TEST
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BORILE 450 SCRAMBLER
The Borile
is powered
by a 452cc
desmodue
engine built by
Moto Villa with
both Ducati's
approval and
parts.
But first things first, and that's
the B450 Scrambler single,
which is due to enter production
next year to be distributed via a
range of Borile dealers established by Alberto Bassi - not only
in Italy but elsewhere in the world
as well.
The chance to spend a morning carving corners - and even
taking it through the white dirt
roads of the vine-covered Euganean hills - showed that the
Scrambler is a practical and visually pleasing retro-styled product.
Its B450 single motor retains
the complete Ducati 1100DS
rear cylinder assembly with its
two-valve cylinder head, includ-
ing the stock 36mm inlet/32mm
exhaust valves, desmo camshaft
and rockers. But those have
been installed in a specially-designed crankcase with a geardriven counter-balancer and
side-loading extractable unitconstruction five-speed gearbox,
with an electric start (there's no
kick-starter) and cable-operated
oil-bath clutch – though Borile
says this will be replaced with hydraulic operation once in production, for aesthetic reasons.
The engine presently produces 43 horsepower at 6300rpm at
the rear wheel, Borlie says, with
the rev-limiter currently set at
8200 rpm (9000 rpm on the pro-
duction version), and maximum
torque of 47Nm delivered at 6250
rpm. The engine management
ECU is provided by EFI in Bologna, but is still in the process of
being definitively mapped. It will
use a Magneti Marelli injector.
The Scrambler's cylinder retains its slight 18-degree rearwards slant from its Ducati V-twin
application. The quirky-looking
design feature is accentuated by
the cam-drive cover that gives
it visual character, shifts weight
rearwards, aids cooling via the
directional finning, and also
helps with intake packaging. It
also keeps its back-to-front layout
that makes for an unusual format
