I know this site is dedicated to Ducati, but sometimes it is worth resetting the lens to look at something significant in our sport. Today Mat Mladin announced his retirement from motorcycle road racing at the end of 2009 and I wanted to acknowledge his amazing career. Beside he raced a Fast by Ferraci Ducati [...]
Capitalizing on the absence of one Mat Mladin, Team Foremost Ducati’s Larry Pegram claimed pole position for the 2 races this weekend at the Topeka round of the AMA Superbike Championship.
Ducati’s, Larry Pegram, took advantage of Mat Mladin’s decision to not race at Topeka this weekend by taking first blood in the opening practice session. Pegram powered his Foremost Ducati 1098R around the circuit in 1’36, 0.4 second faster than Aron Yates’s Suzuki GSX-R1000. Source: Road Racing World
Rumors of future Ducati’s have only been expanding in recent months but in comments made by Ducati’s marketing chief concerning the Strada Aperta Adventure tourer and possible scooter concepts it was revealed that Ducati is backing away from the Vyper Performance cruiser concept.
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 a special Ducati 750SS that belongs to none other than the Dan, the man behind Rare Sport Bikes For Sale that we reviewed earlier [...]
Ducati are on a roll lately. They followed up the disastrous 999 with the smash hit 1098, revamped the Monster line and have just launched the Streetfighter not to mention updating the 1098 to the 1198. And they’re not finished yet. A highly anticipated Adventure tourer / Multistrada replacement dubbed the Strada Aperta (Open Road) [...]
After months of speculation Ducati has finally confirmed the existence of the Adventure Tourer and that it will be unveiled to the public at the EICMA Milan show in November.
Sedici is the number sixteen in Italian. It usually refers to the MotoGP racer or the limited edition D16RR road bike, because each cylinder of the V4 contains 4 desmodromic valves, hence desmosedici. However there is another way to get to Sedici and that is with a 2-valve 868cc V-8!
Xerox Ducati’s Noriyuki Haga defied the odds yesterday to emerge from the Brno round of the 2009 World Superbike championship with his series lead intact despite riding only weeks after he fractured his right ulna and cracked his left scapula in 3 places at the Donington Park round.
Ducati Seattle is the longest standing Ducati only dealership in the USA and is fast approaching it’s 10th Anniversary next month. To mark this milestone the dealership has hatched a plan to reach total Ducati sales of, naturally enough, 1198 and is offering a number of special incentives to help them reach their goal.
