999: First official pictures

Get hold of today’s MCN and you’ll get your best look yet at the first official pictures of Ducati’s new superbike, the 999. And later today on motorcyclenews.com, we’ll bring you our world exclusive first impressions on what the bike is like to ride.

For the full-size versions of the pictures you see here, you’ll need a copy of the paper.

We’re currently testing the 999 in Italy (and yes, it does look even better in the flesh) and will be bringing you a full, 9-page report on how well the bike lives up to the hype in next week’s issue (out on July 24). But we’ll be whetting your appetite with those exclusive first impressions on this site only, this afternoon.

Buy today’s MCN and you’ll also get 16-pages bringing the British GP to life, our unique buying guide to the GSX-R1000, a first test on the Suzuki GS1200SS and a group test pitching the Varadero, V-Strom, R1150GS and Tiger against one another.

Then of course there’s all the action from Laguna Seca WSB and an interview with the man who brought the GATSO to the UK, and who really wishes he hadn’t…

And thousands of brilliant biking bargains to buy. Don’t miss it.