Bill Johnson of DucCutters is never one to leave a bike stock for long. So after some cosmetic modifications he decided to boost his custom Ducati Hypermotard 1100S by turbocharging it. This really put the Hyper into Hypermotard!
New Althea Ducati hire, Carlos Checa posted the fastest time during the first day of official testing for the 2010 World Superbike Championship season at Phillip Island, Australia, site of next week’s opening round. Checa is taking well to the V-twin and in fact Ducati took 3 of the top 4 fastest times.
Ducshop Racing will take on the daunting task of entering two Ducati 848s for the historic Daytona 200 AMA Pro Racing Daytona SportBike race at the famous Daytona International Speedway on March 5th. Riders Jake Holden and Dario Marchetti will compete in the 57-lap race on the Ducshop Ducatis.
Last years AMA Pro American Superbike championship had something pretty unusual, races being won by teams other than Yosimura Suzuki!! Josh Hayes impressed on the new cross plane crank Yamaha R1, but so too did Ducati’s Team Foremost Larry Pegram, who stood on the top step 3 times during the year on his near factory [...]
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 something I first discovered last year, Ducati Streetfighter wallpapers for Apple’s iPhone and Ipod Touch.
Production of the keenly awaited Ducati Multistrada 1200. Ducati has announced that the very first Multistrada 1200 has rolled off the production line at the factory in Borgo Panigale. Senior management was on hand to watch the white, S model come into being. Delivery in the USA commences this April. Source: Ducati USA
We ride motorcycles despite the danger. Some might say we ride them because of it. Whatever the reason, 2010 will be seen as an inflection point where a whole host of technologies began to be introduced to motorcycles like the Ducati Multistrada 1200 that largely match those that are now common place in even the [...]
For sale now in the UK is perhaps one of the rarest of all Ducatis. Only 6 Ducati 350SC’s (Sport Corsa) were ever built and this one was raced by Franco Farne in South Africa. This 1966 SC is a hand built racing machine that weighs just 117kg (257lbs) but could hit 124mph. And its [...]
Ducati could be considering a $100,000, carbon framed 800cc follow-up to the wildly successful 2008 Desmosedici RR, which was based on the 2006 GP6 MotoGP race bike, the last 990cc model before the switch the current 800cc regulations. With the spec scheduled to return to 1,000cc in 2012, the changing of the guard could herald [...]
Vyrus 987 C3 4V doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue but then this isn’t too much that is traditional with this new bike. Looking something like the Moto Terminator that featured in the movie of the same name, the Vyrus will be able to terminate most other bikes with its 185bhp from a tweaked Ducati [...]
