Talk:Ducati Supersport

Relationship to Pantah
It wasn't clear to me from the article body whether Pantah is a predecessor or just a related model. I included it in the infobox as predecessor. Brianhe 16:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC)


 * It is a perfectly valid predecessor, tho a Ducati zealot could also make a case for the earlier bevel drive Super Sport models (diff spelling- two words not one) on the basis of name similarity.Seasalt 08:14, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

This article needs revising
First off, it's written almost solely from a US POV. No mention of the 350/400ss models and the 600ss model.

The Pantah is an unrelated model. The only relation might be the Cagiva Alazzurra 650SS which was a Pantah restyled by Cagiva -- with a half fairing and a full fairing option.

izaakb   ~talk  ~contribs  10:53, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

I would have thought the predecessor of the original SuperSport would be the 750GT. I think the 750 Sport came onto the market about the same time as the SuperSport, so could not really be termed a predecessor. Seasalt (talk) 08:22, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Merging Ducati 400SS and Ducati 800SS into this article
Are the Ducati 400SS and Ducati 800SS really different enough from the other SuperSports to need their own articles? At this stage at least, could they not be covered by sections in this article? Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 02:29, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * the smaller capacity SS models were based on the late 1980s 750 SS, and very similar to that bike, but these early belt drive engines were quite different to the earlier bevel drive engines and the later models - which drop the supersport name in about 2007. It might be ok to merge them all, assuming information is not lost, or possibly to split the bevel and belt versions Garyvines (talk) 03:05, 14 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge We don't really split up articles because of this or that technical change. The central idea is that the resulting article will serve to enlighten the reader. Event totally different bikes can go in one article if it makes sense to learn about them together. If the bikes share a similar market niche, and the same model name, they probably belong together. That said, once we merge all of these, it might be worth thinking about spawning a separate article to go deeper into the earlier generation supersport. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 20:03, 14 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge for all the above reasons. --Biker Biker (talk) 21:35, 14 November 2012 (UTC)