Comments on: Ducati D-66 Custom Concept by Luca Bar

By: mike

mike — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:38:29 +0000

I’d buy it in a heart beat Luca… Its a beauty for sure, very classy. All those critics are over reacting. I think the engine can be mated to a bike like this, which would help sport rides find the gap between clunky cruisers like HD and sportbikes that don’t offer the comfort for long rides. I see no argument for the “misplaced” power, 100 ci+ motors are put onto bikes all the time and end up producing more noise than usable power. Anyway, “HD-bored” as Luca said is an epidemic resulting in countless customs that are unique in the owners eyes and hard to set apart to many others. We are all faced with our own individuality and the repetitive designs of the motorcycle world have beaten some of us to death. Praise be to you sir for the design and innovation. I think those narrow-minded yet out-spoken bloggers should looker closer at the sales markets and respect the business opportunity represented here more than their own thoughts. The V-Rod is a popular bike and that market has great deviation, which leaves room for deviation. A model of this type would play on the natural human desire to shift from the norm, to be unique. DOWN with the V-Rod!

By: mat 13 zabas

mat 13 zabas — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:16:33 +0000

Luca, let’s build it. i love the tank design and what your goin’ for. This build is completely feasible with a little engineering to bring it onto the real road. There is an enormous category of bike that major manufacturers design to…the performance cruiser. yes it’s not a sport bike. and no, it’s not a pig with a steamroller tire (look up my busted knuckles article in an old street chopper). To all you purists, if every guy out there rode the ultimate race bike (a GP Ducati for those of you that don’t know), then NOBODY would be riding on the street. Or, you would all be riding the ultimate street and track bike (the 1098) trying to kill yourself, or posing with one hand on your thigh going down your local street trying to look like Stoner on a victory lap…and you’d all be bummed that everyone was doing the same thing on the same bike.
I love all bikes for all purposes. I understand there is not ONE bike that will ever cover ALL these purposes. Purpose built. if you don’t understand the purpose of a work truck, a baja racer, a Cadillac, or a sports sedan…well…nevermind. mat 13 zabas

By: Keith L.

Keith L. — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:16:17 +0000

Sorry, at first glance it’s appealing, but going back and forth between cruiser and street sport, I think it’s just shy of one or the other. The Monster was DuC’s answer to that debate. Go full chopper or go street sport. The concept shines in the use of the sport oriented tank/fairing and sport color scheme in a raked packed.

By: Big Robby

Big Robby — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:45:14 +0000

Is it wrong that I need to take a cold shower?

By: Jeff Ritter

Jeff Ritter — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:48:19 +0000

I am a huge fan (not owner, yet) of Ducati’s. I am not a fan by any stretch of the word of Buell’s. Sure, Buell is going the right direction with a modern powerplant but until they surgically remove the cancer off of their business model they will always be on my crap list. Oh, that cancer would be HD incase you were confused. Looking at this Ducati and the Buell, I’d run to the Buell screaming for mercy and ride it away from the abomination that is the D-66 as if the devil himself were chasing me. It looks like a Monster and a V-Rod got it on and that was the deformed and mentally challenged offspring. No thank you!! Now, that buellrod actually does look good, even with the porche, I mean Harley v-rod engine