FEATURE
DUCATI MUSEUM TOUR
P84
With its streamlined aluminum
body, Ducati's 98cc Siluro set 46
world speed records in a single
whirlwind of racing around an oval
track in Monza in 1956. Taglioni's
little engine had minimal tweaks,
according to Ducati, before raising
the bar in the record books one
by one. First: fastest kilometer for
a 100cc bike. Eventually: fastest
1000km for a 100cc bike. But it
was also a giant killer, breaking
records in classes up to 250cc.
Admittedly, this was a frenzied era
of re-setting records that hadn't
really been contested since before
World War II, but this was still a
remarkable achievement for both
performance and reliability.
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