Swiss Condor Motorcycle - a photo on Flickriver

            The Condor A-350 is actually a Ducati-engined classic, using a detuned 1970s 350cc engine in a Swiss-made frame with Italian suspension and brakes. It was considered a blank canvas in the 1990s for enthusiasts of simple, reliable old motorcycles.
A marriage of a Ducati single-cylinder engine to a Swiss-built frame, the Condor served the Swiss Army from 1973.
Swiss company Condor started motorcycle production around 1900, initially for the country’s postal service. Over the decades it built several different models, mostly with engines from other manufacturers. It manufactured motorcycles for the Swiss army from before World War I until its closure in 1978. Before the A-350, its military mainstay was powered bu a low-compression, side-valve boxer twin.
The Condor’s detuned Ducati 350 valve-spring (not desmo) engine was supplied from either Italy or Ducati’s Spanish partner, Mototrans. It was fitted to Condor’s own twin-loop frame which used rubber engine mounts.
With typical Swiss efficiency, the Ducati engine’s durability was increased by fitting a cartridge oil filter and a bolt-on mounting flange for the exhaust header rather than Ducati’s troublesome standard screw-in arrangement.
The combination of a milder cam, a 27mm carburettor (2mm smaller than standard), lower compression and restrictive muffler reduced power output to 17bhp from the standard Ducati MkIII engine’s 30bhp.
A Condor can nevertheless cruise at 100km/h but will never reach the Mk III’s 160km/h. Around 3000 units were built between 1973 and 1978 and were still in use until 2001.
   

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Taken on: September 6, 2017

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