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1963 Ducati Apollo Front Side View

It's a tragedy the Apollo project got pigeonholed into the police-bike niche back in the early 1960s. Because with a chassis up to the task of harnessing the substantial power of Fabio Taglioni's superb V-four engine design, a sport-touring--or just plain sporty--Apollo would have revolutionized the sporting motorcycle landscape a full decade before Kawasaki did it with its legendaryZ-1. Still, Taglioni's engine design bore substantial fruit, as half of the Apollo engine formed the basis for Ducati's hugely successful line of OHC V-twins.
The Apollo

 It's a tragedy the Apollo project got pigeonholed into the police-bike niche back in the early 1960s. Because with a chassis up to the task of harnessing the substantial power of Fabio Taglioni's superb V-four engine design, a sport-touring--or just plain sporty--Apollo would have revolutionized the sporting motorcycle landscape a full decade before Kawasaki did it with its legendaryZ-1. Still, Taglioni's engine design bore substantial fruit, as half of the Apollo engine formed the basis for Ducati's hugely successful line of OHC V-twins.  View Related Article
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