In Wamena, a sprawling town in the highlands, it is wise to take a bicycle rickshaw, not a motorcycle taxi.

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Simpson didn't have an engineering degree, either, but that didn't stop him from constructing a motorcycle with a bicycle and a stolen motor when he was an Air Force staff sergeant on Saipan during WWII.

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Above the factory floor, the semicircular gallery of the museum showcases the evolution of the Ducati motorcycle from the early days just after World War II, when the company introduced its first auxiliary bicycle engine (called the Cucciolo, or "puppy, " because of the distinctive barking sound it made), up through the company's first motorcycles in the 1950s and the road bikes and racing bikes that followed.

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