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Ducati 1199 Panigale Official Details – Great New Features

By | November 8, 2011 | Ducati, Sportbikes, What's New |

Supreme performance, superlative technology, magnetic personality, enthralling design: on track or on road, there’s nothing to beat the 1199 Panigale. This model is equipped with Marzocchi’s new 50mm lightweight aluminium front forks and Sachs rear suspension unit.

Ducati 1199 Features - Panigale Features

This version is also equipped with DTC, DQS, EBC and Power Mode combined into the Ducati Riding Modes. The 1199 Panigale is available in standard configuration with optional ABS*.

This new model breaks with Ducati’s Superbike tradition by adding a name to its 1199cc engine capacity, making a significant association to their historic roots in the Borgo Panigale area of Bologna. In an Italian territory known as “Motor Valley” and where high performance and racing runs through the veins of its passionate people, Ducati’s now underline our pride in being world ambassadors for the “Made in Italy” title and immortalize our birthplace in the name of the new Superbike.

2012 Ducati 1199 Panigale Superbike Features;-

The most extreme benchmark
Ducati’s Designers and Engineers were given a “blank canvas” to reach the apparently impossible 1199 Panigale targets of 10kg less weight and 25hp more power. Every detail, every dimension and every design decision has been driven entirely by a zero-compromise brief to create the highest performance Ducati Superbike of all time.

Monocoque technology
Monocoque technology was the fundamental starting point for achieving the twin objectives of reduced weight and increased power. By integrating the activities of the individual components there was a reduction in the overall number of components and their weight. The end result is a reduction in bike weight of 10 kg compared to the 1198. The 1199 Panigale has achieved an incredible benchmark for the sector: dry weight of only 164 kg.

Weight distribution and eronomics
The weight distribution of the 1199 Panigale without rider is 52% at the front and 48% at the rear (vs 1198’s 50/50) which becomes an optimal 50/50 with the rider getting on, ensuring maximum stability and agility of the bike.

Innovative suspension
The 1199 Panigale S and Tricolore are fully equipped with front and rear Ducati Electronic Suspension (DES) system by Öhlins.
Both the 43mm Öhlins NIX30 forks and the Öhlins TTX36 rear unit are electronically adjustable in compression and rebound, while spring pre-load is manual.

New generation brakes and ABS
The 1199 Panigale is equipped with Brembo’s Monobloc M50 callipers, so called to celebrate the 50˚ anniversary of the Italian company, Brembo.
With an extremely compact design, that ensure a 0.5kg total weight saving, and machined from a single piece of alloy, the M50 callipers achieve a higher rigidity and resistance to distortion during extreme braking.

New wheel and tyre designs
The 1199 Panigale S and 1199 Panigale S Tricolore are equipped with stylishly designed, triple 3-spoke, forged and machined wheels by Marchesini.
Finished in black with signature red pin-striping, the super lightweight wheels represent a 0.4kg (0.88lb) weight-saving over previous components.

LED lights
The horizontal twin headlamps have become more integrated with the frontal intake ducts and create a true “race face” for the new Superbike. While the 1199 Panigale illuminates with LED positioning lights and main light bulbs, the 1199 Panigale S and Tricolore boast full LED positioning and lighting solutions, for the first time in the motorcycle world.

Twin rear lights are moulded perfectly around the recessed seat air ducts and illuminate with an attractive light-guide surround effect, enhanced with LED brake lights. Front LED indicators are integrated into the mirror bodies and rear indicators, which are also LED* (*Country specific), are styled with clear lenses.

Thin Film Transistor screen (TFT)
The 1198 Panigale instrumentation takes Thin Film Transistor (TFT) screen to the next step with a stunning race-derived unit that embraces the very latest information display technology.The full colour display automatically changes its layout according to the Riding Mode selected in order to provide optimum clarity of information appropriate to the motorcycle’s environment, even reversing its character and background colours in low-light conditions.

Ducati Riding Modes
Each Riding Mode is pre-programmed to instantly change the engine’s Power Mode and the suspension set-up in addition to ABS, DTC and EBC levels – even while riding. The modes are made possible by combining a number of class-leading technologies.

Bike pics courtesy: ducati.com

2012 Ducati 1199 Panigale First Look

By | November 8, 2011 | Ducati, Sportbikes, Upcomings, What's New |

Ducati has officially launched  – The 2012 Ducati superbike will be available in three versions – 1199 Panigale, 1199 Panigale S and 1199 Panigale S Tricolore.  The event held in Milan on the eve of the Milan EICMA show was also used to unveil the 2012 range.

