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 of its time—blending retro style with contemporary performance, just before modern classics were as popular as they are now. Or maybe it’s because its looks simply didn’t gel with everyone. Most pundits think…
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Read more »You could call it a mongrel, or a parts bin special—but we reckon this unusual Ducati is one of the cleverest and…
Read more »We don’t see many customs from Russia. But Moscow-based Birdie Customs and their founder Ilya are doing their best to remedy that,…
Read more »In the automobile world, if you need a millimeter-perfect restoration or subtle upgrades to the icon in your garage, you go to…
Read more »Ducati’s back catalog is littered with hits and misses. Consider the Ducati 900 SuperSport: the early 1990s version is a classic beauty;…
Read more »Jay LaRossa is one of those guys who was probably born with copper grease under his fingernails. His parents ran motorcycle dealerships,…
Read more »The Ducati 900 SS is one of the great bargains in the motorcycling world. And not because it’s a bad bike. On…
Read more »There are purists who baulk at the thought of changing even one bolt on a classic motorcycle—and then there’s folks like us.…
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