If you’re looking to pick up one of Tamburini’s iconic Ducati superbikes, now is the time. They appear to have hit bottom a while ago, and values are on the rise. I mean, we’ve seen 748s for as little as $3,000 so how much lower did you expect them to go before you were planning…
Legendary motorcycle designer Massimo Tamburini had a long and storied career. From co-founding iconic motorcycle manufacturer Bimota, to penning some of the most striking designs in motorcycling history for the likes of Cagiva, Ducati and MV Agusta, Tamburini has been responsible for many a rider’s dream machine. You might have seen some of his design…
Well, it’s finally starting to happen: the days of dirt cheap Tamburini Ducati superbikes are coming to an end. Yeah, 748s and 996s still offer some pretty great bang for your buck but, if you were planning to pick up a first-generation 916 like this nicely-upgraded bike for peanuts, you’d better get cracking. What, you…
The second generation of MV Agusta’s superbike as exemplified by this F4RC was more sophisticated, more refined, but no less dangerous. It’s not really a question of power: there are obviously plenty of other literbikes with similar [or better] power-to-weight ratios. It’s the general sense of wildness, an absolute willingness to murder you if you…
By the time Ducati’s 916 was retired, they’d wrung just about everything out of the bike there was to wring, and the sportbike world had moved on. From a stylistic perspective, the 998 was far too familiar after ten years and, while the design was still considered a classic, it was decidedly… classic. Of course…
The MV Agusta F4 750 is so often referred to as “one of the most beautiful motorcycles ever created” that it’s easy to forget it’s actually a pretty good motorcycle as well. Sure, it’s brutally uncomfortable and a little bit heavier than the competition, but the engineering is sound and it’s an impressively refined piece,…
If you’re a sportbike fan, bikes like the Ducati 748R might seem like the poor cousin to the 916/996/998, a bike you only bought because your funds wouldn’t stretch to the more expensive, larger-displacement version. But no “R” model Ducati really takes a back seat to anything: they were homologation specials, and the 748R was…
An MV Agusta F4 750 Senna “signed by the master” would normally mean that it was signed by its creator, Massimo Tamburini. In this case though, the “master” in question is Giacomo Agostini, the famous rider who rode MVs to victory in so many races during the marque’s heyday. The F4 was to be their…