With half of 2010 over, its time to review the most popular posts for the first half of the year. So find out what you and others have been reading and maybe even find a gem or two you missed! Predictably 3 of the 10 involve the Multistrada 1200 but you’ll find Superbikes, Streetfighters, Monsters and even a calendar. Continue on to Popular Posts on Ducati News Today
Getting a phone call from Nicky Hayden would be nice enough, but it was so much better than that for Jeffrey Jones when the Marlboro Ducati MotoGP rider left him a message to say he had won the ultimate road going Ducati, the Desmosedici RR. Jones won after purchasing a $40 ticket in the raffle organized by Pro Italia for the Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts in Los Angeles.
No this isn’t a Freddie Spencer-esque demonstration of front end sliding. Bikes both old and new get crashed unfortunately but it always makes your stomach turn a little more when something brand spanking abrades itself into the asphalt. Motorcycle News crashed their Ducati Multistrada 1200 right in front of their photographer who bravely didn’t desert his post and soldiered on. See for yourself after the jump.
If you think a Ducati Multistrada 1200 is too soft for your off road aspirations then how about this? This Beach racer was created by a New Zealand Ducati dealer and started off as a 2003 Ducati 999.
Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday. Every week I will post up something beautiful from the world of Ducati that you just might like to have grace your desktop. This week we have the newly released Ducati 848EVO in the delectable Dark flavor.
Stephan Mertens had a disastrous year in 1992 on his factory Ducati 888, ultimately finishing 7th in the World Superbike title chase without winning a single race, his worse performance since the series began in 1988. Things were looking up in the penultimate round of the series though when he took 3rd in Race 1 at Phillip Island in Australia. Things then went rapidly downhill in race two as the video after the jump clearly shows.
Pierre Terblanche is no longer working for Ducati (to the huge relief of many) but is now plying his designer’s trade over at Moto Guzzi. Recently he spoke on the new Ducati Multistrada 1200 from his perspective of designer of the original air-cooled Multistrada 1100.
With Nitro Noriyuki Haga running out of, well, nitro this season it seems increasingly clear that likeable as he is, he will not be factory Xerox Ducati mounted in 2010. Who to replace him with? Rumors coming out of the Brno World Superbike round were that the team were in talks with 2 time champion and current Tech 3 MotoGP pilot, Colin Edwards.
Valentino Rossi is always in the news. Lately it has been his stunning comeback from a compound leg fracture and of course his impending move to Ducati. Now Sports Illustrated has published its list of highest earning International Athletes and Rossi finishes off the podium in 7th but blows F1 drivers away.
Jeffrey Jones is now the proud owner of the last brand new Ducati Desmosedici RR in the USA. The Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts in Los Angeles today raffled a Ducati Desmosedici Desmosedici RR at the Ducati Island as part of the Laguna Seca US MotoGP round. At just $40 a ticket, Ducatisti had the chance to win the ultimate road going Ducati based on its MotoGP racers. Emphasis on had the chance. Jeffrey Jones walked away with an awesome prize. Congratulations!!!
