Published December 31st, 2006
in News and Noteworthy.
The Motley Fool, an American self-help investment website has posted a review of Ducati’s financials called “Ducati Revs”…
Long story short, Ducati has a long road ahead of it before it can catch up to profitable rivals such as Japan’s Honda (NYSE: HMC), or America’s Polaris (NYSE: PII) and Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG). But at least it’s […]
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Published December 30th, 2006
in General and Noteworthy.
It’s a few days late for Christmas I admit, but if that new Nintendo Wii didn’t show up here’s the solution for lil’ Junior… A Peg Perego battery powered Ducati Monster for 3 to 7 year olds…
The Peg Perego Ducati Monster is as close to a “real” Ducati as any boy could imagine! Your son […]
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Published December 30th, 2006
in Rumors and Noteworthy.
According to the rumor mill Ducati has recently given dealers an update on the status of the Desmosedici RR. This update claims that 1,000 orders for Desmosedici RR have been taken with production tentatively scheduled to begin in July 2007. 999R owners make up nearly half of the pre-orders and will receive their bikes before […]
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Published December 28th, 2006
in News and Noteworthy.
Raptors & Rockets has posted an short but interesting interview with Giandrea Fabbro, the man behind the design of the new Ducati 1098 Superbike.
What was your design philosophy with the new 1098?
“It was to design a sportbike without any compromise, without any understatement and the image had to be sport. That’s why it is […]
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Published December 27th, 2006
in News and My Life in TV.
Just a short post-holiday announcement: For those of you who haven’t picked up a copy of Speed On Two Wheels on DVD. Over the weekend we started accepting Google Checkout on the SOTW website as a form of payment, so if you’re anti-Paypal or not inclined to use them for whatever reason we’ve now got […]
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Published December 24th, 2006
in News.
Superbike Planet has posted an interview with Claudio Domenicali, Ducati’s Project Director that sheds a bit more light on the development of the 1098…
Ducati spends a lot of money racing. Racing is about spending, while our production based street motorcycles are about earning. We spend in racing and as a result earn with our production […]
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Published December 22nd, 2006
in Rides.
Over the course of the last several weeks, I’ve definitely slowed down on the blogging front. This is partially because I’ve been pulling some long days & nights editing, partly because I’ve been slammed with a horrendous head cold and quite frankly because there hasn’t been all that much going on. It’s a quiet time […]
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Published December 22nd, 2006
in News.
Short & sweet, but delivering 148 HP on the Dyno…
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Published December 19th, 2006
in News.
Well, the major props keep rolling in… Motorcycle Daily has posted an extremely flattering review of the 1098 - and perhaps most interestingly they claim traction control is indeed coming on future models…
The beautiful new 1098 can become a gold mine for the Bolognese brand, and inscribe in gold a new era. With curvy […]
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Published December 13th, 2006
in News.
Short & sweet this morning… Here are two more vids from the Ducati Press Launch : Starting Up The Bike & On The Straight Away.
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