Current lineup
Ducati Hypermotard

For the 2008 model year, Ducati lineup is as follows:

Monster

* 695
* 696
* S2R 1000
* S4R Testastretta
* S4R S Testastretta
* S4R S Testastretta Tri-Colore

Multistrada

* 1100
* 1100 S

Ducati 1098 S Tricolore


SportClassic

* GT 1000
* Sport 1000 monoposto
* Sport 1000 biposto
* Sport 1000 S biposto

Superbike

* 848
* 1098

Ducati Desmosedici RR


Other

* Hypermotard
* Desmosedici RR

Engines

* Desmodue: Desmo two valve air cooled, 40° included valve angle, (800SS, Multistrada 620, Monster 620 695 696 803 992)
* Desmodue Double Spark: Desmo two valve , air cooled, 40° included valve angle, (1000DS, Multistrada 1000, 1000S, Monster S2R 1000, SportClassic GT 1000, Sport 1000, 1000S, Hypermotard 1100, 1100S)
* Desmotre Double Spark: Desmo three valve, liquid cooled, 40° included valve angle, (ST3)
* Desmoquattro Testastretta: Desmo four valve, liquid cooled, 25° included valve angle, (999, 749, Monster S4R, S4RS)

Motors introduced for 2007+

* Testastretta Evoluzione: Desmo four valve, liquid cooled, 25° included valve angle, (848/1098)

[edit] Future

The Ducati MotoGP Team has finished the 2007 testing of the Desmosedici GP8 with World Champion Casey Stoner and his new team mate Marco Melandri. The bike will be officially launched in January 2008.

Motorcycle design history
2007 Ducati Monster S4Rs Testastretta


Ducati (in its various incarnations) has produced several styles of motorcycle engines, including varying the number of cylinders, type of valve actuation and fuel delivery. Ducati is best known for its "L-Twin" motor which is the powerplant in the majority of Ducati-marqued motorcycles. Ducati has also manufactured engines with one, two, three or four cylinders; operated by pull rod valves and push rod valves; single, double and triple overhead camshafts; two stroke and even at one stage manufactured a stationary diesel engine, many of which were used as emergency pumps (eg for fire fighting). Currently, Ducati makes no other engines except for its motorcycles.

On current Ducati motors, the valves are actuated by a standard valve cam shaft which is rotated by a timing belt driven by the motor directly. The teeth on the belt keep the camshaft drive pulleys indexed. On older Ducati motors, prior to 1981, drive was by solid shaft that transferred to the camshaft through bevel-cut gears. This method of valve actuation was used on many of Ducati's older single cylinder motorcycles - the shaft tube is visible on the outside of the cylinder.

Ducati is also famous for using the desmodromic valve system championed by engineer and designer Fabio Taglioni though they have also used engines that use valve springs to close their valves. In the early days, Ducati reserved the desmodromic valve heads for its higher performance bikes and its race bikes. These valves do not suffer from valve float at high engine speeds, thus a desmodromic engine is capable of far higher revolutions than a similarly configured engine with traditional spring-valve heads.

In the 1960s and -70s Ducati produced a wide range of small two-stroke bikes, mainly sub-100 cc capacities. Large quantities of some models were exported to the U.S.

Ducati has produced the following engine types:

* Single cylinder,
o bevel actuated, spring valved: 98 cc, 100 cc, 125 cc, 160 cc, 175 cc, 200 cc, 239 cc, 250 cc, 350 cc, 450 cc
o bevel actuated, desmodromic valved: 239 cc, 250 cc, 350 cc and 450 cc
* Two cylinder,
o bevel actuated, spring valved (L-Twin): 750 cc, 860 cc
o bevel actuated, desmo valved (L-Twin): 750 cc, 860 cc
o chain actuated, spring valved (parallel twin): 350 cc, 500 cc (GTL)
o chain actuated, desmo valved (parallel twin): 500 cc (500SD)
o belt actuated, desmo valved (L-Twin): Almost all motors since 1986.
* Four cylinder,
o gear actuated, desmo valved (L-quattro): (Desmosedici)
o bevel actuated, spring valved (L-4): Prototype Apollo, only two made.

[edit] Ducati products other than motorcycles

Ducati Meccanica (as the company was previously known) has its marque on non-motorcycle products as well. In the 1930s and 40s, Ducati manufactured radios, cameras, and electrical products such as a razor. The Ducati Sogno was a half-frame Leica-like camera which is now a very rare collectors' item.

Currently, there are four Ducati companies: Ducati Motor Holding (the subject of this article), Ducati Corse (which runs the Ducati racing program), Ducati Energia, a designer and manufacturer of electrical and electronic components and systems and Ducati Sistemi, a subsidiary of Ducati Energia. All are located in Borgo Panigale in Bologna, Italy.

Ducati Motor Holding often uses electrical components and subsystems from Ducati Energia.

[edit] Racing History
2006 Ducati 999R Xerox
2006 Ducati 999R Xerox
2006 Ducati 999R Xerox
2006 Ducati 999R Xerox

See also: Ducati Corse

[edit] MotoGP

Ducati rejoined Grand Prix motorcycle racing in 2003, after a 30 year absence.[10] Loris Capirossi was on the team from 2003 - 2007, but will join Suzuki for 2008. Marco Melandri will join 2007 World Champion Casey Stoner on the official team for 2008, riding the GP8. On September 23, 2007 Casey Stoner clinched his and Ducati's first Grand Prix World Championship.

When Ducati re-joined MotoGP in 2003, MotoGP had changed its rules to allow four-stroke 990cc engines to race. At the time Ducati was the fastest bike. In 2007, MotoGP reduced the engine size to 800cc, yet Ducati continued to be the fastest bike. Ducati continued that trend in 2007 with a bike that was markedly faster than its rivals as was displayed by Casey Stoner on tracks with long straights.

Ducati also supplies bikes to the Pramac d'Antín which for 2008 has been renamed the Alice Team, who are running the Desmosedici GP8.

For the 2008 MotoGP season, Ducati Marlboro Team will campaign their Desmosedici GP8 with Casey Stoner and Marco Melandri.[11] Capirossi will leave Ducati and ride with Suzuki in 2008.[12]
Year Country Champion Bike
2007 Flag of Australia Australia Casey Stoner Ducati GP7

[edit] Superbike World Championship

For 2008, Ducati will race a homologated version of the 1098R. The FIM, the sanctioning body for the Superbike World Championship, has raised the displacement limit for 2 cylinder engines to 1,200cc.[13] In 2007, Ducati raced their 999F07 which is a homologated racing version of the 999R because maximum displacement for a 2 cylinder engines was limited to 1,000cc.

The company has won twelve rider's world championships since the championship's inception in 1988.