Ducati is a company that loves tradition and one of their long-standing traditions is to build specialty exclusive motorcycles. they've had s models and r models and more recently they've had the Superleggera.
which is Italian for super light. they did it with the v-twin pentangle and now the v4r which was already a pretty exclusive pretty specialty motorcycle that is the homologated 998 cc bike that they built basically for racing. it is of course street legal as is the v4 Superleggera but they use that platform and they have basically enhanced every aspect of the motorcycle. it is lighter it is more powerful and it is definitely more expensive.
let's talk about some numbers so it is a thousand dollars to buy this bike and there are only going to be 500 made so not a lot of them out there. it's supposed to be 35 pounds lighter than the v4r that it's based on and they've accomplished that using a lot of incredible technologies and materials primarily a lot of carbon fiber this bike uses it everywhere. so you've got the ford frame made out of carbon fiber. the subframe and swingarm are made out of carbon fiber. the wheels are carbon fiber. the bodywork is carbon fiber. you get it if they can make it out of carbon fiber.
they did and Ducati is the only company to have a street-legal production. the motorcycle that has a carbon fiber chassis even if the suspension is lighter it's Olins but it is not the electronic Olin suspension. it is the static stuff that is usually preferred for people who are going to the racetrack and it's using a titanium spring in the shock. so literally whatever they could access whatever they could do to make things lighter they did it in stock trim ready to be ridden on public roads. the Superleggera is making 209 horsepower. however, the bike comes with a full race kit that includes a titanium Akrapovic exhaust.
when you install that and you reflash the ECU which Ducati will be happy to do for you, it bumps power to 234 horsepower on this bike the winglets are big and they're supposed to be providing 110 pounds of downforce at 160 miles an hour. so the faster you go the more downforce it creates. so it helps prevent it from wheeling when you're accelerating. it forces the bike against the ground. so you have more stability while you're on the brakes and overall it's simply supposed to make the bike feel more anchored more stable more composed. I have to say that riding it back to back with the v4r, there was a noticeable difference. so laguna Seca has the straightaway turn. one is at the crest of the hill and going to the left and you're at the top of fifth gear close to wide-open throttle and almost every bike is gonna wheely it's gonna wobble, it's gonna be pretty damn terrifying on the r. any of that so that is right there the aerodynamics doing their job. keeping that bike planted. I also felt it leaving turn six going up towards the corkscrew which on the r would wheely and buck and kind of do that classic Ducati pump on the super jarrah, it was stable.
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