Nice Cagiva Ducati Alazzura custom
Here is a brief description courtesy from “Classic Motorcycles”:
"“Badge engineering” is a familiar term in the automobile industry,
loosely defined as the rebadging of one make and model to create
another. Think of a Chrysler sedan from the Eighties, and it will
undoubtedly have one or two nearly identical siblings. And while this is
the kind of marketing one might expect from decades past in Detroit, it
wasn’t common in Bologna, even during their toughest times.
In 1985, Ducati had just been purchased by Cagiva. Cagiva, then the
largest Italian motorcycle manufacturer, was primarily making mopeds and
small street bikes at the time, and many of them were two-strokes. To
expand into the middle- and heavyweight street bike market, it needed
four-stroke engines. As the March 1985 issue of Rider magazine said,
“There were several reasons why Ducati’s engine manufacturing facility
was the logical candidate to supply Cagiva with motors: The physical
plant was already there, the product was good, and it was the only
segment of Ducati’s operation that had been profitable.”
Cagiva’s owners, the Castiglioni brothers, had a new direction in
mind for the company, and it included widening the scope of the
company’s products beyond that of just sport bikes for enthusiasts. Two
years before Cagiva purchased Ducati, Ducati had agreed to supply
engines to Cagiva for two models, the Elefant dual-sport bike and the
Alazzurra, a bike very similar to the earlier Ducati Pantah. It was 1985
before the two bikes hit the production line.
The 650cc Alazzurra was essentially the latest version of the Ducati Pantah when it debuted in 1985"
The nice pictures are from
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