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Ductalk: What's Up In The World Of Ducati
Ducati News Roundup  Curated by Vicki Smith for Ducati.net |
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CW Editor’s Note: This story is from Cycle World Travel & Adventure, a special print issue chock-full of features dedicated to two-wheeled touring and adventure travel.
Edelweiss invented the luxury guided motorcycle tour market but the Alps Extreme tour is quite affordable versus its other high-end tours.
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Love this quote: Manuel makes us all laugh, saying Ducatis are just like Italian women: “Very moody but usually worth it.”
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Ducati 3C Racing will wild-card all three of its IDM Superbike Championship 1199 Panigales for Xavi Fores and Max Neukirchner in France..
Newly-crowned German IDM Superbike Champion Ducati 3C Racing has confirmed it will step up to the World Superbike Championship with a trio of bikes for the penultimate round of the 2014 season at Magny-Cours.
The team, which sealed both the manufacturers and riders' titles with Javier Fores, Max Neukirchner and Lorenzo Lanzi last weekend at Hockenheimring, has been tipped to make the full step to WSBK competition in 2014 and will use the French outing as an opportunity to evaluate its future.
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This is going to be fun to watch...
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Italian media Dueruote covers a Ducati Panigale team at Bonneville Speedweek
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We are only a week away before the new models for 2015 will begin hitting the internet, but already we are hearing whispers from our Bothan Spies about new motorcycles that are coming forth.
Traditionally Ducati has been a leaking sieve of information, though now under corporate control of Audi AG, the Italian company has been more cautious about letting information slip.
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Factory rider Andrea Dovizioso and Pramac's Andrea Iannone will give Ducati's 'evolution' MotoGP bike its debut in this weekend's Aragon Grand Prix.
Designated the GP14.2, the revised bike is the biggest step so far in Ducati's rebuilding effort, as it works to get back to the front of the MotoGP pack after a win drought now approaching four years.
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Another beautiful shot posted to the Instagram account of "Round the world on his Panigale" Dennis Matson.
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Ducati's Fores Captures IDM/German Superbike Championship At Hockenheim
The Ducati 1199 Panigale R triumphs in the German Superbike championship
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11 wins out of 15 races. Ducati Domination!
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Crash.net catches up with Ducati WSBK rider Chaz Davies to discuss his season so far, the future and his opinions on the Circuit of Wales.
Q&A Chaz Davies
Crash.net
This is your first season on the Ducati, how do you view it so far?
Chaz Davies
It's gone about as expected. It's been up and down with podiums here and there. The podium at Imola came a bit out of the blue, I didn't expect to be quite that competitive there, and then in six races I had three DNFs in Portugal, Misano and at Laguna Seca I barely started. We had some DNFs there but I felt that the pace was there with a front row at Portimao and Laguna and then getting on the podium last weekend at Jerez. It's been about what was expected and a little bit up and down but it's a development year and we've gone from strength to strength in a few areas of the bike but as we've improved in some areas we've had to change the way that the bike works in others. We've made it a lot lighter, its lost 5kg compared to last year, and the engine is a lot more powerful so we're playing around and getting closer to the limit of the bike.
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Very intelligent interview, worth a read
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Key Ducati Corse MotoGP Development Ingredient Pirro in Play???
In a move that potentially could severely undercut the Ducati Corse development program, Italian media is reporting that Aprilia has contacted Ducati test pilot Michele Pirro regarding a full time position on the Aprilia factory GP entry that deploys in 2015.
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Is this Aprilia just plain playing dirty? Hard to see it any other way...
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A ride and review of the 2015 Ducati Monster 1200 S by Jeff Wilson for DoubleClutch.ca.
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Misano was the stage for a flurry of negotiating among riders, though much of it was dependent on the fate of Scott Redding. As was previously the case with Marc Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo and Cal Crutchlow, Redding was proving pivotal in which seats would be available. With Redding now firmly ensconced in the Marc VDS Racing team for the next two years, the other seats can start to fill up.
Below is a list of all of the seats currently filled and available in MotoGP, with notes on individual contracts and speculation on who could fill the empty seats.
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Officially right now there are still three open Ducati seats on the 2015 grid...
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Cal Crutchlow says he is not worried that his nightmare experience at Ducati will have an impact on his switch to the LCR Honda squad...
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Hard to believe, but the Italian muscle cruiser just got even better
Like the way this guy writes. His descriptions are like the old Fast Bikes mag style of writing which never failed to make me laugh out loud.
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Extending the LONG tradition of bike unveiling's at EICMA that have previously been outed on the internet in endlessly various ways
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A motorcycle ride of a lifetime from San Francisco, California
to Anchorage, Alaska on a Ducati SportClassic and a KLR – captured by two photographer friends with the end goal of making a book called The Ride North.
Photos so spectacular it'll send you bucket list planning (that's a SportClassic under all that luggage)
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One of the reason we show concept sketches here on Asphalt & Rubber is to help churn the imagination of our more creative two-wheeled brethren, so it warms my soul a little bit when a reader sends me something they’ve produced, which is due in part to their daily A&R patronage.
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Five possible explanations for some of the trouble that the Ducati rider has encountered this season. Technical Editor Kevin Cameron breaks it down
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One man discreetly rules Tennessee's Route 129, the deadly two-lane known as the Tail of the Dragon. We brought a Ferrari, a little courage, and a hint of stupidity to chase him down.
This road is legendary to Ducati riders. Thought this story, though mostly car based, was still really worth sharing (and yes, the guy on the right IS wearing a Ducati shirt)
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A technical look at Ducati’s street-legal 1199 Superleggera sportbike.
Ducati’s 1199 Superleggera was awarded the Best Superbike title by Cycle World this year. No additional words are needed, right? Wrong. needed! Its 390-lb. “ready to ride” weight is fantastic for a fully dressed superbike with 200-plus horsepower. It really is the closest there is to a pure SBK racer in terms of power to weight. It’s the ultimate version of the Ducati 1199 Panigale, which, even in its base form, is a benchmark with regard to weight containment
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The custom world is dominated by studiously monochrome bikes, so this bright and breezy little Ducati Vento café racer is a welcome splash of color.
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The hard front wasn't getting up to temperature, he believes
Movistar Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi says Bridgestone’s hard compound wet tyres were at fault for the MotoGP free practice crash-fest at Misano today with the accident tally going into double figures and The Doctor himself going down this morning. Rossi crashed on the brakes with zero degress of lean angle and it was an accident replicated throughout the field. Andrea Iannone and Pol Espargaro had the same crash in turn one within second of each other, and Rossi said it is down to the tyres. - See more at: http://www.bikesportnews.com/news-detail.cfm?newstitle=MotoGP-Misano:-Bridgestone-at-fault-for-crashes---Rossi&newsid=12983#sthash.oihGY2UD.dpuf
Tough day, both sessions were crash fests...