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Pantah 600 SL
Actually it was the plan for 2004 to buy a Monster 1000 to replace the PASO. This plan went into the dust when I found the DB1. It was further never the plan to buy a 2nd bike during that year, but it happens sometimes differently. Of course a Pantah was my first bike and I was sure that sooner or later I would find one somewhere, but this time it was all the fault of Gio that this happened so early. He bought his Pantah just 2 weeks before, so I was of course more awake for every Pantah that was on the market. Even if would take me years to restore it into a perfect condition - at the moment I bought the bike I knew that it would be worth it. There are two options for restoring a Pantah. The first is to restore it as original as possible. The 2nd is to restore it as a TT Replica. Those TT Replicas have been really rare. The first Replicas from Tony Rutters TT have been build in 1980. The original factory kit to build a TT came from NCR and the price at that time was 1368000 Lire. The parts that you got for that price have tuned the Pantah to 582.7 ccm and 70 PS. On top came the beautifull NRC tank, other brembos and some minor additional stuff. Two pictures of original Pantah TT machines
I found my new Pantah in Krefeld (Germany). Gerd, the rider of the bike bought it new in the shop an did ride it all the years. The bike was in a fair condition so that it could be considered as a good deal. The 2nd reason why this bike was that is had a very rear an beautiful NCR aluminum race full tank. Pictures of the bike in original state: Moving the bike to Luxembourg: Passing Sandweiler: Looking back, passing the bike over Sandweiler was actually a funny story. First try: Riding to Ettelbrück to present the bike to the customs, went without a problem. As I was already in the north with the bike I went to Wilverwilz and arrived after an enjoyable right 16:10 at the "Control technique". The guys there haven't been motivated enough to start working after 4 PM so they just send me back home. Two days later was considered as the last day of the season. Nice weather motivated me to try to pass Sandweiler that day. I arrived 9:10 AM. Aggregation - Everything went fine - After 30 min a nice guy took a look at the bike. At10 AM I got my waiting number. 11 AM I received the papers back and could address the "Control technique". While moving the bike outside I noticed that the starter did not work anymore. Pressing the starter did not show any result. At the same moment I noticed a voice saying "Hello" - It was "George" from the Peller guys. First we tried to push the bike but it did not work. After some troubleshooting without any tools we found out that the key lock was broken. I tried to shortcut the starter lock and I was able the start the bike while George was pushing me, because the battery was already entirely dead from troubleshooting. I did thank him very much and decided to ride to the apartment to find out what I could do about it. I did disassemble the bike in front of the apartment. A 50 years old very Italian bank director in an expensive suit passed by with his child and wife. He was amazed about the "bella moto" and had a 5 minutes talk with me in Italian. I dismounted the starter lock and confirmed that it was broken. While disassembling I found 4 cables. One brings the power; one is for the lights and the other two did allow me to start the bike. I just connected one of them plus the light cable to the stand light position on the starter lock . That would be sufficient for Sandweiler. While restoring the bike during the winter I would have anyway to renew everything regarding electrics. Next thing was, I had to push the bike up and down "Belle Aire" to start it because the battery was dead. I love pushing a Pantah. I had a lot of experience with that when I was 18 years old. Riding back to Sandweiler I just had one thing in mind: What could the redundant cable mean that I did not connect? I was shocked because I came to the conclusion that the bike might not load the battery. Arriving at Sandweiler about a quarter to 1 AM, I need 5 minutes to check in and about 1.5 hours in the queue to reach the "control technique". I paid the 26 Euro and the guy send me to row 4. That was a disaster because I found out that row 4 did mean to depend on the guy who did not like me at the last time when I was there with the Bimota. This guy was to busy to notice me. While I was waiting 10 minutes and all other queues did move he had to disassemble a Ford Break to really find all the problems that this poor car could have. I decided to move to row 3 at a moment when no one did notice me. It worked! And when I finally did reach my hangman in row 3, I told the guy that I would probably not be able to start he engine because I did leave the lights on in the "Aggregation" and blablabla..... He responded that I could immediately leave if I would not be able to start the bike. I pushed the button and the Pantah did start immediately :-) The guy was nice. When he finished and I was already almost gone, finally he did call me back because he noticed that the color of the bike was "red" in the papers. He decided that it was "red-green". So I got one "hole" for the wrong color. I went to the breaks, every thing went smoothly and at 10 minutes to 3 PM I ,reached again the "Aggregation". 30 Minutes to check in and I found "Cousin Mike". He was quite annoyed because he spent the day there with his new car. At 3:30 PM I got my waiting number. At 4 PM I finally held my papers in my hands. One day was gone... Finally I could push the bike for the last time because the battery was dead ;-)
Back home
The bike at "die Wiese 2004"
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