2012 Ducati Desmosedici GP12 Specs - Valentino Rossi MotoGP Bike

On march 19th, Ducati MotoGP team has presented the all new 2012 Ducati Desmosedici GP12 bike, and today the new Ducati Desmosedici GP12 specs also has shown at Ducati official site. Today, let see the new Ducati bike design and specs, it has made for Valentino Rossi ride (also for Hayden of course) on MotoGP 2012 season. As we know, a few days ago the 1st MotoGP race has been held, and Rossi not yet showing a fantastic performance so far, even Hayden has give a better race performance than Rossi, is there any problem with 2012 Ducati Desmosedici GP12 motorcycle? or Rossi can't do more with this bike? I don't know why but I thing there is something from with Rossi or Ducati, I hope both of Rossi and Ducati will give more interactive race show and can fight more with Honda also Yamaha in the next race of MotoGP race.  Basically, 2012 Ducati Desmosedici GP12 has been born with a fantastic engine specs and features, this bike powered by 1000cc of engine capacity, Desmodromic DOCH engine, 4-valve/cylinder and produces more than 230hp of maximum power, what about the maximum speed of Desmosedici GP12? well 330 km/h is not bad for MotoGP bikes right? Here is the full specifications of 2012 Ducati Desmosedici GP12.   Ducati Desmosedici GP12 Specs 1000cc, Liquid-cooled, 90 degree V4 four-stroke, Desmodromic DOHC, four valves per cylinder Maximum power : More than 230hp Maximum speed : In excess of 330 km/h (205 mph) Transmission : Ducati Seamless Transmission. Chain final drive Carburation : Indirect Magneti Marelli electronic injection, four throttle bodies with injectors above butterfly valves. Throttles operated by EVO TCF (Throttle Control & Feedback) system Fuel : Shell Racing V-Power Lubrificant : Shell Advance Ultra 4 Ignition : Magneti Marelli Exhaust : Termignoni Final Drive : D.I.D Chain Frame : Aluminum Suspension : Öhlins inverted 48mm fork and Öhlins shock absorber, adjustable for pre-load, compression and rebound damping Tires : Bridgestone 16.5" front and rear Brakes : Brembo, two 320mm carbon front discs with four-piston calipers. Single stainless steel rear disc with two-piston caliper Dry Weight : 157 kg (specs, pics reference visit : ducati.com/racing/motogp/)   New looks  new style, but we always can meet the original Rossi colors, shiny/bright green colors on the front side/number, Desmosedici GP12 also comes with many of colors combination such as Red, White, Black and Green. Well, I hope they will give a real performance in the next race, caused if I have to tell the truth, I haven't satisfied about this team and of course Ducati GP12 bike when the 1st MotoGP race in action, the performance problem between Rossi and Ducati actually can we see in the 2011, but it's looks Ducati and Rossi need more times to handle their problem until today. Good luck for Ducati and teams, and please fight back your rivals in MotoGP. Enjoy.

2012 Ducati Desmosedici GP12 Specs - Valentino Rossi MotoGP Bike

MotoGP riders do it with one or two fingers, while F1 drivers need a whole leg...
  

What goes, must also stop. And we suppose what goes hard must stop harder, if anything. Which is where Brembo come in – their braking systems are responsible for stopping duties on fast machines in various kinds of motorsport, including F1, WRC, World Superbikes andMotoGP. In their May 2012 issue Fast Bikes magazine have taken an in-depth look at Brembo and the high-tech engineering that goes into building some of the best, most advanced braking systems in the world. Especially interesting is a snippet of Fast Bikes’ conversation with Roberto Pellegrini, Retail and Road Performance Motorbike Market Manager, Brembo Racing, where Pellegrini talks about the differences between braking set-ups in F1 and MotoGP. Here are some excerpts from what he had to say:

‘The Brembo calipers used in MotoGP and F1 are actually very similar – the only major difference is that the bikes use four pistons and the cars, six pistons per caliper. Both calipers are constructed from a lithium-aluminium alloy in a one-piece monobloc design, with titanium pistons, and both are radially mounted. I can’t tell you the sizes of the pistons – that’s a secret – but they are pretty similar. The big differences are the pressure and the clamping forces created,’ says Pellegrini.

