Suzuki to cease SV1000 production (NOT)

[popelli]

What will they replace it with??!!? Will they replace it??!!??

with any luck they will reintroduce the TL1000

[terbang]

I feel saddened, when people refer to beautiful things in life as male... Come on people lets get it right. All beautiful things are female - boats, helicoptors, planes, gliders, starships, computers (hang on I'm starting to sound geeky...) and BIKES.... Please being around korean machines, you may have lost the touch of talking about objects as male and female (no such thing in Korean language) but while you're writing in english, please refer to bike as female objects, which they are....


Ok... that's my ranting for the day...

Nah... better go find more victims.

Yup Motorcycles are like women. they are all different but in their own individual way, awesome to ride.

[James Deuce]

I guess that leaves the aprilia and dukes as the only current twin over 120hp then?

Edit: whew i just found out your wrong, had me worried there for a bit! :spudflip:

http://www.bikez.com/motorcycles/hon..._sp-2_2006.php

http://powersports.honda.com/motorcy...elId=RVT1000R6

The current RSVR will be the last. The 999 will be the last V-Twin superbike from Ducati - unless they win the championship this year, though everything I've read suggests that the limited edition roadgoing Desmosedeici will form the basis of a less exotci rod/WSBK special.

Check the date that the "SP6" was made.

[James Deuce]

Harley still race them in flat track and are still winning

Thanks to making sure the series rules suit them specifically, much the same way that Honda have setup MotoGP to suit them, first with the RC211V, and then with next year's 800cc limit in MotoGP. In the same way that Kenny Roberts ensured that HD would move heaven and earth to get the Japanese chucked out of steel shoe racing, Rossi has given Honda the impetus to get the cc limit changed, oddly enough with the rest of the manufacturers agreement in MotoGP.

[cowpoos]

The current RSVR will be the last. The 999 will be the last V-Twin superbike from Ducati - .

nope....ducati are developing a 1200cc v-twin for there sports bike ranges...and aprillia are keeping the rsv-r in there range as it stands and are developing a V4 engine for a new road bike and for WSB racing...

[James Deuce]

nope....ducati are developing a 1200cc v-twin for there sports bike ranges...and aprillia are keeping the rsv-r in there range as it stands and are developing a V4 engine for a new road bike and for WSB racing...

The 1200 is going to be for the mid-range tourers and multistrada replacement. The 1000DS motor will be in the Sport Classic bikes. The Superbike racer has to be 1000cc or less. Ducati have lost the battle to get the V-twin limit raised to 1200cc in WSBK. It will be a 1000cc V4. Claudio Domenicalli confirmed that "Ducati will continue the tradition of only racing what they sell", which according Alan Cathcart, the interviewer, was a strong hint that a less exotic road going 1000cc V4 than the limited edition Desmosedeici was to form the basis of the WSBK homologation bike - the 999's replacement.

[cowpoos]

The 1200 is going to be for the mid-range tourers and multistrada replacement. The 1000DS motor will be in the Sport Classic bikes. The Superbike racer has to be 1000cc or less. Ducati have lost the battle to get the V-twin limit raised to 1200cc in WSBK. It will be a 1000cc V4. Claudio Domenicalli confirmed that "Ducati will continue the tradition of only racing what they sell", which according Alan Cathcart, the interviewer, was a strong hint that a less exotic road going 1000cc V4 than the limited edition Desmosedeici was to form the basis of the WSBK homologation bike - the 999's replacement.

we ll see..... I bet ya two pints [pay-a-ble and the trtnr] I'll be rite...

[Fatjim]

That reminds me, you owe a few people pints round here

[slob]

with any luck they will reintroduce the TL1000

Or even better, roll-out an SV800 - the weight of the 650 with the power of the 1000!

[James Deuce]

Check the date?

The SP3-5 were just rebadged SP2s. Can;t see the SP6 being any different.

[James Deuce]

http://blog.ducati.com/post/31/desmosedici-rr

ducati is still going to be doing twins.

Interesting. Claudio Domenicali is obviously sending a message to his boss telling him to hurry up and build V4 street bikes then. The latest interview I read said that they would have a V4 WSBK contender for 2008.

They'll definitely keep building twins, I never said that they wouldn't, just that their Superbike and 999 replacement will be a V4.

[James Deuce]

we ll see..... I bet ya two pints [pay-a-ble and the trtnr] I'll be rite...

Done!

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[spudchucka]

Yeah i fully see your point, i mean is there much difference anyways between sp1 and sp2?

thing is they are still making them which makes me happy, ive heard they are an awesome machine to ride.

The SP1's had a few handling issues. The SP2's were sorted out and they haven't changed since. In all honesty they are probably just repainting the left over stock each year and calling it an SP-whatever until they get rid of all of them.

[Lou Girardin]

V4's are the only way for ducatis to be truly competitive from the looks of it so its understandable.

V2's seem to do OK in World Supers.

[spudchucka]

V2's seem to do OK in World Supers.

The Ducati Cup? At least now they are playing on a relatively level field, unlike in Slight's era when the jap bikes were restricted to 750. The way it is running now has made it an interesting competition again, previously I'd completely lost interest because it was just a question of which Ducati rider would win.