Most Important Ducati

Discussion in 'Ducati General Discussion' started by Tommaso, Sep 10, 2017.

  1. I am curious to learn from better informed Ducatists than myself which is the most important Ducati for the company.

    I do not mean the best, most beautiful, most iconic, fastest, sold in greater numbers or any other single specific parameter but, the bike that, in a hypothetical distant future, one would cite as the one that best and more aptly embodied the brand.
     
  2. Embodied the brand, it may not have been made yet...

    Most important is the Monster, it saved the brand
     
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  3. Dovi's one.
     
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  4. I apologize if my post offers different interpretations but English it is not my first language...I will try to define my question more accurately.

    I don't mean which Ducati sold the most or saved the company or was most profitable.

    I am curious to find out what bike would come to mind, a 100 years from now, if bikes were to become superseded or extinct (sad future)... and one was to try to explain what the Ducati brand was all about. What bike would be the best example of the brand? The one that better embodied or characterized the name Ducati?
     
    #4 Tommaso, Sep 10, 2017
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  5. The Monster saved the company, but the 916 has to be the icon.
     
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  6. Nah! It has to be the 851/888.
     
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  7. 916 !!
     
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  8. I am a 916 series fan but I do remember how the 851 dominated the Superbike and created the myth. This is why I asked the original question.

    It's like with Lamborghini: there is no doubt that it was the Miura that created the myth, the sprig board for Lamborghini's fame, but others better embody or represent the marque.
     
  9. Mike Hailwood's TT bike.
     
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  10. And that right there is the problem with answering this question - the answer really depends on the generation of the person answering, some could say the 1972 bike, or maybe the Mike Hailwood bike, or the first single with desmo valve actuation, or the D16R, or...
     
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  11. If you are a bike fan of a certain age then the 851 but to be an icon or the most memorable then you have to use a standard. Lots of android phones out there but many are different makes but everyone knows the iphone, think of an Aston Martin and most who will never have owned one will think of the James Bond db5.

    In that same way I feel if you were to ask those who have never had a Ducati, what is the best or most memorable Ducati you can think of, then the 916/748 would be it
     
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  12. 916 biposto. Democratised design and beauty with competative functionality. It won races and sexy people like me own one.

    Its a masterpiece.
     
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  13. It's the 916 for me - so far
     
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  14. This thread needs a poll. @El Toro make it so old bean.
     
  15. My vote: Scot Smart's Imola-winninig bike - without that there would have been no big twin race pedigree
    851/888 - proved the drivebelt L-twin which meant Texas Pacific would fund the 916
    916 - for being very fast and very very pretty
    The MotoGP bike- for racing pedigree
     
  16. Gimme some options cos I cant be bothered to think of anything.
     
  17. erm....


    Monster
    750SS
    900SS
    748
    749
    848
    851/888
    899
    916
    959
    998 for @Tommaso
    999
    1098
    1098R (ffs)
    1198
    1199
    1199SL
    1299
    1299SL
    Desmocedici (race)
    Desmocedici (road)
     
    #17 bootsam, Sep 11, 2017
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  18. no multistrada there. possibly the biggest seller now?
     
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  19. no racebikes?
     
  20. PAUL.SMART?
     
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