Re: Ducati 1098
Also, consider this. When the first spy shots of the Desmosedici street bike were published, the bike was about 95% of the way it would look competed. The same goes for the 999/749 body bikes. Ducati has never really been known to hide their new bikes. Their prototypes are usually pretty close to the final run to reduce costs as they are not the most financially secure company in the world.
Now I am not saying that this CAN'T be the new bike. I am just saying that don't get too disappointed when it turns out to be someone's track mule with a frankenstein combination of parts.
That being said, the 1098 makes less sense mathematically than an 1188 displacement motor. Alot more tooling changes need to be made to make 1098 than 1188. (This coming from a friend who is a math professor that did a comparison with exsisting bores and strokes to find out what each would take to get versus the current tooling for exsisting engine specs. And his 35 years of math and engineering goes a little beyond what I know.)
Ryan
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