After qualifying 3rd for last weekend’s Indianapolis round of the MotoGP championship, Marlboro Ducati’s Nicky Hayden thrilled the crowd at the Indy mile by making some demonstration laps on the Llyoyd Brothers Ducati Flat Tracker.
Ducati seems to be in just about every movie these days, and we know Tom Cruise is a Ducati fan so what’s the big deal? Cruise and the Ducati Hypermotard feature in the recently released Knight and Day but take a close look at the photo above and you’ll notice it isn’t really a Ducati [...]
Can water put out a fuel fire? Turns out, actually No. Don’t pour water on a fuel fire kids. This guy did on his 1984 Ducati 900 Mike Hailwood replica after a rubber line touched a hot pipe and caught fire and, well, it didn’t have a happy ending. Makes you want a chemical fire [...]
The NCR New Blue is a gorgeous tribute to Cook Neilson’s 1977 Daytona victory on a Ducati 750SS known as Old Blue. Just 50 were made and available from Ducati dealers for $67,000. The bike was sold as a track only bike, but this one has been converted for road use. Checkout the gallery after [...]
Ducati North America have announced the arrival of the new Monster 796 with a national dealer premiere on June 25-26th. The Monster 796 dealer premiere will take place at participating dealers with an event on the evening of Friday June 25th, where an unveiling and evening of festivities will take place. On Saturday June 26th [...]
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 newly released 2010 Ducati Monster 796.
This round case bevel drive flat tracker was displayed at a 1970′s motorcycle show by Berliner, the official US Ducati importer at the time. The bike was campaigned in the late 1970′s GNC Dirt Track circuit by Kenny McDonald and Steve Freeman.
Older Ducatis are especially beautiful to my eye and racing ones even more so. It also turns out that many of the rarest Ducatis are also the easiest on the eye (think Ducati Supermono). Trawling around the web, I came across this mid 1970′s Factory NCR Ducat 900 Formula 1 racer. The same basic bike [...]
The Ducati Hypermotard is a great bike with a punchy power delivery, relatively light weight and just plain smile inducing when you ride it. Hattar Motorsports in collaboration with NCR of Bologna took the Hyper and added power whilst shaving off 120 pounds.
Ducati celebrated its first ever Grand National Flat Track victory in Saturday’s Yavapai Downs Mile when Joe Kopp took his Ducati Hypermotard powered flat tracker to victory over the Harley hordes. The victory Ducati victory marks the first time that a readily available production engine has won a Grand National Twins race in 29 years. [...]
