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 Aug 16 2006, 05:07 AM
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250 Screamer  Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 1-June 06 Member No.: 373 Favourite Track: Philip Island   |
Here is a link that contains some nice photos of a Ducati Desmosedici RR, Ducati's Moto GP bike replica for the road.
This may have been posted before so I apologise, but the site contains some really beautiful up close photos of the bike and includes Sete's and Loris's GP bikes. Apparently the 400 bikes that Ducati will make in a limited run have already been sold to interested buyers. This is as close to expericing a Moto GP bike as it gets, no wonder they sold so quickly. http://www.onewheeldrive.net/index.php?opt...=542&Itemid=126 |
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Aug 16 2006, 08:40 AM
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World Champ Group: Members Posts: 621 Joined: 22-May 06 From: UK Member No.: 355 Favourite Rider: Rossi | Toseland | Haga  |
It has been posted before, but it's still a great looking bike.
londonbikers.com have some nice pictures and closeups: http://londonbikers.com/slideshow.aspx?uid...49-2b543791f42c |
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Aug 16 2006, 03:48 PM
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 MotoGP Rookie Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 25-May 06 Member No.: 363 Favourite Rider: Valentino ROSSI Favourite Track: Assen | Holland  |
I bought it one months ago. My friend is testing the bike in Istanbul Park for see the Ducati performance
 But you must to have a desmosedici 999R if do you wanna buy a RR . I ordered this bike 7 months ago but I taked for one month. Then there isnt a ducati service in here. When bike cause a problem I should take spare parts from Ducati's centre service and It takes a lot of time. Thats the first impression about desmosedici. Thats the 4th Desmosedici in Turkey ( I heard yet, but its just one RR in here ) |
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Aug 16 2006, 04:32 PM
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 2006 Motogpforum Fantasy League Champion Group: Members Posts: 930 Joined: 13-July 05 From: Philadelphia-suburbs Member No.: 64  |
You DO NOT need to own a 999R to purchase a Desmo RR. The 999R owners go to the front of the list.
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Aug 16 2006, 05:26 PM
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MotoGP Rookie Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 25-May 06 Member No.: 363 Favourite Rider: Valentino ROSSI Favourite Track: Assen | Holland |
Yes u're right but They saled their all bikes to 999R Owners ( Im saying what I heard
 )There was a contract. It was writing in contract " You couldnt sale your bike 3 years early. Thats intresting. You have to send your 999R Story . How did you decide to buy. How was the cost etc. etc. It was so boring 
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Aug 17 2006, 11:49 AM
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 Ascendo tuum! Group: Members Posts: 4,110 Joined: 6-December 05 Member No.: 151 Favourite Rider: Troy Bayliss Favourite Track: Autopolis |
So maybe technically you didnt need to be 999R owner to get an RR, but because there was only 400 bikes, and 999R owners get put on the top of the list, the only chance you had to get one was to be 999R owner?
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Aug 17 2006, 02:22 PM
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MotoGP Rookie Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 25-May 06 Member No.: 363 Favourite Rider: Valentino ROSSI Favourite Track: Assen | Holland |
It looks you musnt to have a 999R If you wanna buy a RR. But I heard that, There was only 400 bikes and the all bikes saled the 999R Owners.
You doesnt need a 999R to buy a RR But the all of the list was 999R owners. When I heard that I thinked I should have to order a RR. It was a big chance for me coz being quick was so important. |
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Aug 17 2006, 04:25 PM
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 Loris's fan through and trough Group: Members Posts: 965 Joined: 27-January 06 From: in the stands Member No.: 167 Favourite Rider: Loris Capirossi, Robert Muresan Favourite Track: Mugello and Brno  |
Here some detailed pics with the Desmosedici GP6 bike, engine and more mechanichal parts and some technical details....
Then listen to the Dukes sound...awsome  http://www.ducati.com/racing/06/gp/bike/in...odelName=d16gp6 i know i'm offtopic...but i coudn't resist... -------------------- Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
Pain is temporary, glory…lasts forever! World Champion of Our Hearts: Paul Hunter ( RIP 14.10.1978-9.10.2006) |
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Aug 18 2006, 10:17 PM
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MotoGP Rookie Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 25-May 06 Member No.: 363 Favourite Rider: Valentino ROSSI Favourite Track: Assen | Holland |
Thats GP6 Not RR
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Aug 18 2006, 10:25 PM
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Loris's fan through and trough Group: Members Posts: 965 Joined: 27-January 06 From: in the stands Member No.: 167 Favourite Rider: Loris Capirossi, Robert Muresan Favourite Track: Mugello and Brno |
QUOTE (FanDeVale_Turkish fan @ Aug 18 2006, 11:17 PM)  Thats GP6 Not RR i know... i've mentioned this... -------------------- Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
Pain is temporary, glory…lasts forever! World Champion of Our Hearts: Paul Hunter ( RIP 14.10.1978-9.10.2006) |
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Aug 24 2006, 04:54 PM
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 GP Winner Group: Members Posts: 300 Joined: 19-June 06 Member No.: 401 Favourite Rider: Loris Capirossi Favourite Track: Mugello |
Nice pics there.
