There's no denying this 916SPS Foggy Rep is gorgeous, but is it £42,000 gorgeous?Ok, so this is number 001, with Foggy himself having number 002 but I'm still not sure what makes this worth £42,000.I struggle when it comes to the prices of some old

BONHAMS auction house have announced that two former Carl Fogarty Ducatis will go under the hammer in April this year.The models are a Ducati 888 Corsa, ridden to victory by Fogarty in the North West 200 in 1993 and a 1998 916SPS ‘Fogarty Replica

If you can’t beat them, get the rules changed so you can then build a bike with all the bits you need to dominate the racetrack out of the box. Ducati’s 1098R is pure WSB homologation magic...This time I’m going to be brave. Probably braver than I have been for a while. Ordinaril...

for a monster £18,000. Even by today’s money that’s lunatic cash for a sportsbike, so much so that Performance Bikes branded the RC45 a “waste of money!” on their cover and Honda promptly pulled all their advertising from the title for a year.The 916SPs

, a 1998 Ducati 916SPS 'Fogarty Replica'.  The latter is road registered and carries S3 FOG resitration number to celebrate the 3rd World Superbike Championship for Carl and Ducati.  Both bikes are fully authenticated by the Bologna factory, and come

to ride this year.The Ducati SP5 couldn’t be more different and provides enough of a talking point in the design department alone. It was always a bit of a stunner but dated during the 916 years and became less loved and less impressive. Yet now it has

traditional classics that found willing buyers.While King Carl's road-going 916SPS Foggy Replica – serial number 002, with only 26 miles on the clock and the registration “S3 FOG” - did find a buyer willing to spend £27,600 on it, the rest of the headliners

of view of me riding? The first time I got on the 916. In those days the SPS used to arrive in a box and you had to assemble them yourself. I still enjoy getting my hands dirty.You are often pictured wearing a Hawaiian shirts, are you not a suit man?I don

when you first clapped eyes on a 916? It's hard to believe you can now pick up the same impossibly exotic dream for under three grand. In fact 916s are getting so bloody cheap I've all but gone off the idea - but I could be tempted by a 748 SPS

to spin the rear and lift the front at the slightest twitch of the throttle in top, at a ton. The ZX-12R I took to the Bol d'Or last summer was stunning, and how could I forget the Mille-R, the Ducati 916SPS, the...A favourite? It would be easier to learn