and
lugging it a little bit, just give it some throttle.
Clears right up and gets going.
You know and for me, really, as far as taking care of Sonny's stuff over the last 5 years.
Kind of a crash course in learning classic motorcycles.
It helped being a motorcycle enthusiast first and having been into motorcycles for 30+ years
but never really had an appreciation for classic bikes.
I did, I mean as far as never owned one.
Just never thought about owning one.
Honestly everything was always being a modern sport bike guy you're always looking for the
more modern technology faster bikes, being on R1s I've had 4 different R1s now, built
a couple project bikes and some other stuff.
But getting on a classic motorcycle and getting to experience that over the last 3 years I've
been learning more and more about the difference between a single Ducati and a twin.
The bevel drive and different Smith gauges and Veglia.
Nortons, the different models of Nortons.
Sonny had a, he raced Vincents.
He's got a 1947 Series A Rapide.
Raced Norton Manx motorcycles for years, all through the 50's and 60's.
So it's kind of a crash course in learning the different models and such.
It's for sale.
I'm going to list it on Bevel Heaven, which is a Ducati Bevel website that specializes
in the old Ducati bevel bikes.
Having it restored instead of selling it for $7000-8000, selling it for $45,000 all of
that money is going to go to, Sonny is now in a retirement home and all of that money
goes to help pay for his retirement home bill.
He's 92 now, 92.
Still alive, still kicking.
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