Archive for December, 2011
Nicky Hayden’s winter vacation was marred on Tuesday, December 27, when he broke his left scapula and fractured two ribs while training near his home in Owensboro, Kentucky. Hayden was training at a private indoor flat track facility, riding a motorcycle for the first time since breaking his scaphoid at the Valencia Grand Prix on [...]
December 30th, 2011 | Posted in MotoGP | No Comments
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope Santa brings you lots of Ducati gifts. Thank-you for your readership and contributions on the site, our FaceBook page and the Twitterverse this year. We’ll take the week off here at Ducati News Today to relax and spend time with our family. Have a great holiday and we’ll see you [...]
December 25th, 2011 | Posted in Site Announcements | Comments Off
Kia Ora! After 7 years in the USA based in Atlanta, GA, Ducati News Today is heading back down to the antipodes.
December 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Site Announcements | 4 Comments
We know, you’re busy. You can’t be expected to check the site every single day looking for something new (but if you do, thanks!). We’ve got your back. The Redux tag is a an opportunity to catch something the second time around that you may have missed.
December 21st, 2011 | Posted in Site Announcements | Comments Off
As the year draws near a close we thought we’d check the logs to see what were some of the most read stories on Ducati News Today in 2011. Some of them were kind of obvious (I’m looking at you Panigale) whilst there were a couple of surprises. Read on to check out the top [...]
December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Site Announcements | Comments Off
If Santa rode a motorcycle he’d base his workshop in California rather than the North Pole. Pro Italia decided to do some Santa style gift wrapping of their own on a Ducati Multistrada 1200. Check out the video of the job after the jump.
December 19th, 2011 | Posted in News | Comments Off
Ducati is opening subscription for the 2012 Ducati Riding Experience (DRE) events, the riding courses suitable for all levels, from absolute beginner to race track specialist. 2011 saw the introduction of the Troy Bayliss Academy and, by overwhelming demand, the 3-times World Superbike Champion and global racing icon returns for 2012 for his advanced track [...]
December 15th, 2011 | Posted in Ducati Company | 2 Comments
Whilst clicking around on the New Zealand equivalent of eBay (trademe), I came across this very optimistic listing for a used 2010 Ducati 1198R Corse SE. The price? $1,000,000. No its not April 1st.
December 15th, 2011 | Posted in Motorcycles | 3 Comments
Ducati Australia is excited to announce that registrations are now open for all its customers, owners and passionate fans to their hospitality facility at the Phillip Island Round of the 2012 World Superbike Championship on 24-26 February.
December 14th, 2011 | Posted in Ducati Company, World SBK | Comments Off
Always wanted to ask 9 time World Champion Valentino Rossi a question? Now you can thanks to Dainese and AGV. The companies are providing an opportunity for fans to put questions to the racing star that he will answer during a live online event.
December 14th, 2011 | Posted in MotoGP | 4 Comments