‘A MotoGP bike can reach maybe 40 Bar, an F1 car can hit 100 Bar of pressure, which is 5,000 kilos of clamping force to generate minus-5 g-force of deceleration! We have seen an F1 disc hit 900 degrees Celsius, MotoGP has no downforce so the braking is far softer and requires more lever feel so there is less chance of this kind of heat being generated,’ says Pellegrini. ‘ The brake fluids are slightly different – in F1 you have to use one with a very high boiling point, with MotoGP you don’t. This is due to the way F1 drivers use their brakes – they are very much on/off, while a MotoGP rider needs feel. We see 90kg of pressure on the F1 brake pedal – F1 drivers need strong legs! MotoGP riders use one or two fingers,’ he adds.

And while they continue to work on improving and fine-tuning their braking systems forMotoGP and F1, Brembo are also thinking about the future of braking on streetbikes. ‘On the road, the main improvement will be with weight saving. We could be ready to make carbon-ceramic brakes for road bikes but the market isn’t ready for them yet,’ says Roberto Lavezzi, Technical Director – Motorcycle Business Unit, Brembo. ‘ The performance isn’t a problem, carbon-ceramic discs at work at low temperatures, it’s a cost issue – the price of a carbon-ceramic brake set-up would be a big issue – it would cost a lot more than a standard disc. The caliper isn’t that different, the cost is in the disc itself but the weight saving is tremendous – about 50% lighter than a conventional disc,’ he adds.

‘In the future, I think we can get maybe 10% more performance using a conventional set-up. At the moment we are looking at how to save weight by thinking of the wheel/brake/caliper as a whole, not separate items – something we can do, as we also own Marchesini. We are testing something – it is not a perimeter brake system, we tested that and it didn’t work very well – but I can’t say exactly what we are testing…,’ says Lavezzi.

Source: Fast Bikes

                

Brembo: MotoGP vs F1, and the future of braking

Triumph of the Vittorio Iannuzzo Suriano

This is not a "first" absolute, but without a doubt an event of absolute impact. How Vittoriano Guareschi in 2008, now at Madonna di Campiglio Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden with a "passenger" exceptional, led the Ducati Desmosedici .. Snow!

Spikes and slick, ski jacket, not the race suit, but a lot of fun and entertainment: these are the elements that made the curious and valuable initiative launched by Ducati.

An original way to celebrate the 22nd edition of the "Wrooom" and to repair the failure to present the new Desmosedici GP12 "of revenge" we will see only 31 in Sepang next January, the first day of testing for the 2012 season ...

Triumph of the Vittorio Iannuzzo Suriano

Six mm for a championship

Tweet When we say that the title was in the thread and we could mean more than that here.

The English Championship Superbikes, BSB, arrived in the last race at Brands Hatch with our famous John Hopkins (Samsung Crescent Racing Suzuki) preceding the Tommy Hill (Swan Yamaha) by just two points in the Rankings. It was clear that the battle between them would be defined by a single parameter: Who will finish ahead of another.

The third classification, Shane Burne (HM Plant Honda) went ahead to an easy victory, leaving the two gladiators of the title to fight in the third and fourth position for each victory. In the second half of the race both cleared the James Ellison (Sorrymate.com Honda) to carry hot duel in the two lower positions of the pedestal.

The wood was abundant and the two continued to battle turn-turn ever, changing places with each other until the second last bend of the track, where the Hill passed for the last time Hopkins and reached the checkered flag with six milliseconds forefront of his opponent. The photo finish shows how great spectacle offered by the two riders in a league that does not resemble anything in the World and especially with the ineffable boredom of the MotoGP usually considered closed even before the first third of each match.

