Ducati Motorcycle News

Photography by Gold & Goose MONTEREY, CA, JULY 11 - The opening session of World Superbike practice at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca was a back and forth affair ith Marco Melandri, Chaz Davies and Sylvain Guintoli taking turns at topping the timesheets.

The Ducati 1199 Panigale is one of the hottest superbikes on the planet. It's also the first to come out with a gutsy, "frameless" design that, frankly, looks very odd when you pull its fairings off.

Ducati is putting the final touches to the official WDW2014 programme and there is so much on the schedule, and such variety, that no participant will have time to think about what comes next.

A 1969 replica of "Captain America," the bike Peter Fonda rode in the film "Easy Rider," is part of the new exhibition "America's Love Affair with the Motorcycle."

Today the company makes everything from lawn mowers to jet planes, but Honda started as a motorcycle company, and founder Soichiro Honda was, first and foremost, a motorcycle enthusiast.

With major manufacturers still dragging their feet on electric performance bikes, it's up to smaller, independent factories to forge the future of battery-powered motorcycles.

It's hard to believe the Ariel Ace cruiser really is a new bike. It's seemingly come out of nowhere, is made by a car firm, and yet it's already better than many established production bikes.

A couple of champions will be honored this weekend at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

When the time comes to build a motorcycle for the next Terminator movie, it should be this one.

Late on May 23, Italian financier Andrea Bonomi phoned executives at his country's two largest banks seeking more than 200 million euros in loans to help him bid for French holiday resort company Club Mediterranee.

If there's a builder entitled to look back on 2013 with a quiet sense of satisfaction, it's John Ryland of Classified Moto .

Late on May 23, Italian financier Andrea Bonomi phoned executives at his country's two largest banks seeking more than 200 million euros in loans to help him bid for French holiday resort company Club Mediterranee.

Wheels24 is giving its readers an opportunity to vote for the 2014 SA Bike of the Year finalists - as it does with the annual Car of the Year competition - through a Wheels24 Readers' Bike of the Year poll .

Since the launch of Ducati's Monster 1200 S earlier this year, we've extensively tested the bike on both the track and the street .

Ten years ago, the Multistrada was the odd man out in the Ducati line-up. For starters, it looked very strange indeed-and was likened by one magazine to a "wet cat with a large forehead."

Spaniard Marc Marquez won a record-equalling eighth straight race on Saturday at the Dutch motorcycle Grand Prix in changing weather conditions, ahead of Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso.

Ten years ago, the Multistrada was the odd man out in the Ducati line-up. For starters, it looked very strange indeed-and was likened by one magazine to a "wet cat with a large forehead."

Ariel's Ace platform, here shown as a black bobber-style cruiser with Hossack-styled front suspension, and as a more conventional naked streetfighter Ariel, makers of the wild Atom sportscar , has just announced the Ace, a fully configurable motorcycle system based around a gorgeous billet frame and the Honda VFR1200 engine.

It's a widely held opinion that contemporary motorcycle design isn't quite what it used to be.

There's nothing quite like the smell of two-stroke oil. Or the sound of a swarm of two-strokes hurtling down the track at full tilt.