You've made me want one even more...thanks for that!! |
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May 18 2008, 01:41 PM
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World Champ Group: Members Posts: 621 Joined: 22-May 06 From: UK Member No.: 355 Favourite Rider: Rossi | Toseland | Haga |
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May 19 2008, 07:08 AM
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Factory Rider Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 23-January 08 Member No.: 1,514 Favourite Rider: current - Stoner Favourite Track: Phillip Island |
On the Ducati web site, they say they have sold 1500 of them
http://www.ducati.com/en/bikes/my2008/Fami...y=DesmosediciRR |
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May 19 2008, 08:11 AM
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May 19 2008, 08:41 PM
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 Factory Rider Group: Members Posts: 232 Joined: 27-September 06 Member No.: 647 Favourite Rider: Haga, Hodgeson, Aaron Yates Favourite Track: Barber, Brands Hatch |
Sorry guys I have not posted in a while. That Desmo RR is a great bike but for my money I would rather purchase a 1098 and spend a couple thousand in improvements and it will go as fast as that RR. A student brought his RR to a school that I instruct at and he let me take him for a few laps with him on the back and a couple solo. While the bike is a great bike with awesome power, I feel that a 1098 with 15 grand in upgrades would be faster and easier to control. Just my two cents.
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May 20 2008, 08:47 AM
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World Champ Group: Members Posts: 621 Joined: 22-May 06 From: UK Member No.: 355 Favourite Rider: Rossi | Toseland | Haga |
It's crazy when you think it's nearly a £40,000 bike:
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May 20 2008, 10:31 AM
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250 Screamer Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 30-June 07 Member No.: 1,181 |
Not the best looking bike, but no doubt a top performer. I would like to see it tested against the jap bikes on a track, just to see the difference in lap times.
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May 20 2008, 12:56 PM
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Factory Rider Group: Members Posts: 232 Joined: 27-September 06 Member No.: 647 Favourite Rider: Haga, Hodgeson, Aaron Yates Favourite Track: Barber, Brands Hatch |
QUOTE (Fred00 @ May 20 2008, 05:31 AM) Not the best looking bike, but no doubt a top performer. I would like to see it tested against the jap bikes on a track, just to see the difference in lap times. The difference in stock form would be huge. The jap bikes have suspensions from the factory that suck shit through a rag. I have honestly taken a stock bike and dropped an enitre second just by putting better fluid in the shock and forks. The jap factories really neglect suspension from the factory because they know that the bare bones suspension would suffice for the average buyer of their bikes and anyone who wants more from the bike will probably put their own stuff on it anyway. So straight out of the box it would be a massive difference. Somewhere between 7 seconds at a place like Qatar (long flowing easy in and easy out of corners) to something like 10 seconds or more at a place like Donnington or Brands (where there is a lot of character and elevation change plus not quite so flowing and the need for bike feel and feedback is paramount). The feeling I got from the Desmo was real good but the power was real difficult to put to the ground. The bike wanted to spin up everywhere, EVEN WITH THE OTHER RIDER ON THE BACK!! So its got an abundance of power its just not that easy to ride. But one could make it much better with a little tweaking. |
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May 20 2008, 03:08 PM
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250 Screamer Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 30-June 07 Member No.: 1,181 |
QUOTE (Eagle088 @ May 20 2008, 01:56 PM) The jap factories really neglect suspension from the factory because they know that the bare bones suspension would suffice for the average buyer of their bikes and anyone who wants more from the bike will probably put their own stuff on it anyway. Then there's of course a limit to what they can fit into the budget. I think it's amazing that you can buy any of the jap liter bikes for around $11k. Those bikes are probably the best bang for your bucks out of all motorcycles out there. But seriously, I would love to see a mag do a track test with the Desmo and some more "normal" sportbikes. |
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May 20 2008, 04:41 PM
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MotoGP Whore Group: Members Posts: 2,305 Joined: 28-May 06 Member No.: 369 Favourite Rider: MotoGP:Rossi WSBK:Xaus and Spies |
Thats great Eagle, you got ride one of these beasts! Ive heard the same about the suspension on the liter bikes (expt the R1 LE few yrs back). You get what you pay for.
From what I've read is that the Desmosedici front forks you could buy from Ohlins for about $20k-25k. Not sure about the shock, but I guess it would cost more than pretty much more than a liter bike. Someone posted a photo of a GXR, Desmosedici, and a Ninja 650r. Say we take all of these bikes bone stock to Laguna Seca. I(with my very limited track exp) get the Duc and Hopper jumps on the Ninja for a one lap race. Who do you think would win? Even if the ducati was dialed by Stoners Team, Hopkins would be holding the 1st place trophy. -------------------- [size="1"] I'm old and I'm not happy. Everything today is improved and I don't like it. I hate it! In my day we didn't have hair dryers. If you wanted to blow dry your hair you stood outside during a hurricane. Your hair was dry but you had a sharp piece of wood driven clear through your skull and that's the way it was and you liked it! You loved it. Whoopee, I'm a human head-kabob. We didn't have Manoxidol and Hair Wings, in my day if your hair started falling out when you were 16 by 19 you were a bald freak. There was nothing you could do about it. Children would spit at you and nobody would mate with you so you couldn't pass on your disgusting baldness genes. You were a public menace, a crome dome by age 20 and that's the way it was and we liked it! We loved it. Hallelujiah look at me, I'm a bald freak oh happy day! Not like today, everybody feeling good about themselves. I hate it! In my day we didn't have these thin laytex condoms. So you could enjoy sexual pleasure. In my day there was only one kind of condom. You took a rabbit skin and wrapped around your privates and tied it off with a bungee cord and you couldn't feel nothing! And half the time you didn't even know your partner was there. And we used the same one over and over again! 'Cause we were ignorant morons! Just a bunch of hairless, head-kabobs standing around with rabbit skins on our dinks and that's the way we liked it! [/size]
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