If it’s rare, exotic and European, the chances are you’ll find it at Brooklyn’s Moto Borgotaro. Owner Peter Boggia is a man of exceptional taste, and has a knack for hunting down the sort of motorcycles that mere mortals can only dream of owning. But the latest machine to grace Moto Borgotaro’s shop floor is…
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Most customs are driven by aesthetics. A handful are defined by engineering, and this very strange Ducati from St. Petersburg is one of them. It comes from Vitaliy Selyukov of the Balamutti workshop, and he’s a dab hand at pushing the engineering envelope. He’s the man who built a three-wheeled Hypermotard ice racer, and he’s…
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The motorcycle designer Pierre Terblanche is famous for his Ducatis, but not always in a good way. Most folks would give the SportClassics and Supermono a big tick, and there are a lot of folks who also like the Hypermotard too (this writer included). But for every hit from the South African designer, it feels…
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Even though the Ducati 900 SS is some three decades old, we still see a lot of customs based around the 90° V-twin Desmo engine. A little online digging reveals the reason: over 25,000 examples of this model rolled out of the factory in Borgo Panigale. That’s an impressive number, and around half of Ducati’s…
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Like any proper cult vehicle, the Ducati SportClassic was hugely under-appreciated when it was first released. That’s probably because it was ahead…
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Mike Vienne is a man obsessed by weight. His specialty is turning blunt knives into razor-sharp scalpels: or rather, improving sportbikes by…
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You could call it a mongrel, or a parts bin special—but we reckon this unusual Ducati is one of the cleverest and…
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We don’t see many customs from Russia. But Moscow-based Birdie Customs and their founder Ilya are doing their best to remedy that,…
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In the automobile world, if you need a millimeter-perfect restoration or subtle upgrades to the icon in your garage, you go to…
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Ducati’s back catalog is littered with hits and misses. Consider the Ducati 900 SuperSport: the early 1990s version is a classic beauty;…
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Jay LaRossa is one of those guys who was probably born with copper grease under his fingernails. His parents ran motorcycle dealerships,…
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The Ducati 900 SS is one of the great bargains in the motorcycling world. And not because it’s a bad bike. On…
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