Although he lost the title to this, exciting for the audience too bitter for him, so, this year can be considered quite successful for John Hopkins, who managed to make a resounding comeback after a disastrous four years and while the whole world considered him finished.

Now his name playing too hard to return to MotoGP, as the two wild card appearances with Suzuki this year showed how talented and fast is (when not injured). Has a very strong candidate for the team LCR Honda, so strong that the Lucio Cecchinello not hesitated to declare publicly that the preference by Andrea Dovizioso-as the U.S. accompanied by personal sponsored by Monster. I think it is highly likely if not inevitable, to see him in 2012 to a group of MotoGP.

Six mm for a championship

Interesting motorcycle facts

• The pneumatic tyre was invented by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888 for use on push-bikes. Boyd also invented the word “pneumatic”. 

• Slick tyres offer more grip in the wet than treaded tyres up to the point at which they aquaplane. 

• Modern sports bike tyres don’t contain any natural rubber. 
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• Front tyres disperse water at three times the rate of rear tyres. 
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• When cornering, 75 per cent of a bikes grip comes from the front tyre. 
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• The GS in GSX-R denotes four cylinders with overhead valves. The X means four valves per cylinder and the R is for race replica. 

• Vespa means wasp. 

• Cucciolo (the name of the first Ducati) means puppy. 

• Hayabusa is the name of a Japanese falcon that preys on blackbirds (you gotta larf!). It was also the name of a WW2 Kamikaze fighter plane. 

• Steve McQueen didn’t do the famous 65 ft motorcycle jump in The Great Escape. American Triumph dealer Bud Ekins did it – in one take. 

• The first Honda motorcycles were pushbikes with generator engines for army field telephones bolted on. 

• Kawasaki also makes spaceships. 

• Yamaha makes swimming pools and unmanned helicopters. 

• Ducati once made radios. 

• BMW is the only current major manufacturer to reject the use of telescopic forks on its big bikes. Yet BMW was the first to use and patent them, on the R12 in 1935. 

• Devil, Satan and Lucifer have all been names of motorcycle manufactures. 

• Suzuki went from GP also-rans to world champions in 1962 after works MZ rider Emst Degner defected to the firm with all the company’s technology. 

• Yamaha started making bikes in 1954 but didn’t produce a four-stroke motorcycle until 1970, when the firm built the XS2 650 twin. 

• Harley-Davidson built push-bikes between 1917 and 1923. 

• The Kawasaki motorcycle division was established in 1962 for no other reason than to publicise Kawasaki ’s heavy industries, which was huge but unknown to the general public. 
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• Evel Knievel holds the world record for breaking the most number of bones and surviving. His real name is Robert Craig Knievil. The nickname Evel is said to have been given to him by police when he was jailed alongside William (Awful) Knofel. Knievel used a double in the film Viva Knievil. During his stunt career, Knievil spent a total of three years in hospital. When Knievil came to Britain to jump 13 buses at Wembley in 1975, he refused to drive his Cadillac on the left-hand-side of the road, insisting on driving on the right. 

• The Fonz (aka Henry Winkler) couldn’t actually ride a motorcycle. 

• In the 1970s cop show CHiPs, Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada, who played bike patrolmen Jon and Ponch, were so dissatisfied when their Kawasaki Z1000s were swapped for BMWs that they put the BMW fairings on the Kawasakis and continued to use them. 

• Contrary to popular opinion, the motorcycles used in Easy Rider have not both been lost or destroyed. One of them, which was wrecked during filming, has been restored by Dan Hagerty, who played Grizzly Adams in the TV show of the same name. 

• No one knows what became of the Triumph 6T ridden by Marlon Brando in The Wild One. its worth £500,000. Street Hawk only ran for 13 episodes. 

