Casey Stoner's career has been willfully terminated, when he is at his peak. And don't count on him changing his mind. Then again, he started early, racing from the age of four....
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Ducati built more than 7,000 MHRs, making it the most numerous of all the bevel-drive twin models.
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It's hard to imagine that this iconic Italian motorcycle company, renowned for fast and furious racing bikes and very sexy road bikes, began by manufacturing radio vacuum valves. As the story goes, three brothers - Adriano, Marcello and Bruno Ducati began their radio components business in Bologna in 1926. At the same time, a small Turinese company, SIATA, was building small engines for bicycles. Delete the scoop?
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(Translated from Spanish, a little hard to follow but it's a good piece on Ducati engine evolution and history) With the new Panigale, Ducati has broken with a quarter-century of evolution of their first desmodromic four-valve engine based on the Pantah born in 1980, the last great work of Fabio Taglioni. Ducati has had throughout its history a few models that have now become almost myth, but there is no doubt that all of them, propelled by its engines desmodromic distribution V2 are those who have taken the place it now occupies. With the new Panigale (or 1199 or Superquadro, whatever you call it), it starts a cycle, a new period that closes the engine was that he gave Ducati its greatest glory and his greatest sporting successes. The series began with the 851 has undergone three changes in appearance, which led to the 916/996/998 series, then the 999, and finally the 1098 and 1198, that concludes the story. If Taglioni was the creator of desmodromic system on motorcycle engines, Massimo Bordi has been the engineer who has managed to keep on the crest of the wave in 'modern times'. Until the arrival of the Panigale the basis of all engine Ducati has come from the architecture began with the legendary Pantah. These engines had been created at the end of the year 70 to equip half cylinder bikes, but were increasing capacity from the original 500 cc to over 900 cc, at the end of the decade, and more so in modern times, as they maintain their structure throughout the range of two air-cooled valve signature. However, the 80's were a decade of technical brilliance, the Japanese discovered the art of making great sport, good chassis combined with powerful engines, and twin cylinder air-cooled two-valve cylinder heads of Ducati could not be more desmodromic system that they had with bikes like the Yamaha FZ , the GSX-R or soon after, with the Honda RC30 . Ducati Evolution One such Massimo Bordi back in 1978 had graduated with a thesis on a four-valve engine desmodromic . He had begun to take information and drawings provided by Taglioni in 1973 and 1974 and had designed a air cooled engine with dual spark plug rocker and centered in the head. Bordi, a motor enthusiast, was in love with the four-valve Cosworth cylinder heads, pistons with flat, small angle between valves, its inlet plug straight and centered, about eight-cylinder engines that Ferrari won the 12. And so was desmodromic system of Taglioni, so I decided to merge the two concepts. Bordi came in 1978 in Ducati , but at the time the mark was made ​​in a state conglomerate of companies, started work on diesel engines, and there he remained until the arrival of the Castiglioni in 1985, when it was fished to take over the direction technique. Claudio Castiglioni was quite clear, it was necessary to do something to replace a Ducati as a leader in engines, and it became clear Massimo, the solution was to bring his thesis to the engine then. It was not possible to create a new engine, not just a matter of budget, but because all the industrial structure of production was based on the Pantah engines , and could not replace machinery, molds, tools, etc.. More here: http://www.motociclismo.es/pruebas/carretera/articulo/evolucion-de-los-demosquattro-de-ducati Delete the scoop?
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Ductalk Original Content | Ducati History Lesson | Ducati Sogno Microcamera
Ducati Microcamera - 80,000 lire in 1946 for the base camera without accessories, was roughly equal to the price of SIX MONTHS of an Italian surgeon's salary at the time...
Societa Scientifica Radio Breveti Ducati was founded in 1926 in Bologna, Italy. One of the items they eventually produced in the mid 1940's was this highly prized camera. This is a half frame 35mm microcamera, similar in look and feel to the full frame Leica that it is often compared to but without a doubt, this was by far the finer camera in it's day. One review said it was the difference between a VW Jetta and a Ferrari, and for this reason are very desirable to collectors of fine cameras, not just Ducatista.
Ducati microcameras were built in three models, the top of the line Sogno (this is a Sogno which translates to "dream" in Italian), the Sport with different shutter speeds and the more basic Simplex. The Difference was that the Simplex was void of some of the features, most importantly, the interchangable lenses.
A few hundred cameras were built along with several lenses and accessories, and they commanded rather high prices at the time. It is said that the cost of this camera, 80,000 lire in 1946 for the base camera without accessories, was roughly equal to the price of SIX MONTHS of an Italian surgeon's salary at the time. The inscription on this one, "Non Cedible" and "Per Collaboratore Ducati" makes this one even rarer. It translates to "not for sale" "For collaberation with Ducati" meaning it was a gift to a high ranking person, a racer or a dignitary. (Vicki Smith photo, from the personal collection of Rich Lambrechts and Vicki Smith
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http://cyclenews.coverleaf.com/cyclenews/20111115#pg87Cycle News - November 15, 2011cyclenews.coverleaf.comCycle News, one of the most respected media sources in the motorcycle...
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Great luck is often just great timing and if you happen to be George Betzhold, you are a very lucky guy…..
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The controversial final round of the 1993 World Superbike Season, just two sessions were completed before the riders decided that the organisation just wasn't good enough and boycotted the rest of the meeting.
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Only about 350 of Fabio Taglioni’s Gran Sport 100 were made, but they saved Ducati Meccanica.
Ducati was in trouble. The year was 1954 and the factory had recently lain off 600 workers because of poor sales. Fortunately they had a new boss who had the vision to realise that a race-winning motorcycle could save the company – and Dr Giuseppe Montano knew the man who could design it for him.
The company began in 1926 when Antonio Cacelieri Ducati and his three sons Bruno, Adriano and Marcello founded Societa Scientifica Radio Bravetti Ducati – the first company in Italy to make electrical capacitors and radios. Nine years later the brothers moved into a new factory at Borgo Panigale on the outskirts of Bologna. Before long they were employing 7000 workers and expanded into making electric razors, miniature cameras, refrigerators and juke boxes....more
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Dual Sport bikes have long been a part of Ducati's line up and today Ductalk features the 450 R/T, a true dirt machine created for the American market, with the availability of headlights to make it streetable. It was the first of the dual sport Ducati's to feature desmodromic valves. Sold in limited numbers, many found the motors robbed to make race bikes, making a solid original 450 R/T a fairly rare find today. The brochure featured is from the early 70's distributed by the Berliner Motor Company, the US Ducati distibuter of that day. One of a number of brochures, restoration photos and other historic items featured in Ducati.net's "Museum Ducati - Photos, Brochures, and Unusual Things" area. To see more go to: http://photos.ducati.net/Museum-Ducati-Photos-Brochures
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From the Ducati.net archives - Ducati 200 Muletto. Built in the late 50's to meet Italian working transportaion needs and compete with Piaggio's Ape which was and remains a daily part of the Italian transportation workforce from farms to the inner cities
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Great recap, bike by bike in Stoner's own words thru his storied career. Includes some intresting insight on the Ducati...
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