Bike World Dream Rides | Ducati Desmosedici RR On The Road 

The Ducati equivalent to the F40. Analog and very, very special. I remember when they were announced trying to do the sums on how to buy one. It was never going to happen.

Riding one of these bikes is one thing - OWNING one is another story altogether, back in 2015 I found myself in a position to buy any bike I wanted - I ended up with six Ducati, a Kawasaki and no Wife, (she left in disgust) The D16RR is a cranky expensive razor and I loved it, mine came with the 'customer sport' exhaust and ecu, so it was like a fish out of water until you hit the track (or open road) - I live in Australia so Phillip Island GP circuit is only an hour from home, it`s the perfect place to sort out which bike can do what - my 1198R came out on top for lap times, it was a former superbike in the domestic series down here and was a wild ride, but the Desmosedici was a Dream Ride Indeed. Now I`ve made it to 60 y/old I`ve hung up the leathers and sold-off the bulk of the bikes, but I kept one - the Desmosedici 👀

Since i saw the presentation in a local dealer in france, the start up sound, time to turn around and even saw in the garage without the panels. I keep that motorcycle in my dreams for the best sound ever heard on a production bike.

Chris, With either the Superleggera or Desmo, you could put a few grand down and finance one. Run it hard for a year and then probably sell it for what you paid or more. These collectables are the sweet spot of free motoring. Love the content mate! 👌

Chris, you are the right person to have these dream rides bestowed upon you to test. I will say it again. How incredibly generous of the good folks to entrust you to ride and share with all the viewers. An absolute treat!

Desmo camshaft closed the valves as well as opens em !! Best sounding bike on the road and thats gorgeous too

Love this series, keep 'em coming! 👏

If this long SHARKY design is not a masterpiece, than what does? It is legendary

My dad owns #401 and he's got maybe 6000km on it. As mentioned in the video, it now sits inside his house on display. Also, hearing this bike in person does not compare in the slightest to hearing it in a video - it's just so loud and angry.

I’d happily Chuck in a quid on GoFundMe for you Chris, easily done with the amount of subscribers. Then you could share the fun of racing it over a few months. Then maybe do a lottery for it for a charity? Anyhow, thank you for allowing me to vicariously enjoy the beauty of that beast! 👍

I have ridden one of these back then and feeling was like the bike tells you I don’t want you to ride me I will deside if you are good enough for me …. And then when you think you have peace then here comes war again…

Something as close to the motogp version would be the RC213V-S. It would be amazing if you guys could sort one out.

What happened to the Bike World Desmo??? 😕 Also, Chris, I’m interested in why you’d choose the 1199 SL over the 1299 one? Amazing content, thanks 🙏🏼

My dream!

What happened to that Desmo that John and Dan rebuilt ?

I can't find your video on the Superleggera Chris?

Yummy. It may look like a whale of a ride, but it's gotta be loads of fun. :::SCOTTY DUCATI:::. 🥰🥰🥰 Oo.

It's the only bike that i won't mind sleeping with on bed

I would buy a real GP bike to play ( can be made street legal ) and a Panigale to cruise. The Desmo is beautiful but it’s a compromise.

The Desmo RR is _the_ most beautiful bike ever built, with the RC213V-S a very close second (for me). This little series is brilliant so a big thank you. Cheers fella's 👍😁

I love how there is another one in the back 😆

For mind blowing concept, design, build, and rarity, it would have to be Honda's 1992 NR750 Oval Piston for me personally. I don't care if it's slow and heavy, not powerful, not a race bike etc., etc. I just don't think anyone will ever top that for sheer amazement in spectacular engineering.

I love this series Chris, watching your passion and skill, riding some real old school class, is way up there. Cheers👍🏻

I'm glad you said they did some without the stripes on the side as years ago I was sure I saw one on the road. It was definitely a Ducati and was definitely not a v twin sound. It was also before they made the 4 cylinder superbike. I'm even more confident I saw one now.

