Ducati is popping 100, and it is giving itself, and a choose handful of riders the chance to have fun with the model from Borgo Panigale with one thing really particular and one-of-a-kind. Effectively, one-of-500, however tomato-tomato.
Somewhat than a cake or shiny plaque or pretend gold Rolex, Ducati built a motorcycle, as you’d anticipate from a motorbike producer. However this ain’t just a few special-edition Ducati. It is the lightest, most energy, most MotoGP street-legal bike Ducati’s ever constructed. And, actually, it is only a center finger to each different sportbike producer on the market.
That is the Ducati Superleggera V4 Centenario, and it is correctly batshit. Just like the sort of batshit that units your sofa on fireplace, steals your truck, drains your checking account, slaps your momma, calls the IRS on you, after which tries to make up for all that with a pair tacos and a bottle of Jack. I hesitate to even name it a motorbike, and it is extra feral than any bike I’ve ever seen.
Sufficient jabber, let’s speak about why it doubtless should not see public arms and as an alternative be dedicated.
If we’re gonna speak in regards to the Superleggera V4 Centenario, we’ve to begin with the engine. The 1,103cc Desmosedici Stradale R 1100 V4 engine is the centerpiece of the bike, and now encompasses a host of modifications that push horsepower as much as a leather-ripping 228 horsepower sans race exhaust. Whenever you swap that over, which it comes with as an adjunct, energy bumps as much as a silly 247 rampaging Italian ponies.
You already know, when the Panigale V4 first got here out, I wrote an entire diatribe the way it was mainly like Viagra for Playboy, and never as soon as did I feel it wanted extra energy. It was already giving riders that fizzy feeling of their nether areas. I actually cannot think about what this may do, aside from trigger spontaneous climaxes, which could trigger a number of points for one’s leathers.
However the enjoyable would not cease there.
Ducati Superleggera V4 Centenario 4
Ducati Superleggera V4 Centenario 3
Ducati Superleggera V4 Centenario 6
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In keeping with Ducati, “Superleggera bikes are created when Ducati engineers are given complete freedom. No constraints. No compromises. Simply the objective of making the road-legal tremendous sportbike that every one lovers dream of.” That is not hyperbole, both. The entire thing is an absence of compromise, from the wheels and tires, to the swingarm, to the physique, to the chassis, and that wonderful engine.
As you’d anticipate with one thing so closely influenced by Ducati’s MotoGP championship-winning machines, almost the whole lot is carbon fiber. The physique? Carbon fiber. The swingarm? Carbon fiber. The Brembo brakes? You guessed it, carbon ceramic. Hell, even the wheels are made from the stuff. However the one piece of carbon fiber equipment I did not have on my bingo card is the entrance suspension, but, right here we’re.
Ducati says “The suspension additionally units a brand new world first: the Superleggera V4 Centenario is the primary street bike to characteristic the pressurized Öhlins NPX 25/30 Carbon fork with carbon fiber sleeves constituted of unidirectional layers to attain most weight financial savings in comparison with typical manufacturing. The load saving in comparison with the Panigale V4 R is 8%, rising to 10% in comparison with the usual Panigale V4, with a tangible enchancment in path modifications and front-end sensitivity.” So not solely does it save weight, however you get an enchancment in performance. Likewise, the rear Öhlins is totally adjustable.
Ducati Superleggera V4 Centenario 5
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There’s a lot extra to dive into on these components, too, just like the Brembo’s being fitted to a road-legal bike for the primary time ever, how a lot weight Ducati shaved off with all its carbon work (kilos!), and extra, however there’s extra to speak about, too.
MotoGP-derived aerodynamics abound throughout the bike, together with sidepods, and entrance and rear winglets. The whole lot is designed to channel air across the rider, present high-speed stability, and quicker and quicker cornering prowess. The ECU is plucked from Ducati V4 R, however the whole lot’s been tailor-made and altered because of the improve in horsepower, and with the model’s newest and best tuning capabilities. You have bought higher traction management, wheelie management, side-slip management, launch management, and a few hundred different minute and massive modifications all through, all of which you’ll tailor to your using model and desires and desires.
Oh yeah, and the transmission is Ducait’s personal racing gearbox, which options dog-box-like setup, with Impartial being beneath 1st gear as an alternative of between 1st and 2nd. You will by no means not discover impartial once more, and actually, Ducati ought to simply make this normal. There, I stated it! However as with every of those particular version bikes nowadays, you do not simply get the bike. You get the possibility at some actually dope experiences, and a few killer further components, too.
Coming with the Superleggera V4 Centenario is a custom-made wood case, a certificates of authenticity inside a particular field, a motorbike cowl and a mat, front- and rear-paddock stands, and a racetrack racing equipment. That particular equipment contains the aforementioned Akrapovič racing exhaust, DAVC Race Professional software program, a machined aluminum gasoline cap, brake lever guard, battery maintainer, neoprene racing seat, and a devoted decrease fairing, open clutch cowl, swingarm, and alternator cowl protectors. These are all carbon fiber, after all.
Ducati Superleggera V4 Centenario 1
Photograph by: Ducati
Ducati’s racing equipment additionally contains the supplies to take away the headlight, sidestand, license plate, and switch indicators so you possibly can hit the monitor with out challenge.
A choose 26 prospects may even have the possibility for a MotoGP Expertise. What’s that, you ask? In keeping with Ducati, “Twenty-six of its house owners will probably be given entry to the MotoGP Expertise: a day on the monitor, guided by Ducati instructors, to find the Superleggera’s efficiency, culminating in a panoramic finale aboard the DesmosediciGP26. The MotoGP Expertise will happen on July 6-7, instantly following World Ducati Week 2026.”
Moreover, if house owners need, they’ll additionally pay Ducati for a limited-edition helmet, leather-based jacket, and swimsuit, all within the GP26 Rosso Centenario livery. As for that worth, effectively, Ducati’s enjoying coy and hasn’t revealed it. Suffice it to say, it ain’t gonna be low cost. In reality, it could be quiiiiiiiite costly, totalling someplace within the $100,000-$150,000 vary. Although it may very well be extra, too.
However so far as birthday presents go, it is actually one helluva one. Let me experience it, Ducati, although I might have a drycleaner afterward…
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