2006 Airwaves Ducati 999F06!!!!

2006 Airwaves Ducati Factory Race Bike 999F06!!!!

Location: Oslo, Norway
Price: $80,000
Mileage: N/A

Oh boy, if you are a true Ducatist it may be time to print out a few more Benjamins in the basement to afford this thing.  I’ll get the bad stuff out of the way quickly for us mortals:   the starting bid is $80,000.  The good stuff is easy, ITS A FREAKIN WORKS DUCATI!

Here is a little of what I have pieced together.  Back in 06 some of the factories were not too hip on the single tire rule in WSB.  As a result, British Superbike Racing become a haven for works machinery.  The Ducati’s in the BSB series that year were apparently identical to what they were racing in WSB.  This is one of those machines.  This bike was Gregorio Lavilla’s A bike in 2006, 1 of 8 F06’s produced that year.   If you are still on the fence (rolling my eyes)  how about this: the engine is a F07 unit.  Just in case you still aren’t feeling like Troy Bayliss the owner had the bike sprayed in Xerox replica colors.  To round things out the bike has some spares, telemetry equipment and travelling cases.  I don’t think you can ask for much else.  Well, how about a factory mechanic to look after things?

Feast your eyes below.  The two stock photos are for illustration of a FO6 and not the actual bike for sale.

Here are the details from the auction:

Did you ever dream about buying a genuine Ducati race bike? The best of the old breed before the plastic littered 1098 race bikes came along?

Well, here’s your chance because I am offering my very special Ducati 999F06 up for sale.

What is a Ducati 999F06?

Today, Haga and Fabrizio are riding Ducati 1098 type bikes (1098F10) in the World Superbke series but before the 1098 entered the scene the Ducati factory team racers were riding 999 type race bikes from 2003 to 2007 (999F03 to 999F07).

The 999 factory race bikes were raced by famous icons like Neil Hodgson, Ruben Xaus, Regis Laconi, James Toseland, Lorenzo Lanzi and Troy Bayliss.

In addition to this, the Airwaves Ducati team participating in the British Superbike series were given the rare opportunity to race geniuine factory race bikes during the 2006/2007 seasons. These were piloted by Gregorio Lavilla and Leon Haslam, who were given two bikes each.

Please keep in mind the factory bikes (denoted by the F in 999F06) are not the same as the customer/privateer bikes called 999RS. All in all, only eight factory bikes were made in 2006 and my bike is one of them.

What is its history?

This bike used to be Greg Lavilla’s number one bike in the BSB series in 2006 and 2007 and I bought it directly from the team. A letter of authenticity comes with the bike to prove its origin.

The bike was upgraded with a new frame in 2007 and both engines are F07 (factory units from 2007, not 2006).

What’s included with the bike?

A decent package of spares and track duty accessories including a spare engine, several fairing sets, spare wheel sets, front and rear stands, engine starter, a flight case to be used when transporting the bike (used to be Steve Martin’s when he was with Foggy Petronas Racing), front and rear subframe etc. etc. etc.

In addition to this, the bike comes with all its telemetry equipment and some software.

Technical info and manuals on how to start and operate the bike is included

Now I haven’t bought a works bike this year so it may be hard for me to comment on price.  $80,000 is a lot of money but I hate to say this, it doesn’t seem that bad for a modern factory bike and all the extra goodies.   Ducatinewstoday.com speculates the bike could fetch close to $90,000.  In the high end collector market I guess the only knock against it could be that it wasn’t actually Troy Bayliss’s bike.  There, that is my reason not to bid on it!  While I’m waiting for Bayliss’s bike to go on the market you can bid on this beauty .

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