Singles and motard style bikes are still big in €urope. I'll be very interested to see how much better (if at all) the Ducati motor is than KTM's 690. It might even spur KTM to upgrade their 690 offering.
A 660cc revving to 10.25k?
That's just greedy.
My mate Brian raced one.The Spin Doctor wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:35 pm The Supermono from 93 was a 550 desmo, which allegedly put out around 75 hp at 10,000 rpm.
And that was available as a road bike... someone I knew had one.
Valves ain't the problem it's the bottom end. The v2 panis rev higher with similar sized valves.The Spin Doctor wrote: Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:35 pm The Supermono from 93 was a 550 desmo, which allegedly put out around 75 hp at 10,000 rpm.
[And that was available as a road bike]... EDIT double-checked my memory and whilst... someone I knew had one... I think he must have converted it himself for the road!
Unless they follow KTM's lead and make 2 levels of spec; a base model and an 'R' (or probably SP in Ducati-speak) model which is significantly higher-priced.Potter wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 4:08 am Making it high end won't make financial sense because this isn't the 90's so there isn't enough people to buy them, so the accountants will make them put budget suspension on it, budget generic parts, and punt it out at a price that still doesn't really make sense to anyone when you can get a KTM much cheaper.
That's some serious engineering porn... The blog seems to terminate in 2020, is there a continuation anywhere?porter_jamie wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 8:04 am Chris cosentino has made a custom mono with a Ducati cylinder head and a ffe chassis. It's pretty cool.
https://instagram.com/cosentinoengineer ... BiNWFlZA==
You're clearly not drinking the Ducati Kool-Aid... Don't you realise that the magic pixie dust associated with the Ducati brand means that all of their products are unconditionally desirable, irrespective of price?Potter wrote: Fri Oct 27, 2023 12:50 pm I think it's a given that they'll do an SP version, but that will be twice the price of the KTM/GasGas is and I'll be a monkeys uncle if it's twice as light and twice as good.
Sadly I feel like Ducati has lost it's sheen for me, you either pay £50k+ for something special, or you take a fairly run of the mill looking offering that's only as good but twice the price as anything the Japanese have made, ITMS.
