The Ducati 1098 Superbike
The 1098 strikes you with its purposeful, no-nonsense
attitude.
Performance is first and foremost in every detail.
Trademark Ducati features like the high tail section and compact
front-end meld with twin under-seat silencers and single-sided swingarm
to express its aerodynamics and agility. Add the new Testastretta
Evoluzione engine at the heart of the machine and you get an all-out
performance Ducati Superbike that seems to be moving fast, even when at
rest.
a number of ‘firsts’ for Ducati and production sport bike design.
The 1098 is the first production motorcycle to have
the amazing stopping power of Brembo Monobloc brakes , the first to have
a data acquisition system integrated as standard equipment and the
first to use an ingenious construction method for its weight-saving
single-sided swingarm . More ‘firsts’ for a road-going Ducati include
the direct application of MotoGP technology, like the power producing
GP6-derived elliptical throttle bodies and the use of the
information-rich instrumentation originally developed for the new
Desmosedici GP7.
The 1098 has the soul of a race bike, pure and simple.
The riding position encourages the rider to mould to the sleek lines of the tank and seat: man and machine are made one. It transmits the quality and character of contact between road surface and tyre, it signals the way the chassis will react next and responds instinctively to rider commands.