Ducati Laboratory Fisica in Moto

In the September of 2008 Ducati it has opened to the public the laboratory Physics in Motion, a didactic and experimental run realised in collaboration with the Lyceum Malpighi of Bologna, which lets to all the students of the superior averages include the secrets of the technique and of the motorcycle dynamics.

Inside the laboratory, through the utilisation of some interactive machinery, it is possible to try the concreteness of the physical beginnings studied to school and the connection between these and the design of motion Dukedoms. In the first part of the run confidence seizes itself with the mechanics, taking a motor to pieces, testing the functioning of the shock absorbers, moving a camshaft Desmo. 

In the second zone it goes on to examine the dynamic behaviour of the vehicles, while in the third one here is compared by some fundamental aspects of the guide: the gyroscopic effect of the previous wheel that holds in balance the vehicles to two wheels, the alternate motion of the pistons and the sequence of the bursts in the motor, the difference between couple and power.

Fisica in Moto is a project really educationally and amusingly, that explains in practical and intelligible way what you mean to plan and to build the motion that each day we use to go to the work or to run in footprint. The laboratory is opened from Monday until Friday, the visit và booked on the site of the Foundation Ducati, and he understands also the stopping place inside the chain of assembling.

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KTM RC8R IDM in International German SBK Championship

KTM opens a new chapter of his history in the competitions: next weekend the wonderful one RC8R 1190 factory will run in the competition of opening of the German Championship Superbike (IDM) to Lausitz. The KTM SBK Team Germany will be headed by Konrad Hefele, ex-service man of the competitions on road and championships GP. From 2004 until 2006 it has obtained in fact three consecutive headlines in the class 125cc of the IDM.

The pilots who will defend the colours of the squad orange will be Stefan Nebel, German, three times national sample SBK, and Didier Van Keymeulen, Belgian pilot winner of the cup FIM Superstock 1000 in 2005. The competition of opening of the championship IDM 2009 will comply, for the tithe turned in succession, on the circuit EuroSpeedway Circuit with Lausitz.

Konrad Hefele:“ Stefan Nebel and Didier Van Keymeulen are an ideal couple of pilots: both have experience and are level professionals. The times that they have recorded during the tests are statmi very similar; I am convinced that together will find the motivation and the just stimuli.”

The program KTM in the German Championship Superbike foresees the participation in 8 rendezvous, 16 competitions, in different location inside the German territory, but also about two particular circuits: Salzburg Ring in Austria, close to the factory KTM of Mattighofen and to Assen, in Holland, on the traced out new one GP.

Program of the competitions IDM:
24-26 April, EuroSpeedway Lausitz, Germany
15-17 May, Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Germany
29-21 May, Nürburgring, Germany
19-21 June, Sachsenring, Germany
3-5 July, Salzburgring, Austria
July 31 - August 2, Schleizer Dreieck, Germany
21-23 August, TT Circuit Assen, Holland
11-13 September, Hockenheimring, Germany

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New Derbi GPR 125 and DRD 125 on DerbiLive

New Derbi GPR 125 and DRD 125, some of the most expected models of the gamma Derbi 2009, are about to be thrown on the market. The account to the cuff has begun, but the most impatient can begin to dream looking at the official images published on DerbiLive.

The one who wanted to receive further details in preview, can contact directly the DerbiLiveTeam on the blog booked enrolled garlic of the new community.

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Ducati Monster Art 2009 Color Therapy

Ducati has presented the project Monster Art, an innovative proposal that frees the creativity from the lovers of the red ones of Borgo Panigale. The motion naked par excellence, the Monster, has been an inspiration fountain for the whole sector of two wheels and for all the lovers of the personalization; on the roads of all the world it more than 200.000 models circulate.

This naked is characterised by a long history of successes, by the introduction during the years of different displacements and of numerous changes of colour, but above all by a constant technological evolution that today has led to the birth of the last two versions: the Monster 696 and the Monster 1100, that represent the beginning of a new era.


Monster is always the motion Ducati that more it inspires and stimulates the art of the personalization. Stylists, designer, artists, actors, singers and, above all, simple lovers of all the world have found in this one motion the inspiration fountain to create the own work of art about two wheels.

Really therefore, he has decided to institutionalise Dukedoms a project able to celebrate and to emphasise the great artistic potential of the Monster: Monster ART will let all express the own personality and the own creative vein through different step of transformation and personalization, the first one of which it is the choice of the colour.

Colour Therapy represents the first episode of the project Monster ART; thanks to the revolutionary solution of the interchangeable copriserbatoio, the Monster 696 and the sorellona 1100 can change livery easily. As well as the colours at present in gamma, or white pearl, the red and the dark black, Ducati proposes 10 additional tonality: the Red GP, the Orange Scrambler, Green Tricolour, Yellow Dukedoms, Lilla Glamour, Blue Italy, Blue Mediterranean Sea, Cockscomb Glossy, Quicksilver and Pure Gold.

90 Euro will be able to be chosen all these new colourings to the moment of the purchase of the motion with a suns surcharge compared to the price of list (with exception of the colours Quicksilver and Pure Gold for for which 190 Euro are asked, when tonality was realised with a special technique of painting).

The project Monster ART is operative by April 21 2009: on the site www.monster.ducati.com there has been inserted a special configuratore, through which it is possible to dress the Monster with 13 disposable colours, and to be able to choose so that favourite. As soon as the own colour was individualised it does not remain that to go into Dukedoms Store to see him at the living one and in order that to create so own Monster art.

Oltre Allalla the possibility of choice colour to the moment of the purchase of the motion, Dukedoms there propose also the “kit Monster Art” (composed cover reservoir, previous mudguard, small dome and coprisella) at a suns price 499 Euro (599 Euro for the tonality Quicksilver and Pure Gold) to change the colour of own Monster 696 or 1100, adapting it to the tastes of the moment.

The new colours, thought up and studied to satisfy the demands and the tastes of all the lovers, will have an availability bounded on the time: the project Monster Art plans in fact what the gamma colours is periodically up-to-date, thanks to the proposal of new colourings or graphics, giving free vent to the creativity and to the imagination. For information visited situated Monster art.

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