Hondo Grattan – The first Deus special built on a Ducati Scrambler
Filippo Bassoli – MD of Deus Italy: “We’d been waiting for the Ducati
Scrambler for some time: in 2010 we did some drift riding with bikes on
the Harold Park horse-race track in Sydney together with our friends
from Ducati and back then we promised that a Deus creation would be made
by developing one of their models. And today we’ve maintained that
promise thanks to the Ducati Scrambler: we finally found a bike made
with evident vintage inspiration but with the DNA and technical features
of a real motorcycle. These characteristics allowed Emanuele and Peter
to follow their instincts, particularly after getting their hands on the
bike and dismantling it to reveal a fantastic frame. Our project
started from there, the result of free and innovative ideas where the
main focus is on the aluminium bodywork, with a single-piece tail,
number-plate support and a headlight inspired by speedway bikes. An
asymmetric mudguard completes the project, together with lots of little
details such as the positioning of the conic filter within the frame,
the disc brake and, of course, the dedicated exhaust. The name however
comes from Carby, creative director of Deus Australia, who was in Milan
at the time; he saw the project when it was almost complete and fell in
love with it, naming it Hondo Grattan, after the horse that won
everything on the Harold Park race-track. Who knows, in the
not-too-distant future, perhaps our bike will end up on that track too.”
Via Deus!
Wow, mutige Farbkombination!
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