Ducati defied the critics when it reinvented the V-twin in 1986. Its clean- sheet design launched a Superbike legend lasting more than three decades
WORDS HAMISH COOPER
PHOTOGRAPHY PHIL AYNSLEY
The email I sent to my friend had no word content. It only had a subject heading that succinctly stated: “My new toy, I’m in love again.”
You don’t go GP racing to respect your rivals … you go there to beat the hell out of them, surely?
The world’s first 24-hour proddie race was not for the faint-hearted