748 Is This A 748r?

What year?

The bike has the shower head injectors, which on the 748 series bikes only came on the R.

That said, AFAIK, the R's came with Ohlins front forks and steering dampers. That bike has Showa. Furthermore, the front sub-frame bracket looks decidedly backstreet quality.. I would question the bikes authenticity as an original "R".

I may be an R engined bike in my opinion.

If you want to know the originality of the frame/engine, I'd suggest e-mailing the information team at Ducati who will gladly help!

 

All of the above and a very nice low engine production number

 

Showa nitrided forks fitted as standard on up to early 2001, Ohlins steering damper was a DP option only but was fitted to the later 2002 models to help them sell. Air box has been modified to take aftermarket filters normally associated with carbon air tubes which only the DP product had inline filters. The overflow bottle is an abortion, the DP/cloned rearsets and heel guards are nice, the early carbon airbox looks right, the oil cooler looks right, shame it's only got the 45mm exhaust system, the 45/50mm half system would be more desirable. There should be a 5mm air gap between the belt guards and the cases which is a dead give away. Potentially a kosher early R but been quite a bit modified. Andy

 

looks like an ex race bike to me.

R's were also numbered, should have a plaque on the top yoke

 

where the cam belt cover bolts onto the engine there is a 5mm gap as the 748r uses wider belts.

 

I think he means there should be a 5mm gap between the belt guards and the engine cases for extra cooling...

 

or wider belts

 

I sell the wider belts

 

If you look at any 916 family bike, the black plastic (carbon if DP/aftermarket) belt covers fit snuggly butting up against the engine case. Because the 748R has 22mm wide belts, they had to space the belt covers off by about 5mm so you can actually see a gap between the two. I have my R engine in the dining room so should be able to post a picture later. Andy

 

I take far too long to 1 finger type on my phone Andy

 

As cookie says, looks like an ex race bike, no cooling fan.

 

Good spot Andy

 

And scrutiner stickers on the frame.

 

Didn't realise my eyesight had got so bad. That also means potentially no coolant, just water for an unspecified period of time during the bike's life. Andy

 

Pic of belt cover gap....
Also no plaques on year 2000 bikes.
As said above, looks like a genuine R, but modified to a race/track bike.

 

It's a MY2000 748R, first owner was in Paris. Engine number matches, so yep. It's a R

 

Plus lock-wired oil filter and oil filler cap.