. It takes something away from the marque in my view. You'll end up with every Tom, Dick and Harry riding around on them and it will take away much of the specialness. [/quote]
I'm sorry to tell you that the rot has already set in as I have one of the above names:;)

Isn't the Desmosedici a V4?


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[Edited on 25-5-2004 by everton]

i've been digging around the F.I.M website the rules for motogp state that all competing bike must be prototypes as soon as they release a road going desmosedici it will cease to be a prototype and will be banned from racing in motogp so if it comes out in 2006 either Ducati won't be in motogp's anymore or they will but with a totally different bike to the Desmosedici or indeed the road going version will be a completely new engine sharing no parts with the current gp bike

They can use the same layout and technology, they are just not allowed to use the same parts - shouldnt be a problem since even the full factory 999 corse engine shares virtually no parts with the road-going testastretta