Celebrating the 60th anniversary of this famous Italian marque, Ian Falloon's authoritative history - updated, expanded and reformatted in full colour - covers every Ducati racing and production motorcycle from the cheap post-war Cucciolo to the 2006 world-beating production Desmosedici.

Table of Contents

Detailed production history, from pre-war miniature cameras to today's world-class motorcycles. Model details, the Texas Pacific buy-out, the influence of key engineers. Racing stars James Toseland, Neil Hodgson and Troy Bayliss. Ducati folk heroes Carl Fogarty, Mike Hailwood and Tony Rutter. Factory World Superbike and MotoGP racing models and all production derivatives. New retro model lines, the Multistrada and the Sport Classics. In 2005, a facelift and more power for the 999, expanded Monster line-up, and launch of the Paul Smart 1000.

About the Author

Author of a number of successful Haynes titles including Ducati Super Sport, Ducati 916 and Ducati Racers, Ian Falloon is a freelance motorcycle journalist and photographer and contributes to magazines in the UK and his native Australia. He has a long association with Ducati motorcycles and owns several models.