• Although BMW claims it has been making Boxer twins continually since 1923, production stopped for a few months in 1986 when the company decided its future lay in triples and fours. Customer outrage persuaded the Germans to restart the twin-cylinder engine production lines. 
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• MZ invented two-stroke expansion chambers. 
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• The current owners of Bimota-Lorenzo-Ducati is a direct descendant of the original founder of Ducati. Cagiva is a shortening of the words Castiglioni - the founder - and Varese - the town where the company is based. 
• Triumph also makes golf balls. 

• Magnesium wheels are porous, and allow tyres to deflate if the protective paint is scraped off. The same process occurs with alloy wheels, only much more slowly. 

• Dynos only measure torque and engine speed. Peak power is then calculated using a mathematical equation. 
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• Titanium ore is abundant. The reason its known as an expensive material is because its strength and hardness makes working with it difficult and costly. 
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• Early bike helmets were lined with cork 
• Before becoming famous for bike helmets, ARAI made helmets for building sites. 

• The founder of ARAI, Hirotake Arai was a stunt rider. 

• Princess Anne and George Harrison have both owned custom-painted ARAI helmets. 

• Barry Sheen’s King helmet was Bell Star helmet with a King sticker on it. 

• The term ‘motorcycle’ was first coined by British inventor Edward butler when he built a twin-cylinder tricycle prototype in 1885. 
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• Some poly carbonate helmets are made from melted-down bottle crates. 
• Helmet manufacturer FM also make bottle crates. 
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• British superbike rider Scott Smart is Barry Sheen’s nephew. Smart’s mum 42, Maggie, was the first ever MCN grid girl in 1971. 

• Mike Duff, the Canadian rider who won the Belgian 250cc GP in 1964 and the Dutch 125cc in 1965 is now Michelle Dufff, following a sex change. 

• Castrol Honda makes a special sticky tape that improves airflow over race bikes’ bodywork. Laid across the nose section, it allows the air to slip up and over the helmet and leathers of the rider more smoothly. 

• Under WSB rules, acid is used to check if a component that should be aluminium or steel, say it isn’t in fact titanium. A colour change indicates the presence of exotic lightweight material. 

• The first motorcycle ever was the SH Roper 1869 steam cycle. 

• The first production bike to advertise a top speed of over 100mph was the Brough Superior. 

• The first bike to ever top 200 mph was supercharged 499cc NSU in 1956. It achieved 211.4 mph 
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• The first rider to ever go over 300mph was Don Vesco in 1975, on a 1496cc Yamaha-engined streamliner. 
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• The first production motorcycle was the 1488cc, 2.5hp Hilberand & Wolfmuller Motorrad, made in Germany from 1894-97 

• Super-fit Troy Bayliss has a resting heart rate of 36 bpm, around half the normal rate. During a race, Bayliss’ heart rate rises to 186bpm. 

• Nobody in the 2004 GP, WSB or BSB series has the number one plate on his bike. 

• Honda only started racing to win the TT, in 1959 with the RC142. 

• Jean-Phillipe Ruggia was the first racer to regularly get his elbow down without crashing 
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• When Valentino Rossi was five, his dad Graziano built him a go-cart to discourage him from getting into bikes. 
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• Jim Moodie and Sean Emmett have both worn sanitary towels inside their helmets to stop sweat dripping in their eyes in hot conditions. 
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• Joey Dunlop was once a passenger on a fishing boat that sank on the way to the Isle of Man TT. 

• Brands Hatch started life as a grass track circuit. 

• “See God. Then back off” Kevin Schwantz on his late braking technique. 

• “I did not come here to (make love to) spiders. Rob Phillis , when asked about his ambition of a podium finish. 
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• “You can only piss with the cock you’ve got” Neil Hodgson. 

• “If anyone can go faster on that Aprillia, [Mod edit]" Colin Edwards. 

