OFFICIAL 1098 Pics - Ducati.ms

Harry · Oct 21st, 2006, 4:31 am

Taken from the Presidents blog on Ducati.com, sorry it's a bit of a tease.

Regards,

Harry.

MB4duc · Oct 21st, 2006, 4:39 am

Did you say ''a bit of a tease''... Man, my heart jumped when I saw your post and in the 5 micro seconds it took me to click the post a gazillion thoughts went through my head... And then find a teaser ;-) A good teaser though! If the bike will come with that break set up I think that we can put to shame all speculations about degraded part quality as a result of the more aggressive retail prices!

Man, Ducati are playing their cards well on the marketing strategy of the 1098... Such a hype they have generated and it has cost them - nada!

Maximus-Speedicus · Oct 21st, 2006, 4:44 am

Great.... so we will be back to people coming up to us with " Hey mate.. one of your headlights is out... better get that fixed!! "
Is that bike 2 up?? Perhaps the rider has Duck Disease with his splayed out left foot.

It does have a Dici looking nose though.

Mal

spalding12 · Oct 21st, 2006, 4:46 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by MB4duc

If the bike will come with that break set up I think that we can put to shame all speculations about degraded part quality as a result of the more aggressive retail prices!

yes....
but, you might have to buy that "S" version for 20K to get THOSE brakes...
i bet that the 15K "normal" version doesn't have them

i hope i'm wrong

MB4duc · Oct 21st, 2006, 4:51 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by spalding12

yes....
but, you might have to buy that "S" version for 20K to get THOSE brakes...
i bet that the 15K "normal" version doesn't have them

i hope i'm wrong

I think your're right that it's the ''S'' version. The blurred picture of the rotor with the bike in the background also show what looks like Öhlin forks and that can't be the base model... Or can it? ;-)

Harry · Oct 21st, 2006, 4:52 am

According to the Presidents blog (although it is not translated into English yet) I think he says that performance was the first priority with the 1098 and the brakes fitted to it are directly from the motogp bike with 330mm rotor and motogp calipers.

Regards,

Harry.

MB4duc · Oct 21st, 2006, 4:59 am

Thanks Harry! Very, very interesting news..! Does it say if all 1098 models will have these top quality parts or are they exclusive on the ''S'' and/or ''R'' models?

spalding12 · Oct 21st, 2006, 5:02 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harry

According to the Presidents blog (although it is not translated into English yet) I think he says that performance was the first priority with the 1098 and the brakes fitted to it are directly from the motogp bike with 330mm rotor and motogp calipers.

Regards,

Harry.

great news....
but, there are PLENTY of sub-18K bikes on the market with the very same brakes....
which is good news FOR ALL OF US, of course

spalding12 · Oct 21st, 2006, 5:04 am

my question now have to do with the 1188 superbike to be release later NEXT year.

now that world superbike will allow <1,200cc bikes.... the 1098 will be the duc for the masses....
but the 1188 will be the "homologation-mandated" 999R replacement
with the "hand-built" motor, and all the goodies you desire, INCLUDING the 5K 57mm TERMI exhaust....
yes,
the 999R did NOT come with this.... but, the 1188 MUST include it since the 1098 Tri-Colore (25K "top-of-the-line" version will)

i imagine it'll be exactly 1/2 the cost of the 65k desmossedici.... or, about the same US price as the 999R (Xerox edition)

now THAT is the bike for which i have been lusting..... I THINK

Harry · Oct 21st, 2006, 5:08 am

All in Ducati are of these times preda of a phrenetic activity. The new are being prepared motion that will officially be introduced to EICMA to half November.

I have thought to be useful of and to carry with me behind the doors armored of the units of Luciano Negroni and Andrea to you Furnaces.

In the first one the new are mounted motion replacing the temporary members with those defined you that gradually they arrive from the suppliers of all the world. In the second the prototypes come rendered irriconoscibili, heads on road, modified and puttinges definitively to point.

I will not be able makes to see the entire motion you in a photo greater than this (for this I give appointment to you to the Hall of Milan) but I have photographed for you some members of the Superbike new who, today I confirm officially will be introduced to Milan.

In the next few days, while I will participate to the gathering “Ducati Tourism” in Australia, I will publish these photos. I hope you make it appeal to to see in world-wide preview these fantastic particular you and to feel the plan engineers who explain me their characteristics. We begin endured from the refraining system.

In the development of the Superbike new we had in head a fixed nail: “Performance first”. In the area of refrained one indication without misunderstandings given to Andrea Gesi: the Superbike new must have the refrained one more powerful than all the motion of the competition. A objective not easy date the excellence of the refraining systems existing.

The solution has been suggested from Brembo, simple but radical: transferred on the road motion the pliers monoblock that used in the MotoGP from contest.

The result you see it (in nearly definitive version) in the photos: pliers monoblock supplied in exclusive right 2007 light solos to Ducati and discs but from 330 milimeter of diameter.

You add one put to maniacale point and in the judgment of our tester pilots the objective is caught up: the more powerful refrained one of the world is ours.