Ducati Motorcycles

About Ducati

Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. is an Italian company that designs and manufactures motorcycles. Headquartered in Bologna, Italy, Ducati is owned by Audi through its Italian subsidiary Lamborghini.

In 1926 Antonio Cavalieri Ducati and his three sons, Adriano, Marcello, and Bruno Cavalieri Ducati; founded Societa Scientifica Radio Brevetti Ducati in Bologna to produce vacuum tubes, condensers and other radio components.

At the small Turinese firm SIATA (Societa Italiana per Applicazioni Tecniche Auto-Aviatorie), Aldo Farinelli began developing a small pushrod engine for mounting on bicycles. Barely a month after the official liberation of Italy in 1944, SIATA announced its intention to sell this engine, called the "Cucciolo" (Italian for "puppy"). The first Cucciolos were available alone, to be mounted on standard bicycles, by the buyer; however, businessmen soon bought the little engines in quantity, and offered complete motorized-bicycle units for sale.

So in 1950, in collaboration with SIATA, the Ducati firm finally offered its own Cucciolo-based motorcycle. This first Ducati motorcycle was a 48 cc bike weighing 98 lb (44 kg) with a top speed of 40 mph (64 km/h) had a 15 mm carburetor giving just under 200 mpg-US (1.2 L/100 km; 240 mpg-imp). Ducati soon dropped the Cucciolo name in favor of "55M" and "65TL". The chief designer of most Ducati motorcycles in the 1950s was Fabio Taglioni

In 1952 Ducati introduced 65TS cycle and Cruiser (a four-stroke motor scooter).

In 1953, management split the company into two separate entities, Ducati Meccanica SpA and Ducati Elettronica, in acknowledgment of its diverging motorcycle and electronics product lines.

In the 1960s, Ducati earned its place in motorcycling history by producing the fastest 250 cc road bike then available, the Mach 1.

In the 1970s Ducati began producing large-displacement V-twin motorcycles and in 1973, released a V-twin with the trademarked desmodromic valve design.

In 1973, Ducati commemorated its 1972 win at the Imola 200 with the production model green frame Ducati 750 SuperSport.

In 1993 Monster model appeared, a bike with exposed trellis and engine. It makes about half of all sales.

Ducati is best known for high performance motorcycles characterized by large capacity four-stroke, 90° V-twin engines, featuring a desmodromic valve design. Ducati refers to this configuration as L-twin because one cylinder is vertical while the other is horizontal, making it look like a letter "L". Modern Ducatis remain among the dominant performance motorcycles available today partly because of the desmodromic valve design, which is nearing its 50th year of use.

While most other manufacturers utilize wet clutches (with the spinning parts bathed in oil) Ducati previously used multiplate dry clutches in many of their motorcycles. The dry clutch eliminates the power loss from oil viscosity drag on the engine even though the engagement may not be as smooth as the oil bath versions but the clutch plates can wear more rapidly. Ducati has converted to wet clutches across their current product lines.

Ducati also extensively uses the Trellis Steel Frame configuration, although Ducati's MotoGP project broke with this tradition by introducing a revolutionary carbon fibre frame for the Ducati Desmosedici GP9.

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The Story Behind Ducati's Streetfighter V4 S

The Ducati Streetfighter V4 has always been about more than raw horsepower—the latest Streetfighter V4 S carries over the same upgrades introduced on the Panigale last year, bringing MotoGP-derived technology even closer to everyday riders. When Ryan Adams had a chance to ride the 2025 Ducati Streetfighter V4 S for the first time, he experienced firsthand how Ducati's engineers married electronics with chassis development to give more riders the confidence to approach the outer edges of performance. Check out what Ryan has to say in the video below: Central to these changes is the way the chassis flexes when the bike is leaned over deep into a corner.

2025 Ducati Streetfighter V4 Review – First Ride

Easy, breezy Photos by Alex Photo. I remember the first time I laid eyes on one. Intimidating, titillating, confusing even.

2025 Ducati Streetfighter V4 Review Gallery

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2025 Ducati XDiavel V4 Review – First Ride

Ducati's effort at a cruiser is a confused use of an otherwise enjoyable platform I am flummoxed by this motorcycle. So much so, that it has forced the first complete rewrite of my career. I had submitted a 2,500-word review of the new Ducati XDiavel V4 – full of brilliant observations and clever asides – in time to meet a May 12 deadline.

2025 Ducati XDiavel V4 Review Gallery

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2025 Ducati Streetfighter V2 S Review – First Ride

When siblings grow apart There’s been a lot of contempt toward Ducati downsizing its V2 from the 955cc Superquadro to the 890cc V2 mill. Toss out the desmo valves, add some springs and back the whole thing up with a double-sided swingarm, and voila, a recipe even the most discerning internet troll will be helpless from sinking its teeth into. Sure, we’ve done our fair share of proliferating the old adage of “there’s no replacement for displacement,” but we also understand there are more facets at play than just mo’ cc are mo’ better.

2025 Ducati Streetfighter V2 Review Gallery

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2025 Ducati Panigale V2 S Review — First Ride

Changing the Supersport game Photos by Alex Photo. Retro gaming consoles had it made. If a player sends world-renowned Italian plumber Mario to an untimely demise a few too many times, we hit the reset button.

2025 Ducati Panigale V2 S Review Gallery

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2025 Ducati Multistrada V2 Review – First Ride

Easy like a Spanish morning Photos by Ducati and Alex Photos. It would appear size isn’t everything, and perhaps, there is a replacement for displacement. Ducati downsizing its middleweight Multistrada has us questioning everything we thought we knew in addition to the very phrases we’re all guilty of overusing here on these digital pages.