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The 2006 Pro
Italia Motorcycle Show
Pro Italia is a Ducati and MV Augusta
dealership in Glendale, California. They had a motorcycle show on 12
August 2006 in Glendale. Here are a few photos from it.
All photos on this page were created using
the Nikon D70 with the Nikon 28mm 2.8 lens.
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Lots of Italian motorcycles.
Sponsored by Pro-Italia, the event
attracted quite a few Italian motorcycles, but there were also many other
Japanese, British, German, and American motorcycles. |
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Lots-a-Monsters...
The Monster is credited with starting the
recent "naked" bike craze, featuring bikes with a more normal
seating position and either no fairing or a very small "flyscreen"
fairing.
The red one in the foreground borrows a
classic Ducati paint scheme used in the 1960s on Ducati single-cylinder
motorcycles (see the next photo). |
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A Ducati single from the 1960s. |
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A gorgeous 900cc early Ducati
twin. |
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Check out the valve
covers...they allow you to see what's going on inside. |
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A modern Ducati twin. |
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A Ducati see-through clutch
cover. Ducati uses a dry clutch, which makes a lot of noise at idle. |
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A beautiful custom-painted Moto
Guzzi. Last year this bike won best in its class. |
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A custom Indian. This is
1939 Chief motor in a 1927 Scout frame. |
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A 1970s BMW
"Toaster." This bike is completely original. It only
had 8700 miles on the odometer. |
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Another German bike, this time a
custom-painted BMW R1150R Rockster. |
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In the late 1960s, BSA (a
British manufacturer) successfully campaigned a three cylinder 750.
The bike won a lot of races, but it was a sales flop, having been eclipsed
by the 750 Honda Four.
This rider has a sense of humor...it's a
bike styled like the BSA Rocket Three Racer, but with a 750cc
four-cylinder Honda engine. |
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This bike is artfully
done. The decal is just like the original BSA decal, except it says
"four" where the BSA used to be a "three."
And, check out the timing case cover...a
BSA logo on a Honda engine. Very nicely done. |
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Another Honda Four from the
1970s. This one is obviously a rider. |
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An incredible Monster chopper. |
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Engine detail on the above
Monster chopper. |
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A gorgeous Mike Hailwood
replica. |
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One of four Morbidelli V8
motorcycles in the United States. |
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Something about that name just
doesn't work...it sure wouldn't work for a restaurant... |
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Moridelli engine detail. |
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A nice rig...a 1950s Chevy
pickup truck (I think this is about a 1953 or so) with a classy Triumph
Daytona twin in the back. |
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The Triumph Daytona. I
used to have one of these. It was called the Baby Bonneville,
because it was a smaller version of the Triumph Bonneville (the Bonneville
used a twin-carb 650cc engine; the Daytona had a twin-carb 500cc engine). |
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The Chevy pickup truck's
interior. |
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A 750cc Norton Atlas. |
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Two guys checking out an MV
Augusta. |
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Moto Morini's 500 cc
V-twin. I've seen these in Europe, but this was the first one I've
seen in the US. |
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A 250cc Benelli
four-cylinder. This may be the smallest four-cylinder motorcycle
engine ever made. |
| The Pro Italia show was
nice. Not so big it was overwhelming, and interesting enough to make
for a fun afternoon. The bikes were impressive, the photo subjects
were great, and the southern California weather was wonderful. The
people were all friendly, too. The show was on a side street right
next to the Pro Italia shop in Glendale, and they had folks out there
asking us to kill our engines as soon as we turned onto that side
street. I thought that was a considerate gesture, as there are
houses and residences in the area, and the Pro Italia people didn't want
to inconvenience their neighbors. |
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