Not sure where this series goes from the desmo, the ultimate Ducati if not ultimate street-legal bike ever. But, what's next on the list? 1098R Yamaha R7 Vincent Black Shadow Bimota Tesi RC30 VF1000R

Great vid. Fortunate to have a Desmo and V4 Super in the garage. Such different bikes to ride. The super is pleasant but super quick and agile but the Desmo, it makes you smile every time you ride it. And yes, they both get riden lots

Desmo is not a bike, it's an art on wheels. The artist being always, Ducati

This is my all time favorite bike since it came out. I was fortunate enough to see a rosso one just parked next to other bikes in a city in central Mexico. I was a block away when I saw it. Stunning from afar. Shocked it didn't get more attention. Absolute beauty

Well done Chris! Thanks for lending him the Duck, James! 😁 Every gearhead in the world appreciates it! 👍

In re-watching this for the umpteenth time, while stuck with Ducatis in the garage and my foot in a walking boot, I got goosebumps, seeing and hearing the bike. Chris’s description of its elemental, raw characteristics reminded me of Aldous Huxley’s description of our brain and nervous system as a reducing valve, protecting us in our daily survival by reducing consciousness to a “measly trickle” (The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell). This was the Ducati designers and engineers tossing out the reduction valve and gifting us the full-tilt experience; a rushing river in place of a measly trickle.

Un popular opinion but its mine and I'm entitled to it. This is what's wrong with ducati.. fat too expensive and builds a bike that they are proud to say they live in games room and glass cases??? Also it looks like a bottom feeding fish from the front. Panigale is better looking

Rich people's Karizma xmr 😂😂😂

In terms of styling, the Superleggera is very similar to other bikes now, the Desmosedici is a museum piece of art like the 916, it looks incredible, and nothing like any other bike, ever. It's a track bike for people who don't care if they bin it or to be kept in the garage and looked at for the few seconds it's not covered. I think you're right there, Chris, it's a Ducati, just like having an Italian girlfriend, she'll let you know when you're doing it wrong and dump you when you're not good enough...

Dam! This bike look so good. Still today after all these years "Nothing Still Beats It". The design & concept of this motorcycle is incredible ❤.

great video ! if you can sort out a Honda RC213V-S, it would be crazy!

Funny. Cos we all know Stoner was incredible on this era’s MotoGP bike - but this bike just reminds me of Bayliss every time. No idea why.

One of my all time favourite bikes - I wish I had the money back in 2008 ….. I still want one now ! A couple years ago I was at the NEC bike show when the new Ducati V4 was on show - it didn’t compare to the Desmo !

The series says dream rides but ive yet to see a Suzuki Van Van.

Easily among the most desirable bikes EVER made. Stunning beauty. Savage performance. Top shelf pedigree. Distinctly Italian in every way.

Chris, please do a 999R if you get the chance.

Love the desmo RR and the review series, well done guys Would you be able to review a Honda CBR1000RR 2006? I would love to hear your thoughts comparing it to a modern super sports bike

I made the pistons in that bike, this is the single reason the bike is so good.... honest 😃

The most beautiful bike ever built? .....it's lovely yes, but better or more sexy than a 916SPS? 916SPS all day long and twice on Sunday!!!

I remember my dad having one of these when I was a kid and the sound of it is just unreal, they burblenthey have when you release the clutch and roll off sounds just like the GP bikes. The sound doesn't come across anywhere close on camera!

Awesome review!! Your description of this bike reminds me of the first time I 'demo rode' the first year Ducati 1098...no rider aids, stiff on/off clutch, stiff throttle, super sensitive grabby brakes, loud and viby engine, crazy low end torque, hard and stiff suspension, front wheel in the air at every twist of the throttle in the lower gears, very limited steering lock. I felt that it definitely wanted to kill anyone that dared to ride it. Loved it! And so, I bought the Monster s2r1000 instead.

@1:57 they say that nobody has done a more motogp:ish bike for the road, well the Honda rc213v-s is basically that. Dont forget that this wannabe motogp got trounced in comparisons to the aprilia rsv4 1000, just like when cheaper and better d675 trounced the Mv Augusta 675 :P

The only bikes that interest me or ones that are a joy to ride. Videos like these are a pleasure to watch.

