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[Gaz 748]

We need a mole, someone Italian, who likes Ducatis and can distract the male workers

[jeff st4s]

Originally Posted by Gaz 748

We need a mole, someone Italian, who likes Ducatis and can distract the male workers

You've lost any chance of getting her to come round and help now matey boy!

[Gaz 748]

[Rod]

Originally Posted by crust

As has been said above you're kidding yourself if you think those pictures mean anything.

I spent a while living in Germany and used to ride Hondas with Kawasaki fairings and wheels on them.

They used to arrive like that from Japan.

As the launch time got nearer various styles of seat/tank would be tried.

The finished results did not look much like anything we tested in the pre-launch stages.

Crust

Well coming from one who has tested bikes Crust, I would tend to agree with you, since you have first hand experience of the lengths bike manufacturers go to inorder to fool our image hungry minds. In spite of this and in the meantime, we can but speculate which is about the only thing available at present. Apparently the bike is being tested at Nardo ring in Italy this week, so maybe some enterprising soul will find a camera with a resolution better than a box brownie this time and loose off a few shots. Then again!

[Rod]

Originally Posted by Herb

It is not unusual for manufacturers to ride, drive or leave their prototype vehicles where they will be seen or photographed. They want the publicity after all and often the leaking of photographs is carefully choreographed. I have even known them feign anger and vow to find the leak when they have orchestrated it themselves.

I know in the car industry they are often in cahoots with the press who get the 'scoop' and in return they get publicity.

There is probably a lot of truth in that Herb. Only thing that really annoys me is that these images will end up in MCN and they willl take all the credit for them as their own "scoop", since they are so far behind the ball game. Makes you wonder if they ever read these forums. Most of what they print is utter tripe anyway. Even their photoshop lash ups are refuted by Ducati as mere fantasy. They fail to understand that most people who keep their nose to the ground actually know better, which simply makes them appear even more idiotic than they already are.

[749er]

Originally Posted by jeff st4s

You've lost any chance of getting her to come round and help now matey boy!

I thought he was putting himself forward, you know, in his tight rubbers

[Jools]

I'm quite prepared to be patient.

We'll see it all in detail at the Milan show in a few weeks. No need to peer at fuzzy spy shots, no need for any conjecture.