Welcome to BevelHeads.org
BevelHeads is a virtual
motorcycle club. We
specialize in pre-Cagiva era
bevel-driven Ducati motorcycles. Our members possess and
share a wealth of
knowledge for
maintenance, repair, and restoration of these increasingly rare beasts.
You may join by subscribing to the list located
here at micapeak.
The list is relatively low-key with a pretty decent
signal-to-
noise ratio. There is a certain amount of levity, but mostly
folks stick pretty close to the fundamentals.
There's an archive on yahoogroups, but it is by invitation only and
only to
list subscribers.
BevelHeads began in 1997 as a distribution list with about 8 guys on it drawn from Vickie's big Ducati list, run from my home computer (56k modem and all) back in January of 1997. Then Dave Edmondson volunteered to host it out of the UK, and we made it a formal mailing list. He changed jobs, so I took back the admin duties, we shifted it to a host at micapeak.com in January, 1999, and have been there ever since.
It has grown to between 500 and 550 members from at least 13 countries, comprising nearly all of western Europe, Scandinavia, Australian and New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, all of North America. There may be other places hidden behind AOL or similar addresses.
We also have some 'Heads gear for sale on occasion, pins:
and
patches: 
and
occasionally
T-shirts. Loads of additional
interesting and useful information can be found at
Rene's and Sue's website, Ducatimeccanica.com.
Parts
and all sorts of other useful (and scarce) things can often be found at
BevelHeaven.
More
stuff about
post-Cagiva (but still not new) Ducatis can be found at 
,
whose website is here.
The focus of Pantaheads is on Ducati motorcycles that are not
beveldrive Ducatis from Dr Taglioni's era. An alternate name
that
almost became the list name is OddDucs, for they tolerate the various
models such as parallel twins, 2 stroke dirt bikes, and of course
anything with the belt driven 2 valve, air cooled Pantah-design
engines. Since many folks are on both Pantaheads and
Bevelheads, the
social commentary is minimized on Pantaheads and the focus is on
technical problems and part sources (we 'Heads do our best
not to call their bikes RubberDuckies).
We are part of a larger thing or two. One of 'em is the Desmo Owner's Club:
Another's the Ducati Web Ring:
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BevelHeads began in 1997 as a distribution list with about 8 guys on it drawn from Vickie's big Ducati list, run from my home computer (56k modem and all) back in January of 1997. Then Dave Edmondson volunteered to host it out of the UK, and we made it a formal mailing list. He changed jobs, so I took back the admin duties, we shifted it to a host at micapeak.com in January, 1999, and have been there ever since.
It has grown to between 500 and 550 members from at least 13 countries, comprising nearly all of western Europe, Scandinavia, Australian and New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, all of North America. There may be other places hidden behind AOL or similar addresses.
We also have some 'Heads gear for sale on occasion, pins:
and
patches: and
occasionally
T-shirts. Loads of additional
interesting and useful information can be found at
Rene's and Sue's website, Ducatimeccanica.com.
Parts
and all sorts of other useful (and scarce) things can often be found at
BevelHeaven.
More
stuff about
post-Cagiva (but still not new) Ducatis can be found at ,
whose website is here.
The focus of Pantaheads is on Ducati motorcycles that are not
beveldrive Ducatis from Dr Taglioni's era. An alternate name
that
almost became the list name is OddDucs, for they tolerate the various
models such as parallel twins, 2 stroke dirt bikes, and of course
anything with the belt driven 2 valve, air cooled Pantah-design
engines. Since many folks are on both Pantaheads and
Bevelheads, the
social commentary is minimized on Pantaheads and the focus is on
technical problems and part sources (we 'Heads do our best
not to call their bikes RubberDuckies).We are part of a larger thing or two. One of 'em is the Desmo Owner's Club:
Another's the Ducati Web Ring: