Here begins his love for the world of workshops and machines.
Born on 15/12/1946 in Benifato, a small town in the Guadalest Valley, Ricardo Fracés grew up in front of a small smithy where he spent hours there as a child, watching the bicycles, motorcycles, radios, clocks, welding the broken pieces, repairing hunting rifles, ... Here begins his love for the world of workshops and machines.
With the short age of 13 years and dared to drive a Vespa 125 2nd model, his father, this was in the 60s. At age 18 dreamed of a Derbi Gran Sport 74, but it was only a dream. At the age of 19 he tried to buy a sports motorcycle, the Ducati 125 Sport or the Ducati 200 Elite but for the precarious family economy he had to settle for a Ducati 175 TS, shared with his brother.
Photo by: Felix Henkelmann [CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons
