OK guys sorry for the false alarm but seems she hasn't got such an eye for classics after all, she called the guy up and asked him about the bike and it's not even a Ducati but a Gilera, at least she got the country of origin right, a Gilera CX125, so it's gone from being a classic 4 stroke single or V twin to a little 2 stroke screamer.
The reason for my interest in the bike was she told me the guy had wanted to sell it for 30'000bht having bought it for 60'000bht a few years ago, both of which prices need at least another 0 put on the end if it was a Ducati.
The Gilera CX125 I've seen pics of is a futuristic looking sports bike with a large fully enclosed plastic body/fairing which looks dog ugly to me and would make a rather unpractical bike in Thailand given the huge problems of getting spares for such a bike when Honda NSR/LS 125/150's are so readily available.
Scot, I thought at 1st that Ducati never made a 400 but it seems they have actually made a few V twin 400's. Speaking of the 450 single I was working on a guys house here in London a few weeks ago and got speaking about bikes when he tells me he has an old Ducati in his garage, he shows it to me and it's a 1974 350 MK3 with 5000 miles/8000km's on the clock, its not been used or even started since 1977. It belongs to his elderly father and I told him I'll buy it off him, he says he'll speak to his father when he sees him so fingers crossed [
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