You have to be passionate about bikes to spend $140,000 to buy a Ducati 1198RS Superbike and a Ducati 1098R just to use the frame and side and upper fairings to make it street legal, and then take it for a spin on southern California’s famous Mulholland Highway and get caught on camera as you embarassingly bin it.

The bike may be a crying mess, but this guy is lucky as hell, because if something similar happened in Italy, France or Spain with our guillotine style guard rails you’d would be picking up pieces of him instead of the Ducati.

Source | hellforleather.com

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This Ducati 1098R will join other big-name manufacturers including BMW and KTM at the 2010 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. Aprilia is still missing from that list, but by the time everyone gets out on the track, we might not even notice. The 1098R will be ridden by Michael Rutter and you can decide whether you like the paint job or not.

Source | HellForLeather

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The Ducati Village at Donington World Superbike round for June 27 and 28 is your chance to get into the Ducati spirit of things. Saturday night sees an SBK Ducati Party at the “Launch Pad” with live music and special guest appearances from the team including Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio. Tickets for the event are just £12.50.

For the rest of the weekend, Ducati Village will be hosting a display of 2009 model year bikes, including the limited edition Troy Bayliss 1098R, the 1198S and the new Ducati Streetfighter. Vintage Ducati bikes will also be on show.

Weekend or race day tickets are available with special deals on parking, and access to the Ducati grandstand for an additional fee. A visit to the Ducati Village also gets you in the draw to win a 2009 Ducati Corse Bianchi Bicycle. For details and ticket pricing, check out the Ducati UK site.

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Watch as MCN’s test riders take the meanest and fastest of Ducati’s production line, the Ducati D16 and the 1o98 R through their paces at the Almeria test circuit in Spain and find out which one was the winner.

If your going to attend WSBK race at Donington, June 27th and 28th, why not head over to the Ducati Village, located near the new main entrance at Redgate, you’ll be able to see a display of 2009 model year bikes; including the limited edition Troy Bayliss 1098R, the 1198S and the new Ducati Streetfighter.

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To celebrate the Superbike 2008 victory and the renewed partnership with sponsor Puma, Ducati has created a new version of the 1098R called the Puma Edition.

The 1098R Puma Edition has been built in only a series of ten motorcycles to be sold on the Japanese market. It has original colours with a white Puma logo on a red background. Each motorcycle is specially marked with a number on the upper stem of the fork, and is sold at a price of 35,000 euros.

As sales started in December, we can only imagine that the Puma Edition Ducati is no longer available. It would have been interesting to see if in Italy it would have had the same success.

Source | Ducati Japan

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Ducati lover? Got some loose cash stashed under the mattress? How about buying Shane “Shakey”Byrne’s 2008 winning 1098 R British Superbike?

GSE Racing have put one of Byrne’s racebikes up for sale alongside both of Leon Camier’s bikes and a massive spares package.

The three bikes are for sale at £80,000 each. If your interested, you can call GSE at 01283-532543.

Source | bikesportnews

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If your heart is filled with Superbike and Ducati and your budget allows you to buy a real Ducati Superbike, you must know what’s really the difference between the 1098R and Troy’s R version. Troy Bayliss said it’s the best bike he’s ever raced with, the real differences being electronic control of the 200HP. The traction control system enables smooth and consistent power delivery, endless when the throttle is fully open.

For more details of the Ducati 1098R, check out Fasterandfaster.

Source | Fasterandfaster

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The guys over at SuperBike Italia are teasing us again with their work - here’s the trailer of the latest dvd with the 600 Supersport comparison: testing of the lovely Ducati 1098R, and the Aprilia Shiver on the Costa Azzurra.

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