So, I moved from the registry section to here for posting some new and old images of TT racers in Scandinavia. I'll take one bike at the time an in chronological order.

First out the legendary NCR 750 (and to be honest note even a TT) that was bulit by a couple of enthusiasts in Stockholm to compete i European endurance racing. It was in fact very successful, and ahead of the factory Ducati at the Bol d'Or 1984, even if the works bike was faster on the straights. Walter Villa was curious and asked how they could be so fast. The "team manager" didn't think the answer really through and managed to slip out: "we simply have faster riders I guess..."

The bike was built from late 1983 through 1984 and, apart from endurance, raced in Swedish fourstroke racing with mixed success. It was sold after the 1986 season and after that ridden in the Nordic Battle of the Twins series for many years. The NCR frame was replaced by an aluminum Spondon beam frame, then the 750 Engine was replaced by a 900. The original bike was then sold and ridden only a couple of times before retired. Last year former Supermono ace Mikael Johansson purchased it, restored and painted it up. This year, after 13 seasons not racing, he took it to several podiums in the Nordic Classic racing series in the class 7CF2, which is racing motorcycles from 1980 to 1987, twostrokes up to 400 cc, four cylinder fourstrokes up to 600cc and two cylinder fourstrokes up to 750cc.

/Björn

So, with only a few months in between, here comes the second posting! It is related to the recent Las Vegas auction, and it is the TT1 that was sold there. The story described in the auction brochure and also refered to here at the forum is pretty much correct. I lived close to the at that time Ducati importer and actually saw this bike in the workshop, probably recently arrived from Italy. i did not understand what is was at the time! First time the bike was tested on Swedish ground, at an airfield, one of the oil hoses burst and Benny crashed, injuring his leg. He could not race anymore that year, instead a couple of his friends raced with it to keep it running. In 1988 we had the premier for Battle of the Twins racing and then Benny crashed and the bike continued into a wall, with a cracked frame and bent fork as a result. (Hence the not original fork on the bike after.) The bike was resting in the Aneröd garage for a couple of years, and local Ducati dealer Biscaya Motor decided to support and ordered a Harris rising rate frame kit in which theb TT1 engine was placed. More modern and with 17 inch wheels it was what Benny originally wanted in 1985 after having seen the F1 works racer. But sadly enough the bike never came to the track, and after another couple of years a 900 engine replaced the 750, and the complete, crashed TT1 was sold to Torbjörn Lindgren who rebuilt it. It was sold together with some other bikes to the museum in 2010.

Interesting shots. I like the NCR framed ones quite a bit. And thanks for explaining the steep steering head angle on #24.

Thanks for posting,
MikeV

Thanks for documenting this important history Björn

There is in fact also a second original TT1 in Scandinavia. This was bought by a couple of Finns (Juha Käki and Jorma Lantta) from the factory via the Finnish importer, but I am not exactly sure which year, i think in 1984. When we organised the first BoTT race in 1988 we did not know they or the bike existed, but they turned out right from the blue! They continued to race in the series the following years, and after a while one of the guys, Jorma, took it over by himself and Juha bought a Laguna Seca that he modified for racing. Then Jorma bought a 888 SP and the TT1 rested for a while before taken out again, then upgraded with the front end from the 888 and also 17 inch rear wheel.

Thanx for posting......earlier you asked about the bikes sold at Vegas auction.....no one here on the list or a friend of a lister bought any of that iron???

Clay

Next entry: The Norwegian TT2

In 1985 Bue David-Andersen from Oslo built a very competerive TT2. He was at the time official Ducati importer in Norway but the market is really small it was not possible to live from it. Family, and main, business was a fine-mechanical workshop, so all pre-requisites to manufacture special and light parts. I believe that the complete rolling chassi was bought as spare parst direclty from the factory. The engine was really well prepared and the bike as light as it could be as a private racer, around 125kg. It was really fast, ourand the GSXR750:s on the straights before the 1988 model came. The front fork was soon replaced by a M1R and the bigger calipers.

After a few years it was sold to Norwegian racer Öystein Borch who after an engine breakdown replaced the engine with a 750. This one also blew up after s few years, and the bike not touched since. Öystein focused on his sons career, he was a really promising 125 rider and did the Red Bull rookies one season.

It is the bike to the left on the picture above showing Benny Aneröd before the start of his last race.

/Björn

The black megaphone on the last picture is probably the one resting in my shed now. Bought it from Bue a couple of years ago.

There was a second ”real” TT in Sweden back in the days, this one built from ground though but with the right parts. The guy who started to build it was Roland Poll, who worked at the Swedish Ducati importer at the time. He bought a new 650 engine from the factory and the rest of the parts from NCR as I understand it. He did not finish it completely and sold it to Swedish racer Oscar Ekstrand, who had been racing everything from 50cc to 900SS production racing. Oscar never really got to race it properly, it came to the tracks only a handful of times. But the original fork and brakes were replaced with a M1R and four piston black Brembos as well as 17 inch Marvic wheels. I never saw the bike with that though. Oscar was struck with cancer and passed away, the bike was sold and used for track days as far as I know and then sold again. At present I am told it suffers from a broken engine and sits somewhere in the mid-north in Sweden, not used for some years.

Pictures are from 1987 I think.

/Björn

We move to the Harris department:
The racing class in the mid-80:s in Sweden for tuned fourstrokes non-production bikes was called SuperProduction. It was in this class the NCR and the TT1 of Benny Aneröd raced, and they competed against a Harris TT1 as well. It was owned and raced by Per-Olof Selerup, we became pretty good friends and I accompanied him to the tracks a couple of seasons back then. Per-Olof initially raced a bevel head but for the 1984 season bought a 600 Pantah and sent the engine to Steve Wynne at Sports Motorcycles. They fitted a 650cc crankshaft and 88mm pistons and all the rest to make a competitive 750. Per-Olof also got a Harris TT frame kit, and fitted the Campagnolos, the TZ fork and big piston Brembos from his 900. Per-Olof raced it for a couple of years but then family business took over and he sold it. It did not make it back to the racetracks and today we dont know the whereabouts of it, sadly enough.

/Björn