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Spoke to a dealer yesterday Cookie and he's sold one already.

That carbon And brushed Ali version is beautiful

Blade wrote:

That looks a lot more than 188 kgs of lump in that pic.!

D6 wrote:Not a great picture with the shadow cast over it, but I prefer the darker wheels (although I prefer the design of the gold ones).

Fwiw I actually prefer the gold ones, but prefer the design of the darker ones.!

Hhahaha, it's good for their to be variety in tastes

Especially because they're both wrong

StMarks wrote:

Blade wrote:

That looks a lot more than 188 kgs of lump in that pic.!

D6 wrote:Not a great picture with the shadow cast over it, but I prefer the darker wheels (although I prefer the design of the gold ones).

Fwiw I actually prefer the gold ones, but prefer the design of the darker ones.!

That one is a Superleggera and is only 166kg wet. The frame is magnesium.

duke63 wrote:...That one is a Superleggera and is only 166kg wet. The frame is magnesium.

WOW.!!

Although, from my memories of science lessons Magnesium burns with a very bright flame.???

Magnesium is commonly used on high end bikes.

The engine cases and rocker covers are all magnesium on the SP2.

Duke when they claim 166kg wet are they including fuel ? So a true kerb / ready to ride weight ?

I have a feeling they are claiming wet as it has coolant and oil in it when other manufacturers quote wet as including fuel which is a good 12 to 14 kg more.

Looks impressive but a little miss leading if my suspicions are correct. Still impressive though as a raid bikr with lights that weighs the same as wsbk factory racer.

StMarks wrote:

duke63 wrote:

StMarks wrote:...That one is a Superleggera and is only 166kg wet. The frame is magnesium.

WOW.!!

Although, from my memories of science lessons Magnesium burns with a very bright flame.???

true it also corrodes very easily but is incredibly light

Termi full system and a custom map at JHP today.

If 213 bhp is genuine that is a mind blowing amount of power.

That could be on a bsb grid and run at the front if it were allowed.

Awsome

Duke what are the 1299 power modes I can't find any info on what the differences between the power modes are.

From memory, I think the power modes are wet, sport and race.

Wet is 120bhp and very soft throttle response. Sport is full bhp but still a softish response and race is full on everything.

This is the link on the Ducati website.

http://www.ducati.co.uk/bikes/superbike ... m/index.do" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Video here explains how it works.


[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJw0pmLDoeM[/video]