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    DUCATI DESMOSEDICI RR

    Oct 13, 2018 5 minutes

    Any fans of roast chestnuts out there? Me neither, especially when they’re your own, cooking slowly on a Desmo’s underseat exhaust. But sometimes there’s a price to be paid, and this was the going rate for blitzing around on a one-time MotoGP machine. Well, as near as dammit. It might seem a long time ago now, but I remember 2006 it like yesterday, watching the vertically challenged Loris Capirossi scrapping it out with his unwieldy Ducati GP6, hoping for some form of submission. It looked a right weapon; a fire breather with an iconic look and an equally iconic soundtrack. What wasn’t there to like about the steel framed wonder that sported the only V4 engine on the Grand Prix grid?

    Clearly I wasn’t the only one to think that way as following a mid-season announcement that the Italian maestros were making a road-going replica

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