These new Ducati race replicas…

Good for you,Kevin!

 

You guys always get the good shit.

 

Genuinely curious what you mean by ‘dangerous’ and H-D branding.

All I see is both companies’ ability to invoke emotion in a product and turn on the money printer when they do it right… which is most of the time.

 

Thinking KWyman133 might know a bit about this.

 

I’m not contesting anything, I just genuinely want to understand this perception more clearly

 

Some people love to go against the grain and feel 'different', and often times can't understand how people can have a different opinion than theirs. You see this all the time with branding. So many people HATE Apple users, because they see them as 'less than' for enjoying a brand/product they reject. But notice most Apple users are completely indifferent to how people view other competing brands.

Americans in general are hugely this way with trucks. They choose the brand they like for whatever reason, and that's their camp - anyone who chooses a different brand is somehow now as intelligent as they are.

Ducati, and to be fair, LOTS of other Italian brands create products that are unique in some perspective and therefore garner a big following. So while H-D people generally choose HD because of nationality (although now I'd argue HD motorcycles are unique amongst their competitors), lovers of Italian machines generally appreciate beautiful design or the thought that the product was made with emotion or some such thing. Ducati, Ferrari, Lamborghini, MV Agusta, Vespa, Alfa Romeo etc etc all have a long history and a huge and dedicated following because of their unique designs/story. People that don't agree on that beauty pick another camp - Almost all of the japanese manufacturers have garnered a following by people who appreciate precision build quality and reliability. So perhaps people that appreciate that more than pretty design can't imagine someone buying an MV Agusta coffee mug because to them their GSXR1000 doesn't give them any emotional connection, they just enjoy it for what it is mechanically.

That's my theory - and I'm sure I'm wrong.

 

I notice Fiat is conspicuously missing from that list…

Almost as if Fiat is the spaghetti equivalent of AMC.

 

As Jay Leno said: "A Ducati is just a Harley with a college education"

 

I bought a V4S this year. Absolutely love it.

These replicas are neat. But not $63,000 neat. The V4SP and V4Sp2 are neater to me than these for like $20k less.

 

Desmodromics baby!!,until someone puts pneumatic springs in a production bike.

 

We just got so few Fiats here, but to be fair, I rented a 500 years ago while my wife and I were playing in the Greek islands and it was amazing. Perfectly little car with the 'center softop' thing. Loved it. The gearbox they call an automatic is truly atrocious though.

 

You don’t know atrocious gearboxes until you’ve driven a smart.

 

https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/ducati-world-champion-replicas-sell-out-within-two-hours/

 

You bastard, I just logged on to post that