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14Jan/110

Ducati Corse has released the first pictures of Valentino Rossi

Ducati Corse has released the first pictures of Valentino Rossi in their colours, posing with his Desmosedici GP11 bike at their annual pre-season 'Wroom' event. Rossi has retained the flouroscent green colour on his leathers but its a fashion calamity combined with Ducati's red. And his Bike has it too! The figure '46' on the nose is of course flouro-green along with the seat border, tank and the tail piece.

Nicky Hayden meanwhile has matching the red with black this year. The AMG logo is also present on both Rossi and Nicky hayden's bike and leathers. The bright livery of Rossi's motorbike is a reminisce of his wild paintjobs during the 125cc and 250cc days with Aprilia. Hope he rides so too.

13Jan/110

Ducati’s new Facility to be set in Thailand

Ducati, the ever faultless name in the sports bike segment is all prepared with its new manufacturing facility in Thailand. As per latest information received, it is known that the Bologna Bullets for Southeast Asian countries are to be developed at this new facility set by Ducati. absolutely the union workforce of the company is a bit worried taking their job being shipped overseas. The company has already made it clear that the new factory established in Thailand is to produce motor bikes for the rising economies like that of India, China and other South East Asian countries.

The basic cause behind the famous company to set up this new facility is to compete with existing manufacturers like those of Honda, Yamaha, KTM, Harley Davidson and Brembo in a better way. It is also expected of the company to lower down prices for its all efficient and astonishing motor bikes with the setting up of this new facility. The companies these days with a view to increase their tariff with products are running towards setting up assembly plants locally that helps them with the same. Some of the company's ever famous Sports Bikes are Ducati Monster, Ducati Streetfighter, Ducati Superbike and Ducati Sports Classic. Ducati also is to approach the Indian markets soon with its recently designed Ducati Diavel.

13Jan/110

Rossis Ducati Prototype Desmosedici GP11 unveiled

The Ducati prototype which Valentino Rossi will ride in the 2011 MotoGP season was officially presented on Wednesday, with the Italian’s own individual touch added. The team’s technical chief Filippo Preziosi hinted that Ducati had significant progress plans for the new motorcycle, and said it should address the issues that prevented a title challenge in 2010. Valentino Rossi’s inauguration as an official Ducati rider took a further step at Madonna di Campiglio on Wednesday, along with team partner Nicky Hayden he was on hand to unveil the Desmosedici GP11 that both with ride in the 2011 MotoGP World Championship. Valentino Rossi spoke for the first time as a Ducati rider at the Wrooom 2011 occasion at Madonna di Campiglio on Tuesday, satisfying the demands of both fans and media as he discussed the Desmosedici.

Complete in the individualised fairings that each rider will display this season, Rossi’s machine – personalised by Aldo Drudi – had hints of the Italian’s famous yellow, as the prototype was revealed for the first time. Other popular bikes of Ducati are Ducati Hypermotard 1100, Ducati Monster 1100, Ducati Monster 696, Ducati Streetfighter, and Ducati Monster 1100 S etc. Following his first Test on the Desmosedici in Valencia last November, Rossi had surgical treatment on his shoulder and said: “The big difficulty in Valencia was me. I had a lot of pain in the shoulder and not enough energy. This is a different bike and you have to ride it more sharply. This is my work at Ducati, to improve it and make it an simple and easier bike and have fewer risks in all the races. Stoner was unbelievable in some races last year but made some faults and ended the Championship in fourth no. So far we have been working on easier things such as rider position, handlebars, foot pegs for Sepang, and there we will begin to work on improving the bike.”

 

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