• The con-rod of a sports bike engine at full chat is enduring alternate compression and tensile forces of 10 tons, 500 times a second. 

• The foot-operated sequential gear change was invented by Velocette’s Harold Willis in 1927. 

• Shoei helmets have been known to withstand bullets 

• The most technically complex production motorcycle ever was the Honda NR750 of 1992, with its oval pistons, eight valves per cylinder and two con rods per piston. 

• When torque in ft/lb. and power in bhp are plotted on the same scale, the curves always cross at 5252rpm. 

• In 10,000 miles, the average four-cylinder bike engine will have done 100,000,000 revs. 

• ****’s angels’ founder Sonny Barger says in his autobiography that he prefers Japanese bikes to Harley Davidson! 

• Gatso speed cameras were invented by dutch rally driver Maurice Gatsonides.

• The front page picture of the first ever MCN shows six tweed-suited gents drinking coffee together. 

• After he saw Honda NR750, Massimo Tamburini tore up his design for the Ducati 916 and copied all the Honda’s main styling cues. 

• Lawrence of Arabia was killed while riding his Brough Superior. 

• Under its own power, Triumph’s rocket III can accelerate 0-60mph at almost exactly the same rate as it would when dropped out of a plane. 

• Honda Super Blackbird riders crash, on average, once every 10 years. 

• One in five ungaraged bikes in inner cities gets stolen. 
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• Insurance companies estimate that up to 25 per cent of bike theft claims are fraudulent. 
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• An average of £50 from every bike insurance premium is spent on settling a relatively small number of very expensive personal injury claims. 

• On average, engineers are the most likely people to crash. Lecturers are the least likely. 

• The first monkey-style bike, the excelsior welbike, was designed to be dropped from planes with paratroopers during world war 2. 

• The highest altitude reached by a land motor vehicle under its own power is 20,065ft by two Chinese Jinlong motorcycles on Mount Everest in May 2002. 

• The world’s smallest motorcyclist, Hungarian circus performer Pityu Toth, is only 2ft 4in tall.

