Ducati Desmosedici

Yank Ducati's new Panigale V4 R out of its crate, replace the purely ornamental standard exhaust with a titanium Akrapovic race pipe and fill it up with a fancy "performance oil" from Shell, and you're sitting on a machine capable of 240.5 horsepower.

KTM Motorsports is selling two race-prepared 2019 KTM RC16 factory MotoGP bikes in a move that seems certain to attract global attention.

After 45 years building its brand around the 90 degree V-twin, Ducati today showed its new V4 Stradale engine –​ a 210 hp, 14,000 rpm, 1,103 cm3, 90-degree V4 with 70° offset crank pins to facilitate a "twin pulse" firing sequence for predictable traction and a brand new signature Ducati sound.​

The Paris/Retromobile round of collectible car and bike auctions gets underway this week with sales by Artcurial, Bonhams and RM. Though dozens of cars will sell for more than a million dollars, the world's most important barnfind, the Baillon Collection, will be the star of the show.

Our list of the top 100 highest priced motorcycles ever sold at auction offers unprecedented perspective on the rare motorcycle marketplace. It includes full details and images of each bike, plus links to the official auction page and catalog descriptions.

While carbon fibre has been the construction material of choice for F1 for three decades, the first win by a motorcycle made of carbon fibre at the highest level did not come until this evening.

Ducati has unveiled its 2008 MotoGP machine at its annual The new GP8 Desmosedici is understandably based on the GP7 which won the 2007 MotoGP title, with small but important changes in the area of the frame, rear suspension geometry, motor and electronic system.

Ducati didn’t believe punters would jump at their US$70,000 MotoGP replica motorcycle – how wrong they w

July 11, 2007 World Ducati Week is a strange phenomena – thousands of Ducatisti, members of the Ducati tribe, travel from all over the world for a week of enter

January 18, 2007 The Dolomite mountain scenery of Madonna di Campiglio formed the spectacular backdrop for the official launch of the new Ducati Desmosedici G

June 3, 2006 Ducati became the first manufacturer to release a roadgoing version of a MotoGP race machine yesterday, when it showed the prototype version of th

21 January, 2005 Ducati’s MotoGP season got under yesterday on the Grostè glacier (at an altitude of 2470 metres) as the Desmosedici GP5 appeared in its 2005 li