Custom Casolari Ducatis

Custom Casolari Ducatis

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Giorgio Casolari is well-known to Ducati owners around the world as the owner of Gio.Ca.Moto, one of the world’s largest suppliers of spare parts for Ducati motorcycles. In recent years, Casolari has endeared himself to the fanatical owners of early V-Twin and single-cylinder Ducatis by re-manufacturing crucial components no longer available from the factory.

Casolari has lately turned his attention to producing two customized road bikes based on two kinds of Ducati V-Twins. Casolari has made a revised upper fairing for the new Ducati Paso which incorporates a transparent screen with a more rounded profile, instead of Tamburini’s distinctive but not universally popular “blind” fiberglass wind deflector. Casolari also sells a set of specially made Conti exhausts for the Paso, which offer improved breathing at the expense of a much louder and fuller exhaust note. Casolari, the sole distributor for these PasoContis, claims they offer an additional 5 blip for the 750 Paso engine.

Gio.Ca.Moto also appeals to the more traditional Ducati owner with its other special offering, a faithfully executed replica of the famous bevel-drive 750SS desmo factory racer on which Paul Smart and Bruno Spaggiari scored a historic 1-2 victory in the bike’s raee debut in the 1972 Imola 200-miler. Starting with a used round-case 750 motor. Casolari completely reconditions the engine, fitting it with desmo heads incorporating Imola cams and other competition parts from his extensive stock of remanufactured components. The stock chassis is checked over and sprayed the original, hard-to-copy metallic green, then fitted with a newly made, leading-axle Marzocchi fork, Akront wire wheels and Lockheed brakes. Fiberglass comes from Casolari’s parts book, and is an exact replica of the fully faired, large-seat factory racebikes. Only the exhaust system is slightly different from the ’72 factory machine’s; instead of the original one-up, onedown megaphones, the Gio.Ca.Moto Replica has a pair of high-rise megaphones that can be replaced with Conti silencers at the customer’s request. For more information, contact Giorgio Casolari, Gio.Ca.Moto, Via Bruschetti 6. 40132 Bologna, Italy.