When MotorcycleUSA conducted their 2011 Performance Cruiser Smackdown they included the Ducati Diavel as a wildcard, not really including it in the test that pitted bikes like the Harley Davidson Night Rod, Triumph Thunderbird Storm, Star Raider, Suzuki Boulevard and Victory Hammer. How’d it do?
Motor Trend magazine put the Ducati 1198S to the test against another passionate Italian rival, one with two too many wheels, the Ferrari 458 Italia. As expected it handed out a thorough thrashing to the supercar, well at least in the hands of professional road racer Steve Rapp. See for yourself in the video after [...]
Motorcycle News has completed a comparison of the new Ducati 848EVO against some of its Supersport rivals – the Triumph Daytona 675 and the Yamaha R6. Although the Ducati is really an entry level Superbike rather than a true Supersports machine, with prices starting at $12,995 it isn’t a totally unrealistic cross shop. As the [...]
The Ducati model range is proliferating so that we now have on the face of it 3 very similar Monsters, the baby 696, the grande 1100 and the new 796 in the middle. Is it just right? MCN seems to think so in the video after the jump.
A Win for Ducati in Head to Head VideoIn one of the first head to head comparisons of Ducati’s new Multistrada 1200 against BMW’s class leading R1200GS, Motorcycle News concludes that Ducati wins unless you only want to tour and have to have a BMW. The Ducati is designed for and appeals to riders who [...]
Although much has been made of the impending Adventure tourer war between Ducati’s new Multistrada 1200 and the head honcho of the class, BMW’s R1200 GS, a comparison of the two shows they really have little in common and different ends in mind. No, the new Italian for all roads and riders has more in [...]
Okay so the comparison seems a little biased. The trick MotoGP refugee Ducati Desmosedici is running carbon fiber fairings, slicks on 16.5″ rims and claims 203bhp at the wheel but the Ferrari 430 Scuderia has 510bhp, carbon ceramic brakes and hits 0-62mph in 3.6 seconds on it’s way to 198mph. Ferrari says it laps their [...]
Only a very few will ever ride the best V-twin Superbike ever produced, the Ducati 1098R. At almost US$44,000 and more than double the price of the lower spec 1098 models, the Ducati is reserved for the wealthiest and/or most deeply committed Ducatisti. However for 2009, Ducati massively upgraded the specifications of the mainstream Superbike [...]
Ducati built its modern racing pedigree with the desmoquattro engine but long before it powered the 916 it was Marco Luccinelli and Raymond Roche on the blood red Ducati 888′s that fired up the fans and began what became the Ducati domination of the World Superbike championship. The 1993 Ducati 888SP5 was the final road [...]
Actual comparison tests that include the MotoGP derived Ducati Desmosedici RR (D16RR) have been thin on the ground which always surprised me because ipso facto the über Ducati should be able to laud it over all comers being effectively a 2006, 990cc racer with lights, indicators and mirrors. Now Motorcyclenews has put it up against [...]
