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A dss with a similar design and weight will be more robust than its sss counterpart. While it may be cheaper, I do not think a dss was put in place for costs. Releasing a Mickey Mouse Panigale that wont sell would cost them a pretty penny.
I said they claim it's as light as MOST DSS...not that they couldn't do more by using the same technology on a double sider. On a MotoGP bike I would expect them to strive for maximum moment of inertia and to hell with costs. A DSS of this construction is more expensive to construct than a SSS version, I'd wager, though it should be considerably stiffer, especially in lateral stiffness.
I can find no specific claims of weight or moment of inertia for the SSS, only Ducati's claims that it's adoption of the technology during design of the 1098 resulted in a swingarm that is significantly lighter than the 999's double sider with a higher moment of inertia.....for what that's worth.
The DSS in the photo looks like a cast unit, so it should be considerably less expensive than the welded assemblage of stampings and castings on the 1098/1198 or 1199 bikes.
Agreed regarding the consequences of an ill-selling model. It'd have to be MUCH less expensive to overcome the handicap of its looks, I think.
Maybe they can call the smaller model the "PaniGIRLY"!
