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 To learn how DUC BITS,etc.! got started, read on.

                                                                                                                                                     DUC BITS,etc.! started life as a hobby business in the early '90's after the proprietor's first trip to the Isle of Man. He visited the Island in off season,and was escorted around the mountain course in the Porsche 911 Carera of a gentleman, now unfortunately deceased, named Robin Sherry, who

needed little inducement to the task.

 Robin had been a factory rider for AJS,and after that rode as a traveling marshall at the TT.  He knew how to show a man a good time--when he said he was judging how fast to go by the color of my knuckles on the door handle , I folded my hands in my lap. I couldn't see the speedometer very well, but we were over 110 MPH at least four times (there's no speed limit.) Back at his house,he said to his wife "Look at his face." I realized I was grinning uncontrolably.

         

On the way back from the Island,I got wind of the first classic race of the season at Cadwell Park. At  Cadwell, I met a man who was hawking various racing supplies, among them some very nicely finished fiberglass at what looked like competitive prices. I got his list, and checked around when I got back to the US to see if I might be able to make a modest business of importing them.

The result was VINTAGE RACING GLASS.

 

 

The propriator's interest in Ducati singles began in the mid-60's when roadracing seemed the  most desirable alternative to slowing down or dying soon. At that time he was in the University of Virginia graduate school in philosophy, where half the students rode motorcycles, and half of those roadraced!

My first racer was a Triumph Cub. Needless to say that didn't last long, and I soon graduated to my first Ducati. That was in the days or the AAMRR. I can honestly say that while other things in my life have been as much fun, nothing has been clearly more fun than I had roadracing.

I built a couple of racers, all narrow case 350's. I the process I accumulated parts and then whole bikes, till I had about a dozen bikes, depending on how you count them.

 

At one point I went to England and bought the first Desmo Sport 450 imported into England by Vic Camp. He was nice to me: put me up at his home, let me ride in his roadracing school, and  lent me the shop Bantam to ride around London on.

In the mid 70"s I filed everything away in a container and went to California for twenty years.

In the mid 90's, interest rekindled by the Island trip, I met Reno Leoni at Daytona. He invited me to visit him in Bologna. where he showed me how to find some of the obscure Ducati singles parts suppliers. Now every year I go to the big swap meet at Reggio Emelia looking for parts and visiting with suppliers, many of whom are now friends.

Somebody's gotta do it!