It’s been an excellent 12 months for Ducati. Amidst a number of quarters of report new bike gross sales, and allegedly aftersales components gross sales doing much more than that, the pure Italian moto firm has lastly unveiled its new race bike. Last October the corporate introduced it will be taking up as the only real provider of bikes to the all-electric MotoE racing sequence, and right here in April of 2022 the bike has lastly been unveiled forward of hitting the observe in anger subsequent season. Here it’s, the Ducati V21L.
Ducati doesn’t presently, nor does it have any formal plans to, provide an electrical avenue bike. Here’s hoping that the BEV race bike will beget a sequence of avenue and track-focused machines from Borgo Panigale.
Apparently the bike has been testing since not less than December, however right here’s the primary public view of the brand new machine. Ducati had some photographers readily available as manufacturing facility riders Michele Pirro and Alex de Angelis carried out some observe assessments. The outcomes of the check are intently guarded secrets and techniques, however fortunately the corporate launched some pictures and video of the day, so it will need to have been not less than mildly profitable. Surely extra work can be achieved earlier than the racing begins subsequent season, however it’s in all probability largely setup and electronics from right here on in
Just take heed to how cool that machine sounds at full chat. If you’ve ever ridden an electrical bike that the gear and motor whine of an EV bike is really distinctive. I personally love the sound of my Harley LiveWire once I actually romp the throttle. It’s a visceral harpy scream that actually will get my blood as much as temp.
For comparability, right here’s the outgoing bike on observe. Italian agency Energica has been supplying race bikes for MotoE since its inception a couple of years in the past, however clearly doesn’t have the identify or cache that Ducati does amongst moto fanatics. You inform me, is the sound higher with the Energica or the Duc?