As a rider, over the years I’ve become keenly aware that there are roads you know well and ride all the time, roads you’ve never seen but find yourself making plans to visit, and then roads that from a mere photograph have a unique power … Read More →
Tag Archives: Ducati
The Sweet Sound of 5.1
It’s been an incredible few days as we wrap up the last remaining bits on our new sportbike doc for the National Geographic Channel (which I briefly wrote about previously) but none was nearly as exciting as sitting down at Salami Studios in Burbank, California, … Read More →
Monday 10pm – Twist The Throttle Episode #2: Ducati
Just a quick reminder that the second episode of Twist The Throttle, which showcases Ducati, debuts this coming Monday at 10 pm EST/PST on Discovery’s “HD Theater”! *Channel 76 and 281 on DirecTV, but if you’ve got a different cable system please check your local … Read More →
Twist The Throttle – New Air Dates!
Exciting news — The first episode of “Twist The Throttle”, which is on Honda, has a new premiere date! Discovery HD Theater, which is Channel 76 on your DirecTV system, has scheduled the first episode of the eight part series to premiere on Monday, April … Read More →
Favorite Book of The Year – Hodgson’s Back on Track
With the year quickly coming to a close there’s a certain amount of self-reflection hanging in the air. That quasi-introspective light that reveals both the magnificent and the less then stellar, the things you admire and the thing you’d like to alter when next season … Read More →
We’ve Got Air Dates!!!
A somewhat crazy week ended with a bang — well, not a bang exactly, but we did get some great news…Twist The Throttle now has official air dates! NETWORK: DISCOVERY HD THEATER AIR DATES & TIMES (NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE ’LOCAL TIMES’ ) MONDAY, JANUARY 5TH … Read More →
A Sad Day Indeed… Massimo Tamburini Retires
It is a sad, sad day for motorcyclists everywhere now that word has officially hit the streets that the greatest motorcycle designer of all time has announced his retirement. Sad because as of December 31st there will be a gigantic void standing at the absolute … Read More →
Indy GP Images Ducastista Don’t Want To See
Sad thread going on over at the Ducati.ms forum, called appropriately enough, “Ducati Pile Up” — Apparently for a few Ducatista, the fowl weather and heavy rain at the Indianapolis Grand Prix was not the worst of their day but rather just the beginning… Head … Read More →
Duck, Duck, Goose… Hayden Signs with Ducati
After much speculation, today Nicky Hayden officially signed on as the second rider for Ducati’s Moto GP team for next season. The switch ends a tumultuous multi-year saga of disappointment and frustration for both Hayden and his former Honda Repsol squad. From Roadracing World’s Newswire: … Read More →
Hayden to Ducati… Sure Sounds Like It
As the old expression goes, “where there’s smoke there’s fire”… Apparently during a pre-event press conference at the Indianapolis Grand Prix, Nicky Hayden more or less confirmed his rumored switch to the Ducati Moto GP team next season, saying, It’s no secret. Everybody knows where … Read More →
The Winds of Fate
Photo by Scott Craven The road is bending over itself; twisting, turning, and tumbling towards the edge. Off in the not so distant future lies fragments of tree tops. Big, green conifers that are a visible reminder that a whole new kind of experience awaits … Read More →
A Real World Ducati Engine Rebuild
This one is for the folks out there who’ve always dreamed of pulling their Ducati engines and personally rebuilding them by hand. For the past month and a half an amazing thread has been going on over at the Ducati Monster.Org website. A fellow who … Read More →
All The News That’s Fit To Print
So I guess there’s never a dull moment when you own a Ducati. MotorMilt got a chance today to talk to the service manager over at ProItalia about my bike. Unfortunately my worst fears have been realized. The news was not so good. Apparently while … Read More →
Desmosedici RR Spy Photos
While I was out of town at Willow Springs, Lowell over at Ducati Los Angeles posted some really cool spy photos of what is believed to be the street version of the new Ducati Desmosedici RR. As with all things Ducati, there is obviously some … Read More →
The Ducati MotoGP GP5 Introduction
You have to hand it to those stylish Italians, they sure know how to unveil a new race bike for the upcoming MotoGP season. Today they introduced the new Desmosedici GP5 on top of the Grosté glacier in the Dolomite mountain range in Northern Italy. … Read More →
Motorcycle Magazine Advertising
Ducati is running a new advertising campaign in the latest round of Moto-Mags and as I’ve been seeing the image pop up all over the place, I keep finding myself wondering about the ‘core’ of the motorcycle advertising landscape and perhaps it’s the visual world … Read More →
Ducati: A Photographic Tribute by Phil Aynsley
Phil Aynsley, who’s one of my favorite Ducatista photographers, just dropped a quick line to say that he’s released a brand new masterpiece, ‘Ducati: A Photographic Tribute‘. I haven’t seen the book in person yet, but from the looks of the photos that Phil has … Read More →