2012 Ducati 1199 Panigale First Look Picture

The World has got a new contender in the superbike horsepower wars. Ducati broke wraps on its 2012 1199 Panigale Superbike in a press conference .  Ducati’s new superbike is said to be the new benchmark in production motorcycle power-to-weight and torque-to-weight ratios. If its peak output numbers, claimed to be 195 hp @10,750 rpm and 98.1 lb-ft torque @ 9000 rpm, ring true, it would better the reigning horsepower champion, the BWW S1000RR, which topped our 2011 Superbike Smackdown at a real-world 183.37 hp @ 13,100 rpm.

The new Superquadro engine is claimed to be most powerful twin-cylinder in production. The Superquadro is named after its highly oversquare 112 X 60.8mm L-Twin. Besides its standard L-configuration and Desmodromic valve control system, Ducati started with a clean slate for the powerplant. Ducati rotated the top end of the signature 90-degree L backwards around the crankshaft which gives six-degrees more clearance on the front wheel and allowed the front-to-rear bias to be skewed slightly to a 52% front bias. It also perfectly positioned the cylinder head attachments with the monocoque frame.

The primary-drive and clutch casings, sump and cam covers are cast in magnesium alloy for weight savings. The crankcases use a shell main bearing for the crankshaft, a feature reserved for the Desmosedici RR engine up till now, while the top of the crankcase apertures have separate nikasil-coated aluminum wet-liners. Its inlet valves have been switched to titanium from steel and the diameters of both inlet and exhaust valves have increased, bumping up intake from 43.5 to 46.8mm while the exhausts are now 38.2mm, up from its previous 34.5mm measurement.

The original belt-drive of the Desmodromic system has been replaced by a combined chain and gear-drive arrangement in order to control such large valves.

Ergos have been changed up on the 1199 Panigale thanks to a shorter reach to the handlebars which now sit up higher and out farther. Its longer swingarm has extended its wheelbase too.

Ergos have been changed up on the 1199 Panigale thanks to a shorter reach to the handlebars which now sit up higher and out farther. A longer swingarm extends the wheelbase. The transmission on the 1199 Panigale has been reworked, with bigger, stronger gears to go along with its wet, oil-bath clutch, similar to ones used on the Multistrada and Diavel. The clutch has a slipper function where its self-servo mechanism compresses the friction plates under engine drive.

With the Ducati 1199 Panigale S, owners get the aforementioned electronically adjusted Ohlins suspension system with a 43mm NIX30 fork and TTX36 rear shock. The “S” package also gets different 3-spoke Marchesini wheels and comes with an “Aero kit,” consisting of two lateral attachments for the top section of the fairing which have been designed to further enhance aerodynamic penetration and reduce its drag coefficient.

2012 New Ducati Superbike 1199 To Be Launched

By | August 24, 2011 | Ducati, Sportbikes, Upcomings, What's New |

Ever since we heard about the new 2012 Ducati Superbike, we’ve been marking the days until we could see the v-twin sex machine in the flesh.

2012 New Ducati Superbike 1199 To Be Launched

There’s no denying that the specs being banded about on the new Superquadrata motor are impressive, as the new bike is expected to make up to 20hp more than the current Superbike 1198 (though peak performance numbers only tell one side of the story). Also intriguing is the MotoGP-derived stressed-airbox chassis arrangement, which finally does away with the iconic trellis chassis, though has caused some problems for Valentino Rossi on his move to Ducati Corse.

DUCATI’S 2012 superbike can’t really be described as ‘secret’ any more having already graced the front pages of bike magazines worldwide in various states of camouflage. But it’s still looking like it will be the most interesting new model to be launched later this year and the latest shots reveal a few more details.

Just last month we got our first look at the new Superbike prototype, as Ducati leaked first a Supersport spec version of what many think will be called the Ducati Superbike 1199. An encore to that moment, the street version of the v-twin superbike leaked just days later. While many of us will have to use our imagination on what Ducati’s latest creation will look like, we’re lucky that Luca Bar Design (website here: bar-design.net) can take those thoughts and put them to paper, err…pixels. Rendering the 2012 Ducati Superbike 1199 from what information that is available, this is perhaps one of the best glimpses as to what the Bologna Bullet will look like. Two more renders after the jump.

Reports about the bike’s performance – invariably from slightly biased sources, since only factory-employed riders have actually experienced it so far – claim the 1199 is a massive step forward. And given Ducati’s recent record with the Multistrada and Diavel, it’s hard to discount the idea the firm might have come up with something very special indeed.

The only question mark now seems to hang over the bike’s frame, believed to be an aluminium version of the ‘stressed airbox’ used on the firm’s Desmosedici racer. The Desmo’s carbon fibre version of the design is increasingly coming under scrutiny as the possible culprit for Rossi’s lacklustre performances this year. However, witnesses of the 1199 prototypes’ runs at Mugello suggest it’s not suffering many problems at the moment.