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The top 100 most expensive motorcycles sold at auction

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.

Casey Stoner on the GP10 to be auctioned

Motorcycles

Ducati to sell 2010 and 2011 MotoGP race bikes at auction

In a sign of the times, Ducati has announced it will be selling two Ducati Desmosedici GP machines at auction: a GP11 Desmosedici ridden by Valentino Rossi to his only podium of 2011, and the GP10 upon which Casey Stoner won the 2010 Australian GP

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Ducati bets the farm on its hugely unsuccessful new frame design for new Panigale 1199 V-twin

Ducati's new generation v-twin 1200cc sports bike will be announced at EICMA in November. It will use the same frameless design which has been raced and evaluated rather unsuccessfully by Valentino Rossi.

Clockwise from top left: the 2009 MotoGP Desmosedici GP9, two patent application drawings and recently released see-through illustration of the 2010 MotoGP Desmosedici GP10

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Ducati patents frameless roadbike

Ducati is so pleased with the weight saving and additional rigidity afforded by its MotoGP frame design that it has patented the frame for its road bikes.

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Ducati Desmosedici GP9 carbon fibre frame

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.