Ducati Panigale the Best Super Bike Ever Made

Ducati

Panigale

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Panigale this is a Ducati 1199 panigale 

s so yeah it is just an absolutely 

stunning machine and I hear a lot of 

people talking about Ducati and saying 

they're overpriced they're unreliable 

they're not worth the money and to those 

people I would say you are wrong and 

today I just want to talk a little bit 

about this like in particular along with 

kind of the history of Ducati give you a 

little bit of a background where they 

came from so it's kind of cool the name                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                  Ducati Panigale

                                                                                                                                                 

Ducati is actually named after the 

father who started the company and he 

had three sons and they are the ones 

that basically took over the company 

once he finished but the company started 

out as a radio company so they started 

out making radios technological kind of 

parts and in Bologna Italy in the early 

1900's they kind of started like an 

early Silicon Valley there so very 

technologically advanced and they 

weren't building motorcycles so it 

wasn't until after World War two when 

the Allies were bought actually bombing 

parts of Italy including the Ducati 

factory that they actually stopped 

producing technological parts and 

started producing bicycles that's how it 

started out then they ended up putting a 

motor on one and the rest is pretty much 

history so 

I think it's really cool to know a 

little bit about the Ducati history and 

then obviously they got into making race 

bikes for the street now that they 

entered into competitions and they were 

winning competitions with race bikes 

that were made for the street so it was 

really kind of like a David and Goliath 

story there because they were a very 

small company you know especially if you 

compare them to someone like Honda 

Suzuki the other Japanese manufacturers 

that pump out hundreds of thousands of 

bikes every year even into the millions 

when you're talking about Honda's Ducati 

still doesn't make a lot of bikes when 

you compare it to what they're doing so 

that's why another reason that I think 

they're so special is because they're 

pretty rare you know you don't see a 

paintig ollie every day driving down the 

street yeah you know what I mean and and 

even in the short time that we've had 

this this bike everyone who sees it is 

just like wow that thing is absolutely 

gorgeous 

so yeah a little bit about this model 

this is a Ducati Panigale s 1199 s the S 

stands for lightweight forged wheel so 

these wheels weigh like I think like 

read it's seven pounds each something 

like that and they look absolutely 

gorgeous it also has semi active 

electronically controlled suspensions 

you can see the things running the 

suspension right there and it comes down 

to the rear suspension as well 

right there and obviously has full 

öhlins suspension has an entire 

electronics package this one also comes 

with led full LED lights which is really 

nice that you get on the S model some 

cover carbon fiber parts with the tail 

or the tire hugger and then also around 

the exhaust I'm not sure if that 

standard or not 

and then this one also has a full term 

in yoni titanium exhaust system which 

sounds absolutely savage and we'll start 

it up for you guys in a minute here so 

the bike doesn't actually have a frame 

and that's something that makes the 

bikes really really unique and that's 

what allows them to keep them so small                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

so you can see Christina she's like 5 to 

5 4 115 pounds or something like that 

you can see even she looks pretty good 

on this bike because it's such a small 

bike and the reason they're able to do 

that is because one of the reasons is 

because it doesn't have a frame the 

other reason is because it uses an L 

twin engine so there was a guy who works 

for Ducati who came up with that disc 

engine and the way that it works and 

basically came up with a way for an L 

twin to produce a ridiculous amount of 

power from that engine every iteration 

of their bikes from that day forth had 

used an iteration of that engine which 

is really really rare and most super 

sports are 4 cylinders or the like the 

Triumph Speed triple stuff like that but 

these are L twin which is crazy and it 

makes the bike feel completely different 

than any other bike so when you're 

riding this thing you have torque down 

low you ridiculous amounts of power you 

have power up high it's just it's such a 

blast to ride and yeah I just really 

can't say enough good things about them 

one of the downfalls of this bike it 

does get a little bit warm especially in 

an area right here yeah but you know all 

the leader bikes do so I mean I don't 

think that's something that's really 

like a deal breaker the other thing 

that's really cool 

mono block brake caliper so Ducati was one 

of the I think they were the first 

company to ever put mono block brakes on 

a street bike and what that means is 

the brake caliper was actually forged 

out of a single piece of metal which 

makes them stronger and more powerful 

which is really cool and trust me you 

can tell the difference when you grab 

the brakes on this thing and the other 

thing is that 

single-sided swing arm which is really 

gorgeous and it's 

something that you don't see on a lot of 

bikes 

I think Ducati was one of the first ones 

to do that on a bike and gives it wheel 

like a floating look.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

it really becomes one of the coolest 

parts of like in my opinion okay so let 

me show you guys what the - looks like 

because I think this is something that's 

really cool - Ducati was has always been 

at the forefront of like technology when 

it comes to putting them in in bike so 

the technology that's in this bike isn't 

seen and the - is just incredible so 

whole TFT display it has like everything 

you can possibly ever want on their gear 

indicator mile-per-hour your rpms all 

the different levels of tracks control 

engine braking Ducati quick shifter ABS 

it's really crazy and then the cool 

thing is too is there's rider modes on 

this so if you come back down right now 

it's in sport mode and it shows you all 

of your different settings but then you 

can scroll through - wet mode which D 

Tunes the engine changes the tracks 

control changes it changes the ABS and 

then there's race mode which changes 

except like this gives you full power on 

everything it allows the rear wheel to 

slide it takes out the ABS from the rear 

wheel that's something you want to use 

on the track or when you're being crazy 

on the street and then sport mode is 

what I normally ride it in on a day to 

day basis and it's just really really 

nice how they laid everything out it's 

really easy to go in there and customize

all the different settings if you want 

to do that and they're just they're just 

really special bikes man they're there 

they're like pieces of art even to where 

they put the rear shock like on the side 

of the bike 99% of bikes have their 

shock going up and down right here but 

because of the way they engineered these 

bikes they were able to put the shock on 

the side which does a bunch of different 

things one of which is keep the bike 

really really thin up here and keeps the 

bike thin in general and that's what 

Ducati has always wanted to do is make 

the lightest most powerful motorcycles 

possible and that's what allowed them to 

be so amazing on the track because it's 

so easy for you to just throw this bike 

back and forth this thing is a 195 

horsepower 

and it weighs like 380 390 pounds which 

is like 20 to 30 pounds less than my 

chicks or 600 which only produces 100 

and like 20 horsepower so it's it's

really something special when you ride 

is you can tell that it's just like a 

savage beast and man yeah they're really 

really wonderful motorcycles 

the 

sound of the Ducati doesn't really come 

through on the microphones we do have a 

good mic on this camera so hopefully it 

picks it up but not only does the sound 

come from the exhaust but the sound 

comes from the engine too and it just is 

it's almost too loud like I don't know I 

didn't think I'd ever say that about a 

bike but yeah there you go guys there's 

a little walk around a little bit of 

some history about the company Ducati 

and why I think that they're so special 

and yeah why other people always love 

them anywhere you go with the Ducati 

people absolutely love them they're just 

like oh my god - Ducati 

and I'm yeah there is a reason for that 

so again oh this bike is actually for 

sale so if you're interested check out 

the description below all the 

information will be in there and yeah be 

sure to go over and check out all the 

other videos on this bad boy panigale 

from racing Corvette Racing other 

motorcycles to just standard walk around 

and stuff like that,