Interesting motorcycle facts

How To Choose The Best Motorcycle Intercom For You

Without a motorcycle intercom, motorcycle riding is a solitary experience. When you're riding alone it's a good way to clear your head or get your thoughts together. But if you've got a passenger, or you're riding with another biker, inevitably you'll want to talk to them. Motorcycle intercom systems that mount in your helmet let you do that. The problem is that there are so many to choose from in such a wide price range. It's hard to decide which one to choose. And given that motorcycle intercoms have to work in an extremely difficult environment, choosing the right one can make the difference between enjoying your new purchase or hating it. This motorcycle intercom review will hopefully make your decision easier. Let's start with a broad overview of the types of motorcycle intercoms available. Acoustic Motorcycle Intercom The most basic form of motorcycle intercom is the acoustic intercom. By acoustic I mean that it doesn't use electronics at all. It just uses hollow tubes that your voice travels through. They're like the old ships where the captain yells down a tube to the engine room to tell them to "give it more steam." These systems have rubber-tipped tubes that insert in your ear the same way an earplug would. There is also a mouthpiece tube for you to talk into and all the tubes connect into a junction box. One of the positives is that there are no batteries or electronics to mess with. That makes them very dependable. However, there is no amplification which means there is no way to adjust the volume or filter out wind noise. So at higher speeds, it will be more difficult to hear. Another problem is that some people find the earplugs uncomfortable in their ears for long periods. Obviously these acoustic intercoms only work for rider-to-passenger and not bike-to-bike. Wired Motorcycle Intercom The next step up is wired intercoms. These systems have wires that run from the rider and passenger into a central control box that houses the electronics and battery. Just like the acoustic intercom, with a wired system you don't have to worry about any external interference like you do with wireless technologies, unless you add a radio handheld communicator for bike-to-bike talking to your system. Some wired units let you plug in an FRS/GMRS radio, which is described in the wireless technology section below. The radio has to have voice activation for it to work. One of the issues some people have is that the wiring can be a little bit of a pain. Every time you and a passenger get on and off the bike you have to remember to unplug the units. Depending on how you have it set up, this could be two or three plugs. Wireless Intercom Technology There are four types of radio technologies used in the U.S. for motorcycle intercoms. They are GMRS, FRS, FM, and Bluetooth. There are also wired intercoms that enable you to plug into a handheld Citizens Band (CB) radio that has voice activation. Frequency Modulation (FM) radio is similar to the FM radio you listen to, but for motorcycle intercoms a narrower frequency is used. Like FM radio, these systems can produce clear sound, as long as the distance between them isn't too great. FM radio works best when there are no obstructions such as hills between the transmitter and receiver. If long range is the most important feature, then GMRS intercoms will provide better performance. The Family Radio Service (FRS) and the General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) are the modern equivalents to the old walkie talkies you may have had when you were a kid. FRS radios typically have a maximum range of two miles with few obstructions in between, while GRMS radios communicate up to several miles. Like FM, these are public frequencies so other people can hear your conversations and vice versa. In some heavily populated areas these FRS/GRMS radios are heavily used, while out on the open road you should have fairly private conversations. One nice thing with the FRS and GMRS radios is that you can go to your local discount store and purchase a cheap handheld radio that will communicate with these units. If someone were following you in a car, or they had a wired motorcycle intercom system that lets them plug in an FRS/GMRS handheld radio, they can communicate with you. The downside of this was just mentioned in that there are millions of these radios out there so in heavily populated areas you'll pick up lots of other transmissions. Bluetooth is the latest technology to hit motorcycle intercoms. Not only can these systems communicate totally wirelessly from rider to passenger, they can be used to communicate from bike to bike. Although with these systems the range is not in miles, it is in hundreds of feet. Since you are likely riding close to your buddies, this is not usually a problem. The Bluetooth range limitation actually works as an advantage since it limits the amount of outside interference you'll get. Also, since you must program two units to work together, you won't pick up conversations from other people with Bluetooth devices...and they won't be able to hear you. If you want Bluetooth wireless communication there is one thing to watch for. Some units that say they are Bluetooth use FRS or GMRS to communicate bike-to-bike and the Bluetooth is just used to communicate with a Bluetooth enabled cell phone or other device. Motorcycle Helmet Intercom Features Here are features to look for as you are shopping for an intercom to use with your motorcycle helmet: If you may be riding in the rain, get a system that says it's waterproof and not just water resistant. Some riders will put a water resistant system in a plastic baggie and that works for them. You can get systems that have a headset speaker for one ear or both ears. Installation and moving the intercom to another helmet is easier for systems with only one ear, but some people want to hear sound in both ears. Most systems have voice activation of some kind to keep the headset quiet when no talking is occurring. This voice activation often has the ability to be disabled and a push-to-talk switch used instead. Many intercoms have noise reduction capabilities with digital signal processing to help reduce the noise they pick up from the microphone. The faster you drive, or the windier it is, the more important this feature is. If you want music, look for a system that has a built-in FM stereo radio tuner or an auxiliary stereo input for a Walkman, MP3, iPod, or satellite radio unit. You can also use this input to receive driving directions from a voice prompted GPS unit. Some systems mount on your helmet, while others have capability to mount on your belt clip or bike. If the system is big and bulky, you may want the ability to mount it on your bike. You can integrate some intercoms with cell phones so you can talk while you ride. They require special cables or you can get motorcycle intercoms that have Bluetooth capability so they connect to your Bluetooth-enabled phone wirelessly. Once you find the right motorcycle intercom for you, it will really make your ride with other people much more enjoyable. You'll wonder how you got along without it. You typically get what you pay for when you buy motorcycle intercoms, but even a bad motorcycle intercom is better than none at all.

How To Choose The Best Motorcycle Intercom For You

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