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Ducati Sport 1000
Ducati now manufactures
several lines of motorcycles: naked sport
bikes: Ducati Monster, faired sport bikes:
800 and DS1000 Supersports, superbike 749
and 999, adventure-tourer Multistrada 600
and DS1000, tourers ST3s, and retro-replicas
SportClassic.
The chief designer of
Ducati motorcycles since the 1970s was the
late Fabio Taglioni (1920-2001). He introduced
the Pantah in 1979; its engine was updated
in the 1990s in the SuperSport (SS) series.
All modern Ducati engines are derivatives
of the Pantah, which uses a toothed belt to
actuate the engine's valves. In
1993, Miguel Angel Galuzzi introduced the
Ducati Monster[1] , a naked bike with exposed
trellis and engine. Today the Monster accounts
for almost half of the company's worldwide
sales. The Monster, which has been out since
1994, has undergone the most changes of any
motorcycle that Ducati has ever produced.
After more than a decade of manufacturing,
Ducati continues to create innovative changes
to this classic motorcycle.
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