Editorial Team | December 4, 2009 at 3:13 pm Best of the Lot, Sports Bikes
Ducati Desmosedici RR – 199 mph
It’s hard to believe that Ducati would be so audacious as to build a bike so close to being a racer. Most sports bikes are 800 cc midgets, but not this one. The Ducati patented steel trellis frame holds a V4 – 989 cc engine which is almost identical to its earlier racing feature – the D16GP6. This little devil puts out 200 horsepower (I know!) at 13,800 rpm. It generates a soft pulse timing, according to the company, but there is nothing soft about anything else.