Is the Ducati 400SS a classic or Crusher?
Classic or crusher? Ducati 400SS Junior Created mainly for the Japanese market with its capacity-restricting licence laws, the 400SS of 1991-1996 was a mini version of the 750SS – which is where the problems started.
Is the Ducati 400SS a Pantah friendly bike?
The 400SS Junior is insurance friendly and makes all the right Pantah noises too. But don’t go near one unless you can live with the performance of the average middleweight custom. Junior’s confusion – so brilliant yet so so-so — stems from Ducati taking the low-risk sleeve-down option, to shift more bikes from the minimum of investment.
Is the Ducati 400SS the same size as the 750SS?
THIS SHOULD be Ducati’s ZXR400 — a lighter, sillier, more whizzy version of its big-cube stablemates and bike of the year. It isn’t and won’t be because it’s the same size and virtually the same weight as the 60bhp 750SS.
What’s the difference between a Desmo and a 400SS?
The 400SS chassis is, with one important difference, pure 750SS and already in stock, so to speak. Ditto this incarnation of the fabled Desmo V-twin. It displaces 398ccs sure enough but, crankshaft, bumped-up compression ratio and an extra gear apart, is ostensibly 750SS too.
The 400SS Junior is insurance friendly and makes all the right Pantah noises too. But don’t go near one unless you can live with the performance of the average middleweight custom. Junior’s confusion – so brilliant yet so so-so — stems from Ducati taking the low-risk sleeve-down option, to shift more bikes from the minimum of investment.
Classic or crusher? Ducati 400SS Junior Created mainly for the Japanese market with its capacity-restricting licence laws, the 400SS of 1991-1996 was a mini version of the 750SS – which is where the problems started.
THIS SHOULD be Ducati’s ZXR400 — a lighter, sillier, more whizzy version of its big-cube stablemates and bike of the year. It isn’t and won’t be because it’s the same size and virtually the same weight as the 60bhp 750SS.
The 400SS chassis is, with one important difference, pure 750SS and already in stock, so to speak. Ditto this incarnation of the fabled Desmo V-twin. It displaces 398ccs sure enough but, crankshaft, bumped-up compression ratio and an extra gear apart, is ostensibly 750SS too.