Ducati 916
Massimo Tamburini’s sports bike with a single-sided swingarm and exhausts under the seat – called the most beautiful motorcycle in the world.
Massimo Tamburini designed the 916 at the Cagiva Research Center in San Marino. Every detail was drawn to look made for speed, from the slender nose to the short, high tail.
The bike won the World Superbike Championship many times, among others with Carl Fogarty. It is counted among the most important industrial products of the 1990s and has been shown in art museums.
Materials: Steel trellis frame, plastic fairings, V-twin with desmodromic valves
Manufacture: Made by Ducati in Bologna from 1994 to 1998, then in new versions.
The two slim headlights in the pointed fairing.
The exhaust pipes ending under the seat.
The single-sided swingarm, which leaves the wheel free on one side.
The 916 was unveiled in 1993 and went on sale in 1994.
The 90-degree V-twin has desmodromic valve actuation, in which cams both open and close the valves, and four valves per cylinder. The frame is a trellis of steel tubes, and the rear wheel is mounted on a single-sided swingarm.
Twin slim headlights in a pointed fairing, exhausts under the seat and the rear wheel left free on one side.