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Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A (Italian pronunciation:) is an Italian motorcycle manufacturing company headquartered in Bologna, Italy. The company ...
Massimo Tamburini (November 28, 1943 – April 6, 2014) was an Italian motorcycle designer for Cagiva, Ducati, and MV Agusta, and one of the founders of Bimota.Tamburini's designs are iconic in their field, with one critic calling him the "Michelangelo of motorbike design". [1]
By 1954, Ducati Meccanica SpA had increased production to 120 bikes a day. In the 1960s, Ducati earned its place in motorcycling history by producing the fastest 250cc road bike then available, the Mach 1. [4] [5] [6] In 1985, Cagiva bought Ducati and planned to rebadge Ducati motorcycles with the "Cagiva" name. By the time the purchase was ...
Berliner Motor Corporation was the US distributor from the 1950s through the 1980s for several European motorcycle marques, including Ducati, J-Be, [5] Matchless, Moto Guzzi, Norton, Sachs and Zündapp, as well as selling Metzeler tires.
Last year, Ducati sold nearly 60,000 motorcycles globally, the third-best year in company history. Since 2016, Ducati North America CEO Jason Chinnock has been the executive tasked with running ...
Royal Enfield Himalayan Cagiva 900 Gran Canyon Ducati Multistrada 1000 S Ducati Sport 1000 Ducati PaulSmart 1000 LE Ducati Hypermotard Ducati Supermono. Pierre Terblanche is a South African motorcycle designer born on 6 November 1956 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. He started his career in advertising but felt the need to move into the design world.
Fabio Taglioni (right) and Bruno Spaggiari at the 1972 Imola 200. Fabio Taglioni (10 September 1920 – 18 July 2001) was an Italian engineer.. Born in Lugo di Romagna, he was chief designer and technical director of Ducati from 1954 until 1989.
Ducati Scrambler 450cc. The Ducati singles were single cylinder motorcycles, made by Ducati from 1950 to 1974. Chief Engineer Fabio Taglioni developed a desmodromic valve system in these years, a system that opens and closes the valves using the camshaft, without the need for valve springs. This valve system has become a trademark feature of ...