Cagiva Elefant 850 1987

Is fully faired the Cagiva Ducati 850 CC. they will try to counter the Japanese team and the Teutonic Knights at the Paris Dakar 1987.

The bikes of team Lucky Explorer boast twin engine air cooled, desmodromic, bore and stroke of 92 x 64 mm, power of 80 CV to 8.500 g/m, Weber carburetor, electronic ignition, dry clutch and primary drive helical gear.

The frame is superior in trellis tubes, of metalsI square section and the lower cradle in light alloy square tubes; the fork is Marzocchi 290 mm travel, the mono is a progressive Ieveraggio mounted Ohlins for a wheel travel of 290 mm.
The tanks, feeding the carburetor by means of two electric pumps, have the ability to 33 at the front and 32 liters to the latter; the gross weight is 230 pounds and the maximum speed of 185 kilometers per hour on the trail.

The pilots are deployed Hubert Auriol – Racing, Franco Gualdi, Alessandro De Petri and Gilles Picard.
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