Ducati fans eager for the team to make significant progress on their MotoGP effort after a disappointing opening salvo that netted only 7th and 9th at Qatar will have to wait until the end of May to see significant progress. It will take that long to see any significant change in the innovative carbon fiber [...]
Ducati North America is proud to announce the Ducati Community; a cutting edge social media site for Ducati enthusiasts to come together and share their experiences via photo, video and written anecdotes.
A regulatory filing to the California EPA’s Air Resources Board reveals that Ducati has plans for a new Multistrada 1200 model for the 2012 model year. In addition to the base, S and recently introduced Pikes Peak model, a Multistrada 1200S Corse model is noted in the documentation.
Every wondered just how much faster a World class professional motorcycle racer is than the average Joe? How about how much faster than a reasonably accomplished track day level rider or a journalist? Sure we can talk about seconds but a picture or even better a video tells the story so much better. So, how [...]
After riding a Ducati 1198R Superbike as part of his pre-season testing workup on his shoulder, factory Ducati MotoGP star, Valentino Rossi, opined that he might ultimately follow fellow Italian Max Biaggi to the World Superbike Championship once his MotoGP career is over. 3 time champion and Ducati hero, Troy Bayliss, doubts it.
Support for Valentino Rossi’s struggle to overcome a shoulder injury and adapt to the Ducati Desmosedici GP11 has come from some-one with real authority on the subject, 15 time World Champion, MotoGP legend and fellow Italian, Giacomo Agostini.
World Superbike new boy, Marco Melandri proved he is a fast study after taking his maiden victory in the opening race of Round 2 of the World Superbike Championship at the revised Donington Park circuit. He followed that performance up with a second in race 2 behind points leader Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa.
Maxime Berger had a new experience on his Supersonic Ducati during the first World Superbike race at Donington Park – the wheel of his Ducati 1198R looked to have fallen off! It turned out that the rear rim shattered. The race director rather ungenerously labelled Berger’s spectacular exit a crash. Check out the video [...]
Ducati declared yesterday, Friday March 25th, as Diavel night as dealers across North America rolled out the Diavel at a series of events. Ducati News Today attended the NPR Ducati event at Terrapin Brewery in Athens, Georgia. The bike on display was the black Diavel Carbon and it has an impressive presence. Check out our [...]
Roland Sands Design is working on a new project – to convert a Ducati Desmosedici RR into a street legal ‘Street Tracker’. The customer is using one of his 3 D16RRs as the donor machine in what is possibly a graphic example of just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
