00:00Welcome to Cycleworld, welcome to Bologna. This is the heart of Ducati. Just behind there
00:06is the actual factory where they still produce bikes. But what we're doing today is celebrating
00:12a hundred years of Ducati. And to do that, Ducati have produced 10 liveries of very special bikes.
00:20What we're going to do at Cycleworld is briefly look at all 10, but I'm going to pick out my
00:25top
00:25three. So without any further ado, let's go check out bike number one. I guess for the USA,
00:31we have to start with the iconic Scrambler. 1962, Ducati launched a specific bike just for the USA
00:38market. And it was a 250 single cylinder Scrambler. And that kind of launched Ducati
00:44into the US. And to celebrate that, Ducati have replicated that on their current Scrambler.
00:50So we've got the lovely blue livery. And even blue on the swinging arm. We've got blue on the
00:56foot peg holders. We've got the original coloured on the wheels. We've got the original kind of logo.
01:01And this is going to be available just 100 units with matching helmet and matching jacket.
01:06But what it makes it for me so special is the detail that Ducati have gone to,
01:10because it's the exact original blue. Everything has been done one off. And it's not just a case of
01:16getting blue paint and painting the tank because you're going to have to use a different blue to
01:20match it for the frame. A different blue again for the swinging arm. The one off old school logo.
01:26It's an absolute little beauty. And it just celebrates when Ducati first went to the USA
01:31with that 250 Scrambler that kind of is now written in the history books. But if you think this
01:37is pretty special, let's look at the bike that celebrates the Daytona win. We've already seen
01:43the iconic Scrambler and that kind of launched Ducati in the US market. But Ducati were kind of
01:48synonymous with producing single cylinders. But that kind of all changed in Daytona in 1977.
01:54Cycle magazine editors Cook Nelson and Phil Schilling bought a 1974 Ducati 750 Supersport and made it into
02:02a super bike racer, launching the Italian marks performance reputation in the US. Dubbed the California
02:08Hot Rod and later Old Blue. The bike ridden by Nelson won the 1977 Daytona Superbike race. It is
02:15perhaps the most important Ducati V-twin behind Paul Smart's 1972 Imola 200 winning machine and helped
02:22establish the worldwide performance reputation and certainly cemented Ducati's performance
02:26reputation in the States. And to celebrate that kind of benchmark when Ducati were now known as a race
02:33winning team, we produced the ex-Diavol V4 in this iconic kind of colour scheme that I think looks
02:39really beautiful in the kind of blue and silver. But it's not just a case of just painting a bike
02:45blue and silver. There's some nice little duchess to this, like the bronze on the top here, the bronze
02:49calipers, which is the only time you'll ever find a bronze caliper on any bike. Brembo are not going to
02:55do this on any other motorcycle. Again, we've got matching crash helmet, we've got the matching jacket
02:59to go with the bike and they're going to produce in 100 numbers only. I think it's really beautiful.
03:05It's not something I was expecting, but I think it really works. And again, it's another landmark and
03:10another step in Ducati's history in the USA. We've looked at the iconic Scrambler, which was the first
03:16bike to move Ducati into America. We've looked at the famous Daytona Win in 77 and this is just my
03:23favourite of the collection. This is obviously the Desmond 1972 Paul Smart replica, the bike that won
03:32the famous Imola race, which really put Ducati up there on the top shelf. At the time, MV and Ago
03:39were winning everything and Paul Smart and his team came together at Imola and it was the first time
03:44they kind of beat MV in their home ground. But even if you forget about the history and even if
03:48you forget
03:49about the legend that is Paul Smart, who is a real dear friend and a true gent. The bike just
03:54itself
03:55is absolutely fantastic. To get this paintwork must have been an incredibly difficult job.
04:02They replicated everything from the classic green frame colour to the swinging arm, even the glitter
04:07on the rear stand. They're going to be producing 100 again replicas of this bike and there is a Paul
04:13Smart helmet and a Paul Smart jacket to match. The helmet and jacket are absolutely beautiful.
04:18It's just such an iconic bike. This bike is probably one of the most famous bikes in Ducati's history.
04:24It really put Ducati out there as a race winning brand. Nice little touches like the dry clutch,
04:31we've got the termi pipes and this is the V4S model so we've got the semi-active suspension. I'm
04:36unsure how many of these bikes are actually ever going to be ridden but I'd really hope somebody
04:40somewhere takes this on track and just really enjoys it. It is an absolutely beautiful work of art.
04:47It must have been an incredible difficult job but a really enjoyable task to pick 10 iconic liveries
04:55and to put it on 10 different bikes. There's arguments for should there be a Foggy, a Casey
05:02Stone, a Valentino, an 851, an 888, a Paso. There's so many bikes in Ducati's range over those 100 years.
05:09But I think Ducati have done an amazing job of producing such iconic liveries across the range
05:16of all different models. For each model there's going to be 100 units in very limited numbers that
05:22are going to be available after Mugello MotoGP to some very limited special customers and bikes are
05:29going to be in production around November and we hopefully should start to see a few bikes after
05:35that. It's really difficult to be able to pick my top three but if I had the money and the
05:41wife would
05:42let me then it'd definitely be a smart replica. Hope you've really enjoyed it we're going to throw
05:47in a load of b-roll of these absolute beautiful bikes and all the livery and all the accessories.
05:52What a great way to celebrate a hundred years of Ducati.
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