900 Elefant Lucky Explorer (904cc) 1993

1993 CAGIVA ELEFANT 900 LUCKY EXPLORER – RESTORATION PROJECT

Genuine UK Bike | One Owner From New | Low Mileage | Complete

A very rare opportunity to acquire a genuine UK-supplied 1993 Cagiva Elefant 900 Lucky Explorer.

This is a one-owner-from-new motorcycle with low mileage and, importantly for a project of this type, appears remarkably complete.

It is being offered exactly as it stands as a non-running restoration or recommissioning project.

PLEASE READ – NON-RUNNING PROJECT

The bike does not currently start or run.

We have not carried out a mechanical diagnosis and therefore cannot tell you what will be required to return it to the road.

Rather than speculate about the fault or start replacing parts unnecessarily, we're offering the motorcycle as it stands for somebody who wants to take on the project themselves.

Please therefore assume that mechanical work and recommissioning will be required.

GENUINE UK LUCKY EXPLORER

This is where the bike becomes particularly interesting.

It's a genuine UK-supplied Lucky Explorer, has had just one owner from new, has covered low mileage and retains the bodywork and equipment that make these bikes so distinctive.

Finding an Elefant project is one thing.

Finding a complete, genuine UK Lucky Explorer with this history is something else entirely.

DUCATI 900 V-TWIN

At the heart of the Elefant is the charismatic Ducati 900cc air-cooled Desmodromic V-twin, closely related to the engine used in Ducati's 900SS.

It's one of the great Italian motorcycle engines – torquey, characterful and mechanically engaging.

The use of the Ducati powerplant also means there remains good specialist knowledge and support for the engine itself, which is a significant advantage when taking on a recommissioning project of this age.

DAKAR HERITAGE

The Elefant isn't simply another 1990s adventure bike.

Cagiva's competition Elefants achieved enormous success in the Paris-Dakar Rally, and the Lucky Explorer colours became inseparable from the marque's desert-racing history.

The production Elefant took that rally influence and combined it with Ducati V-twin power to create one of the most charismatic big adventure motorcycles of the era.

Today, surviving examples have become increasingly collectable.

RESTORE IT OR RECOMMISSION IT

There are two obvious ways to approach this bike.

Carry out a full restoration and create a really special example of an increasingly desirable Italian classic.

Or sympathetically recommission it, preserve as much originality as possible and get it back out on the road.

Either way, the important ingredients are already here: genuine UK provenance, one owner from new, low mileage and a complete motorcycle to start with.

KEY DETAILS

Year: 1993

Model: Cagiva Elefant 900 Lucky Explorer

Engine: Ducati 900cc Desmodromic V-twin

UK supplied: Yes

Owners: One from new

Mileage: Low mileage

Condition: Restoration / recommissioning project

Running condition: Non-running

Mechanical diagnosis: Not carried out

Bodywork: Complete

SOLD AS A PROJECT

To be absolutely clear, this motorcycle is being offered as a non-running restoration project / spares or repair.

We have not diagnosed the reason it does not run and cannot advise what parts or mechanical work will be required.

Please view and buy the motorcycle on that basis.

For somebody looking for a worthwhile classic adventure-bike project, however, this is a rare opportunity.

One owner. Genuine UK bike. Lucky Explorer. Ducati V-twin.

A fantastic basis from which to bring one of the most iconic Italian adventure motorcycles of the 1990s back to life.

Please call us to discuss the bike or arrange a viewing.