New to the forum from El Cajon, CA

[Rickytic]

Good afternoon,
My name is Rick (Rickytic), just joined this forum to get all the help and information about vintage Ducati motorcycles you are willing to share, and to provide any skills, knowledge, and abilities I might have. I am an avid motorcycle enthusiast, currently my daily rider is a 2010 Harley. I am a RiderCoach for the California Motorcycle Safety Program as well as a Coach for the Harley-Davidson Riding Academy program. In March of this year, I completed a frame up restoration of a Honda 305 Scrambler, not able to attach a picture yet.

While camping this summer, I found a 1966 Ducati 250 Scrambler and just couldn't pass up the opportunity to take her home and start bringing her back to life. At this point, I have no knowledge of what is right or wrong on the bike, for example, it's got a battery box but I have not seen a picture yet that has this box. It looks like it came stock but just don't know yet. Have started my research but no experience with Ducati. Would love to hear from all that know the 250 scrambler.

Thanks in advance for all your future help with my quest in making this bike right.

Rickytic

[pkay]

Welcome - Ducati's can prove addictive, you have been warned!!

[Rickytic]

Hopefully I can attach a picture of the 305, here goes.

[Rickytic]

Thanks Pkay......Already excited to get started.....Need to take pictures of wiring and all that stuff before dismantling. Also need to find out vendors that will have rubber and other parts so I cana bring them in first.

[BevHevSteve]

welcome aboard, have a look at the Bevel Heaven shop for things you may need of course

https://Store.BevelHeaven.com

[Rickytic]

Thanks Steve, already have, I found it yesterday while browsing around. By the way, thanks for your help yesterday.

Tic

[BevHevSteve]

no problem..

[pkay]

Steve's shop is pretty good and has lots of stuff (I was amazed what you could find) and all reasonably priced. Lots of stuff is being remade now (I found that with my Mach 3 Kawaski as well) so it keeps prices down and most of the time it's better quality than the OEM stuff and allows you to keep the bike on the road.

Here in Australia we also have Gowanloch Ducati who have lots of old stuff as well. Between the two you can get good coverage for starters. There's is also Bevel Rubber in Australia as well. I'm sure Steve wont mind me mentioning the other two cause I have found that they don't tend to overlap on stock that much and where they do of course buying from your local supplier will be cheaper because of freight.

[Rickytic]

Thanks again PK. I now have them all saved for future reference. Should start buying in a month or so, need to get the frame coated and then I can start buying things to put back on. I dismantled the bike mostly yesterday, and found out that I will need a rear brake switch for sure.


Tic