It always starts the same way. Sitting at my desk doing research in the ultra-plush offices of www.RareSportBikesForSale.com I find a cool bike that I just know that our readers would love. Then I get the nagging suspicion that I have seen the bike before. Quickly jump into the archives and… there it is. So…
For all the grief he received for his redesign of Ducati’s superbike, it’s still pretty clear that Pierre Terblanche had some great ideas for Ducati. Aside from the iconic but rare Supermono, he managed to evoke Ducati’s classic style in modern machinery with his line of SportClassics and, while the style of the original MH900e…
The Ducati brand is steeped in competition; much of what we enjoy today on the street was forged in angry battle on the tracks across Europe. So to was it with this 600cc TT2 machine. Listed as a racebike with a penchant for itinerant touring of local European villages in its youth, this twin now…
Okay, so here’s the thing: all of my early opinions about the 750 F1 were informed by Mick Walker’s Illustrated Ducati Buyer’s guide where the bike got one freaking star. I’m not sure where I put my copy, so don’t crucify me if I got that bit wrong, or if you have an updated edition…
In what is either a collection seeker’s dream or a rider’s nightmare (which side do you fall?) here is essentially a brand new 2001 Ducati 996. Don’t ask me, I do not know how they do that – or why. I tend to fall on the side of overuse; that’s what it was made for…
The Ducati Supermono is usually pure unobtainium, with only 65 units built between 1993 and 1995. They seem to be mostly garage queens that get swapped between collectors and have appeared on RSBFS less than 10 times since the inception of the site. As Tad D wrote back in June of this year, “The Supermono…
The Ducati 851 is literally the bike that saved Ducati from the scrapheap. Prior to the 851 Ducati was in serious financial difficulty and was producing odd bikes like the Paso. In 1985, Ducati was purchased by Claudio Castiglioni’s Cagiva group and shortly thereafter began making world class performance bikes, including the 851 and then…
Today’s eye candy is brought to you by the letter “B” and the number “2.” That would be “B” as in Battle and “2” as in Twins. Straight from the The American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA) website: “The Battle of Twins concept was born in the late 1980s as modern Superbike racing became increasingly…