Only a very few will ever ride the best V-twin Superbike ever produced, the Ducati 1098R. At almost US$44,000 and more than double the price of the lower spec 1098 models, the Ducati is reserved for the wealthiest and/or most deeply committed Ducatisti. However for 2009, Ducati massively upgraded the specifications of the mainstream Superbike [...]
A Ducati of any type is exotic enough for most folks but for some the limited run homologation special R models are the ones to covet. When you switch to racing Ducatis, a very few gain access to the customer racing RS models but a true factory machine is the rarest of all. A bike [...]
After a nasty crash put him into hospital during the 2nd race of the World Superbike round at Donington Park, Noriyuki Haga’s hope of taking his first ever World Superbike Championship seemed to be fading fast once it was revealed that his injuries included a damaged vertebrae in addition to a fractured wrist and suspected [...]
Spies Wins Again as Haga Air-lifted to Hospital Yamaha’s Ben Spies took the double at the 9th round of the World Superbike Championship at Donington Park in the UK. The victory was almost flag to flag like the first race after Spies passed a fast starting Max Biaggi within the first few turns. The race [...]
Spies Makes it 9, Biaggi Shines Yamaha’s Ben Spies made it 9 race wins this season following his flag to flag victory in the first race of the 9th round of the World Superbike Championship at Donington Park in the UK. Max Biaggi on the Aprilia RSV4 shadowed Spies all the way as they almost [...]
Rossi Takes Victory, 100th Win and MotoGP Championship Lead Valentino Rossi followed up his stunning last lap victory in Barcelona with a boring but convincing victory over his younger team mate, Jorge Lorenzo, in Round 7 of the MotoGP Championship at Assen to win his 100th GP and re-assert himself at the head of the [...]
Team Foremost Ducati 1098R owner and racer Larry Pegram was interviewed by Road Racer X magazine following his victory in the 2nd race at the Road America round of the 2009 AMA American Superbike Championship. This was only Larry’s second career Superbike win coming 10 years after his inaugural victory also on a Ducati. He [...]
A Spy Shot of a clay mock-up reported by Motorcycle News seems to add further credence to the rumor that Ducati really is going to produce a power cruiser for their increasingly important US market in the vein of the Yamaha V-Max and Harley Davidson V-Rod.
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 controversially styled 2009 Ducati Multistrada S.
Ducati built its modern racing pedigree with the desmoquattro engine but long before it powered the 916 it was Marco Luccinelli and Raymond Roche on the blood red Ducati 888′s that fired up the fans and began what became the Ducati domination of the World Superbike championship. The 1993 Ducati 888SP5 was the final road [...]
