The 1098 R is the ultimate Superbike. The most advanced, most powerful twin-cylinder motorcycle ever built, with the highest torque-to-weight ratio in the sport bike category. It is the product of a ...

View post: The Models Keeping the Manual Alive in 2025 Leading the list of electronic goodies is the traction control system, which is enabled with the included track-only ECU tuning. We imagine, ...

Ducati, it seems, is not content with producing a bike which is the closest thing ever to a road-legal grand prix machine, the shatteringly quick Desmosedici RR. Now, the small but enormously ...

February 26, 2008 The Ducati legend continues to grow, and the latest chapter is again inspirational stuff. Ducati debuted its 1098 R Superbike in Qatar at the first round of the World Superbike ...

Cupertino, Ca (4 March 2008) - Hot on the heels of a World Superbike double victory at Phillip Island, the Ducati 1098 R is targeting success in North American showrooms. Since the 1098 R's unveiling ...

The following is Ducati’s official release – their words not ours – it’s all there so … The 1098 is the lightest, fastest stopping, quickest lapping Ducati in history. For the first time Ducati MotoGP ...

Of all the abundances, a surfeit of ‘sink the snag – international rules’ is perhaps the least troubling. It’s a different story with other abundances: like speed cameras (immobile revenue devices), ...

The new 1098 S has achieved the status of the highest performance Ducati street bike ever by reducing weight to the max and adding world-class components to an already record-breaking design. If ...

Ducati has launched the long awaited R version of the 1098 at the World Ducati Week in Misano. The bike is launched following the recent change of World Superbike rules to allow 1200cc twin-cylinder ...

January 28, 2008 – Ducati today announced the 1098 R, claimed to be “the lightest, most powerful twin-cylinder bike ever” with a true competition-level traction control system supplied as standard for ...