Finger Trouble.....

I know we’re all perfect here at CMM and we never cock up, but it’s time to own up. Let’s wind the clock back a decade and a bit and I’m searching for something old, small and Italian to ride around the Dolomites.

In a chance social call to my mate Bill Hawker (general good egg and bike nut) Bill mentioned to me that there was a strange little Ducati on eBay: “It’s a 100 bevel, never seen one!” says Bill.

I eventually found the incorrectly listed scoot and bought it a couple of weeks later off a Minardi F1 mechanic. Turned out he’d found it lying in a garage in Napoli and brought it back to Blighty with a container load of battered titanium and carbon fibre.

I’d never seen a 100cc bevel before and I wasn’t sure that I could do it justice, but over the coming months I managed to tease it back into shape. Since then I’ve just enjoyed having it around, but I’d never run it: can you smell that Elephant? Now, after spending 12 months