Ian Gowanloch has legendary status in the Ducati community and not only in his home country of Australia. His farm in the foothills of the snowy mountains is home to 10, 40 foot shipping containers full of Ducati parts making it the Ducati Happy Farm.
We take for granted that every Ducati you can buy today has desmodromic valve actuation (yes even the otherwise icon breaking 1199 Panigale). For the longest time though, Ducati road bikes had valve spring actuation. This 1967 Sport Corsa Demo 350 was the turning point that led to desmodromics hitting the streets.
Following the success of the Ducati 1955 Gran Sport, the very first design effort by one Ing. Fabio Taglioni, Ducati decided to enter the 125 Grand Prix World Championship with a double overhead cam version of the bevel single. This motorcycle is that first prototype GP racer, the Bialbero.
Riders looking for a more practical Ducati have had more choices of late, with the release of the Multistrada 1200 and the Diavel, but these models are still heavily compromised compared to perhaps the most practical Ducati ever, the Muletto.
Just like last year, York Granddad Ted Fenwick won the 250cc single cylinder class in the classic races held on the Isle on Man last month. His Ducati is 47 years old. Ted is 83!
The Museum of Design Atlanta’s (MODA) current exhibit is titled ‘Passione Italiana’ which celebrates the design of Italian motorcycles and naturally Ducati features prominently. The exhibition showcases the design of Italian bikes in the context of fashion, industrial and furniture design. Ducati News Today went along and shot the photos you can see after the [...]
We recently brought you news of Richard Felkin’s Ducati single for the 21st century. Essentially half of a big bore kitted 848, we dubbed the resultant 520 single the Ducati Supermono 2.0. Now Richard has got the bike on track at Willow Springs so let’s take a look at the onboard video.
I got all excited about singles again after our story on Richard Felkin’s Ducati Supermono 2.0. So I decided to remind us all of another modern take on the Supermono that first surfaced in 2009. Alistair Wager has personally worked on 20 of the 67 original Supermonos that were built and thought Ducati should have [...]
A search for a Super Single class racer led to this, a 321 pound wet, 63bhp at the rear wheel Ducati Single, yes Single. As in one cylinder. In a Ducati 848 rolling chassis. Sometimes less is more. Intrigued? Read on.
The Ducati Condor is right up there for the crown of ugliest Ducati ever made (the 600TL at least gets a merit award too). The 350 single engine as first found in the 1967 Ducati Scrambler is the only interesting part of the Swiss Military’s bland, utilitarian motorcycle. A German engineer took the same engine [...]
