These latest exclusive pictures of Ducati’s new 2010 Multistrada show the Italian firm is going straight after sales of BMW’s R1200GS. The extreme test conducted on a motocross track was spotted by one of MCN’s spy snappers and shows the new 1098-powered Multistrada being endurance tested in Italy. The bike was getting at least six feet of air over some of ...
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- 14 October 2009
MotoGP megastar Valentino Rossi will ride with 10-times TT winner Giacomo Agostini for a full lap of the 37.73-mile Isle of Man mountain circuit on June 6, just before the start of the six-lap Dainese Superbike race at the TT, MCN can exclusively reveal. MCN will be accompanying the MotoGP star to report on every second of his historic first ...
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- 29 April 2009
Suzuki has just officially announced horsepower figures for the long awaited B-King motorcycle – and they did it just minutes ago in Germany. According to the factory brains behind the project, the massive 1340cc muscle-bike is making a claimed 181.5bhp. The information was revealed literally moments ago at the bike’s world press launch in Dresden, East Germany, shortly before Suzuki admitted ...
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- First rides & tests
- 31 July 2007
At 9am Monday morning we’ll bring you the world’s first video and pictures of the most exciting sports bike we’ve seen since the Ducati 1098. Sadly we can’t say what it is yet as we’re under a strict legal agreement to bring it to you on Monday morning, but rest assured we’ll bring you first look at the most exciting ...
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- 06 July 2007
MCN Editor Marc Potter has just stepped off the brand-new Ducati 1098S at the Kyalami track in South Africa. He has already spent the morning on the standard 1098 and has now got to grips with the higher power bike with a full Termignoni exhaust system and uprated ECU. The S also has Ohlins latest forks and shock fitted. He ...
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- 01 December 2006
MCN Editor Marc Potter has just stepped off the brand-new Ducati 1098 after the first session of the track launch at Kyalami in South Africa. The twisting, technical track has huge climbs and some seriously fast corners and is a enormous test of a bike. Bikes do lose around 20 per cent of their power because the track is ...
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- 01 December 2006
