Not a fan of the front end "Catfish" look, or the CBR-esque fairings. Seems as if the bike was dipped into a vat of character dissolving fluid. Each to their own. As for the £75,000 Bagnaia "special" and the £48,000 Tricolore...Hmmm. Ducati will doubtless sell them all but they churn them out so often the word "special" is a bit of a mis-noma these days. Christ you don't even get a carbon front mudguard on the "mere-mortal" S model, as was once the norm on previous iterations. It's all structured to appeal to the most affluent buyer, many of whom won't even start the bike let alone ride it, destined to gather dust in some collection, until it surfaces on the market again in a few years, with gummed up fuel lines, cracked and deteriorated rubber and hardened oil seals. Still Ducati won't care at that point, as by then they will have already released another batch of parts bin limited editions. Back in the day when the SPS was the bike to have amongst model variants, you actually got something that was tangiabally good value for money. Now it is whatever Bologna think you are willing to pay.
