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Ducati Motorcycle Reviews

	2009 Ducati Streetfighter S - Stripped-Down Superbike Finally, a naked bike that lives up to its name! more

	2009 Ducati 1198S - Bigger And Better The latest in Desmoquattro decadence, from Bologna with lust. more

	2009 Ducati Monster 1100 - Sex On The Beach Ducati's Slimmer, Stronger Monster 1100 Shows Some Leg more

	2008 Ducati Monster 696 - Bologna's "Beginner Bike" Grows Up The beast from Borgo Panigale isn't that scary after all. more

	Ducati 848 - Ten Nine Eight In Miniature - First Ride Lighter Makes Righter For This 370-Pound, 134-Horsepower Middleweight more

	Ducati Desmosedici Rr - First Ride The First-Ever Street-Legal Motogp Replica Is Absurdly Expensive-And Worth Every Red Cent more

	First Ride: 2006 Ducati GT1000 The most functional SportClassic in Bologna's lineup more

	Ducati Multistrada 620 Ducati's Multistrada 620 was designed to be light, agile and easy to ride, the press kit said. Just as well. The hail of a few minutes ago... more

	2005 Ducati Monster The Monster S4R revitalized Ducati's naked lineup in 2003 with its racy looks and potent eight-valve, liquid-cooled engine. But not... more

	First Ride: Big Boost for Bologna's Base Superbike For 2005, Ducati's base 999 has been tuned to produce 140 bhp. That's a hefty 16 bhp more than last year's version--and even more powerful... more

	2004 Ducati Monster 620: Cheap Thrills, Italian-style Europeans always seem to do budget bikes differently. Style often wins over content, particularly for manufacturers who have to work... more

	2004 Ducati Monster S4R: The meanest Monster ever I cranked the throttle for the first time, and the most powerful production Monster lunged forward almost hard enough to bend its fancy new... more

	First Ride: Ducati's 2004 MultiStrada IT WAS DUCATI'S chief test rider Andrea Forni who convinced me about the Multistrada, though I didn't realise it at the time. The Ducati... more

	Ducati Monster S4R: Hungry Like the Wolf? First, Ducati disappointed us by dropping the 916-powered Monster S4 from its 2003 lineup. Then it won back our hearts and minds with the... more

	Ducati 999 World Premiere - Second Ride From Bologna with lust more

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	The EICMA Visitors Elect The New Ducati Multistrada 1200 Best Bike In Show Multistrada 1200... more
	John Stein: 1974 Ducati 750 Super Sport - Riding A Legend Hot Laps On A California Hot Rod... more
	2009 Models: Yamaha YZF-R1, Ducati 1198, Kawasaki ZX-6, Suzuki GSX-R1000 And Honda CBR600RR 2009 Motorcycle Models Wallpaper... more
	First Look: 2010 Ducati Multistrada 1200 Featuring throttle-by-wire, multiple drive modes, traction control, electronically adjustable suspension and more, this is the most technically advanced Ducati ever.... more
	The Ducati Streetfighter - Behind Bars Classic Rock... more

	Ducati's `09 Streetfighter By the time an actual `09 Ducati Streetfighter showed up in our garage, Iâ€™d already decided not to like the thing. Pictures really didnâ€™t do it for me. And the whole idea of a de-fanged,... more
	2010 Ducati Hypermotard 796 Architectural Digest subscribers call Bologna La Rossa because of the red tile roofs around the Piazza Maggiore . Political scientists say the color comes from 50-something years of left-leaning... more
	Thatâ€™s more like itâ€”166 mph on electricity! Before we left the salt flats on Friday we pulled the fairing and tail off the Lightning prototype. I was having high-speed stability issues we thought might have been related to aerodynamics.... more
	Let's get naked! OK, so the Ducati fairing/whale tail combo isn't working as well as we hoped. Time to try something completely different:... more
	Chasing a speed record on a 60-year-old Vincent single Maxton is a sleepy nowheresville in a dry county along the North and South Carolina border, on a broad coastal plain that stretches to the Atlantic ocean 60 miles away.... more

	Multistrada 1200 Hi Aaron, you did it. This is the best write up on the new Multistrada 1200 yet. I check a lot of the other publications and the mix and match their info. Can't they read? Stuff that is already on... more
	Recommendations Wanted: Best All-Around Street Bike The VStroms have alway been on my list as well, they seem to "fit Maintenance costs on the Ducati's turn me off. The other issue I have with the Ducati, Guzzi, BMW and Triumph are the lack of... more
	Electric bikes are a joke And if I live in a sunny southern state and charge my bike on solar panels? Well, I am not going to argue that there are other causal issues that need to be addressed; however, those issue will not... more
	Most exciting 2010 new bikes I have to say, the impending announcements of the Ducati "Strada Aperta Any other exciting "NEW" bikes headed to the mar"... more
	2009 Bonneville I've been interested in the Bonneville for some time and I would like to see a comparison between it's competition like Guzzi, Harley 883 & 1200 and a Ducati Sport. I'm ready for something less than... more