Nicky Hayden had an impressive crash during qualifying for last weekend’s MotoGP held at Sachensring, Germany. He lost the rear of his Marlboro Ducati entering a turn in wet conditions and was flicked over the highside. That wasn’t the remarkable part, but the bit that happened next was…
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 Shift-Tech Ducati Streetfighter which was described in detail yesterday.
With almost a month of recovery since his Donington Park crash that resulted in a broken right ulna and cracks in his left scapula, World Superbike Championship series leader Noriyuki Haga has vowed to fight hard for as many points as possible during this weekends crucial races at Brno in the Czech Republic.
Some people see motorcycles as pieces of performance art whilst still others see them only as a blank canvas, a mere starting point from which to create something special and unique. Clearly Shift-Tech belong to the second group as they sculpted this Ducati Streetfighter Special in just 4 weeks using a combination of high end [...]
Julien Lecointe has a passion for motorcycles that he combines with his talent for drawing to create a number of works that should appeal to Ducati fans.
Rossi’s German Victory Puts him level with Agostini for Podium Finishes Valentino Rossi took victory by just 1/10th of a second from his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, in the 9th round of the 2009 MotoGP Championship held today at the Sachsenring, Germany. Dani Pedrosa was third from a fading Stoner who had led the race for [...]
Martini Racing is usually associated with race cars but the evocative color scheme looks fantastic on bikes too as this Ducati 1098S special prepared by Hattar motorsports in the USA clearly shows.
A post on Advrider.com reveals this blurry cellphone picture of the strongly rumored 2010 Ducati Adventure Tourer also known as the Strada Aperta (Open Road). The bike is probably not a direct replacement of the Multistrada but will appeal to many owners. The photo seems consistent with the most recent spy photos that we reported [...]
Ducati has confirmed that Noriyuki Haga will race at Brno following his crash at Donington Park and resulting surgery to plate his fractured right ulna. Despite the disastrous week-end, Haga retains a 14 point lead in the 2009 World Superbike Championship ahead of series rookie sensation, Ben Spies, who won both races.
I heard someone remark the other day that a recession was great – Most people have still got the same income and everything’s on sale! To prove how hard it is to sell motorcycles in the current environment Ducati has anounced today another sales promotion entitled FORZA DUCATI which offers 6.75% financing on the entire [...]
