Ducati

John Hogan reports back from the launch of the Ducati Monster 1100

Thirty-three years in the planning and Ducati's Sportclassics are finally here. But you'd better be quick if you want one.

The Ducati Monster S4Rs Testastretta gets a 999 130bhp engine and a chassis to match any superbike. Wide bars, wide attitude, wide grin.

Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire.

Ducati enters the supermoto scene with a bang. That'll be the mirror on a car's door then...

The 999 didn't win so many hearts, but it won a lot of races. The 1098 has us weak at the knees but can it perform? Dukes go head-to-head in Spain.

Back in the day the Bol d'Or was THE end-of-summer ride out. Using retro-repros TWO is recreating the experience: twins and twin-shocks to the Bol. Let the slipstreaming begin!

Oversized 600s or underpowered1000s? With choices like these now is the time to think outside the box and dip into the middle ground.

Unsurprisingly, the revised 999S doesn't disappoint. But is it worth nearly three grand over the standard model?

In which three big V-twins hurtle across Europe in search of sun, speed, a track day at Imola and a big day out at Italy's largest rock festival. Groovy!

The new 999R gets the trickest motor Ducati has ever made. It's also just like Neil's (Hodgson, that is) they say, so we sent our own Niall to ride it.

I have to say I'm a bit of a Multistrada fan. It's one of those strange bikes that, initially, I wanted to hate, but has since really grown on me.

Ducati keep it in the family with a brand new baby Multistrada. Tim Dickson braves the worst of Sicily's weather to find out more.

Four of the sexiest Italian bikes on the planet, a run through the Alps and a cappuccino in Milan