Hola from the Spanish city of Seville, as this edition of “Gone Riding” sees us getting ready to ride the new Ducati Streetfighter V2.
The v-twin addition to Ducati’s Streetfighter lineup, the formula for the new V2 model sees Ducati taking the Panigale V2 superbike, and giving it a look and feel that’s very similar to the Streetfighter V4.
Episode 252 of the Paddock Pass Podcast is out, and this one covers the MotoGP action from the Valencia GP at Spain.
On the mics, we have David Emmett, Neil Morrison, and Adam Wheeler, as they dive into the final round of the 2021 MotoGP Championship season.
I got called out in the comments section of our Ducati Streetfighter V4 SP post for not having enough photos of the carbon-clad machine, despite having a bevy of photos for the new Streetfighter V2.
To make amends, here is the appropriate “mega gallery” photo dump of the Italian brand’s $35,500 sport bike sans fairings.
The Ducati Streetfighter V4 is already a pretty bonkers machine when it comes to “daily riders” that are just as comfortable on the street as they are on the track.
The 205hp on tap seems to come in waves as the V4 engine revs and revs and revs, as you hold onto dear life from the sheer wind force hitting your body.
If you have never experienced this, we recommend it as one of life’s simple pleasures. Like drinking an ice cold Mountain Dew on a hot summer’s day. But we digress…
How do you take a potent machine and crank it up to 11? You give it the “SP” treatment, in the form the 2022 Ducati Streetfighter V4 SP.
After many rumors and some obvious teasers, the folks in Bologna, Italy have finally unveiled the Ducati Streetfighter V2 model for 2022.
The recipe here is simply: take the Ducati Panigale V2 and give it the styling cues of the Streetfighter V4 (sans wings).
When we published our story about the Ducati Multistrada V4 Pikes Peak, we only had a few photos to share with our readers, which of course is not the Asphalt & Rubber way.
It’s a new month now, and we aim to make amends. Accordingly, here is an absurdly large gallery of super-high resolution photos of the street-focused adventure bike, for your viewing pleasure.
A bike we have suspected from Ducati ever since the Multistrada V4 debuted, the Ducati Multistrada V4 Pikes Peak continues a long tradition from the Italian brand in making a sportier adventure-tourer.
That ethos gets taken to another level with this incarnation though, thanks primarily to Borgo Panigale positioning the base Multistrada V4 as a more all-round ADV bike, with its 19″ front wheel and double-sided swingarm.
Returning the Multistrada to its 17″ ways, the 2022 Ducati Multistrada V4 Pikes Peak features not only a smaller front wheel, but also a single-sided swingarm and other sport-focused choices.
Ducati is in the middle of its months long teaser/unveiling program for its 2022 model year machines, and tomorrow morning marks our third installment.
Lucky for us, the Italians have dropped enough hints on what we are about to see, though ironically some of the key details still allude us.
For the motorcycle industry, 2021 is turning into a banner year, as motorcycle sales are booming across all segments. So, it shouldn’t surprise us too much to hear of record sales and standout quarters from motorcycle sales reports.
Here’s an interesting one for you though: Ducati sold more motorcycles in the first nine months of 2021 than it did in all of 2020 (which was 48,042 units).
Now granted, 2020 was an abysmal year for selling motorcycles, but even compared to 2019’s figures, the Italian brand is firing on all of its desmodromic valves.
Of necessity, the past two MotoGP seasons have seen races repeatedly run on the same race track. 2020 was a succession of back-to-back races at the same track: Jerez 1 and 2, Austria 1 and 2, Misano 1 and 2, Aragon 1 and 2, Valencia 1 and 2.
With a better grip on the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 was much better: the first 15 races have been at 13 different tracks. So far we have only had Qatar 1 and 2 and Austria 1 and 2.
The next three rounds will see MotoGP visit just one new circuit. We have the Gran Premio Nolan del Made in Italy e dell’Emilia-Romagna, or Misano 2, the Grande Prémio do Algarve, or Portimão 2, and then Valencia.
Fresh off the news that Energica would be stepping down as the spec-supplier for the MotoE World Cup, today at Misano we learn who will be replacing the small Italian outfit: Ducati.