Cagiva Gran Canyon for sale
SELLER SAYS: This 900 Gran Canyon is my third Cagiva, after an Alazzurra 650 and a 900ie Lucky Explorer. Now I have an ’05 Ducati ST3, so sadly it’s time to sell. This is an Australia-delivered (March 2000), two-owner bike. Basically used as a ‘sit-up’ touring road bike. Excellent overall condition, it clearly has had an easy life! Factory original except for starter wiring upgrade kit (ExactStart), Givi top box, and headlight protectors. Matching panniers were fitted from new. Full Victorian registration to May 2025. Can be Vic red-plated in 2025. Full service (belts, shims, all fluids, etc) around 500kms ago by Rohan at MotoWorx. Pirelli MT60 tyres are like new. Chain and sprockets are showing no wear and the battery was replaced in 2022. Contact Brian on 0409 024 482 (Castlemaine, Victoria).
EDITOR TERLICK SAYS: We can probably thank BMW for the huge selection of big-engined tall-seated bikes that we loosely call “adventure” bikes these days. When BMW first released its R80GS in 1980, I remember thinking it was the most silly thing I’d ever seen. Who wants a trail bike with a great big engine? Or a road bike with such long suspension? Turns out, nearly everybody on the planet wanted one and, when Gaston Rahier won a Paris-Dakar aboard one, even I had to eat my words. Truth is, the old-fashioned upright sitting position is actually a very comfortable way to ride a bike, even for a long time on the open road. And even a big heavy machine can manage dirt roads very well indeed if you build in some long suspension. Cagiva was relatively quick to join the adventure market, using frames of its own making and Ducati’s much loved 900SS motor as the powerplant to underpin the wonderfully-named Elefant. The Gran Canyon is a direct descendant of the Elefant which, I’m sure you already knew, pulled off its own Gaston Rahier moment in 1990 when it too won the Paris-Dakar, beneath the skillful legs of talented Italian rider Edi Orioli. This bike of Brian’s doesn’t look like its seen any time jumping sand dunes or crossing deserts, but would make a wonderfully stylish and exotic alternative to a GS Beemer. Very cool.
