Another award for Desmosedici

From Ducati North America

CUPERTINO, CA - Ducati North America has announced that its Desmosedici RR MotoGP replica has been awarded “Best Superbike” for 2008 by Cycle World Magazine. This honour for the bike comes the same week as winning the Robb Report’s “Best of the Best” award for 2008.

Cycle World, the world’s largest motorcycle magazine, publishes its “10 Best” on an annual basis in May, encompassing the 10 major categories of motorcycling. The Superbike category honours the top echelon of Sport Bike technology, a niche the Italian company specializes in. Ducati has now been the fortunate recipient of this award for the past two years, winning it for the 1098 Superbike in 2007, and again this year for the Desmosedici RR, the Bologna manufacturer’s road going evolution of its Grand Prix machine.

“Simply outrageous best describes Ducati’s Desmosedici RR, a modern marvel of moto tech that defies all rules of logic. Sure, this Moto GP refugee represents complete and total overkill for the street, but even more astounding is the fact this bike need not even exist. With no homologation rule within the sport’s premier class, the D16RR provides 200 horses of heart-pounding proof that the storied Italian manufacturer truly is fuelled by passion in its pursuit of performance excellence. We called it “magic in the streets” and “a masterpiece with a warranty.” How could we not consider the world’s first street-legal MotoGP replica to be anything less than the year's best Superbike?” said Cycle World.