I think you summed it up perfectly Chris, the D16RR is an event every time you press the starter. The exhaust note, intake and just how fast the motor spins up is incredible. Admittedly they're not an easy bike to live with on the road, you can just burble along at 30mph quite easily, but get it above 10K and it'll rip your arms off. They only really make sense above 100mph, everything just works then, the chassis comes alive and the stiffness seems to fade away. It's the exhaust/intake that is just all encompassing when you are on one, you cannot hear anything else the sound is all around you.

John Valk @ BMW & Ducati Vancouver British Columbia Canada was my first First Date with it Because of Rusty Santos and the Great Team as a Last Lot Boy.

The start up sounds a little bit like a brand new rd 350 with a brand new expansion Chamber, oh gosh it's epic. It's like a little bit of heaven had just occured/ happened or something like it, does anything that I've just wrote make sense or have any meaning or correct.

Sorry, bikes and cars do not belong in glass cabinets... They are made for driving/riding. On the public road... It is very personal yet I have little respect for those machines or for the people that own them, sorry. To me not real enthusiasts, more show offs...

Chris and I have the same blank check bike the 1199 Superleggera. I think it is the Ultimate version of the greatest and sexiest Ducati.

I adore mine (#1452). Best sounding bike ever; aggro like an old school Duke should be, but actually useable; and looks epic!

That panel gaps look surprisingly rubbish absolutely unforgivable in this price of motorcycle

Unfortunately I haven't got a motorbike riding license 😢😅

Chris try the most unheard of endurance reca replica one can buy that was raced in 24 hours of La Mans. BMW HP2 Sport! It is my dream bike.

Just curious, have you ridden an 1198S or SP? How does the power compare?

Is that another one behind you Chris?

I dont get it… its 100% homologation bike or does it share the platform with a 1098 or 1198?

Would you like to do a review of a 1098s tricolore please … my dreambike

That Desmo rebuild series was soooo disappointing, that's fantastic you actually rode one and told us about how the damn thing feels like!

Cold start and instant revvs lol

Imagine first time ducati started that engine. Bet they thought someone left a socket in the cylinder.

I still firmly believe the 2000-2008 litre bikes were the wildest machines ever made, the power and handling is pretty much comparable to anything modern but with little to no electictrics calming things back down.

Nice vid. I do fancy one but it’s a chunk to have in one bike. Cracker tho.

After the 998R that´s my dream bike! :D

Some years back i saw one at Kavala in Greece and it was simply the only time in my hole life (im 34) that i was SOCKED that way just by looking at a motorcycle! Remember when it was the first time that you saw a shiny red Ferrari or Lambo when you were a school boy? I felt the same feeling looking at Desmocedicci passing by! Man what a piece of art!

Super emotional productions you guys are doing! Top 👍

this seems like a motorcycle that was created by God himself

Am I the only one who hates a dry clutch?

The one I've been waiting for,, your ride and review of the desmo I'd love one but I'd want to ride it and some do ,,, awesome thanks Ducati for the balls to build and sell em ,,rcv 160000 if you can get one ,, be able to get most of my dream bikes for that money 🤑🤑🤑🤑 from northern Ireland great video

*_the most beautiful Ducati bike i have ever saw._*

I remember troy bayliss doing a test on Casey stoner's championship winner , how raw it was . Respect to Casey first year on the desmosidisi . Awesome bike cheers

My ultimate dream bike. I've been looking for one here in Canada for a while now. If I ever get it I'll definitely be riding it. How can you own and not ride the greatest sounding exhaust ever

Do Givi do a top box bracket for it?

I wonder if it needed an ecu flash, a tune up on the dyno etc .. haha!

My most loved motorcycle of all time.😢

My absolute dream bike , even above a 916 or early F4 Was it a previous bike world that stripped and rebuilt one ? The guy that did the mechanics was excellent humble but knew his stuff . I just look at it with its dolphin face saying I won’t hurt you ,,,, no I’ll eat you alive . I don’t do the lotto , maybe I should!

You can start calling yourself Chris-tmas when you ride that thing! #expendables

Oh I wish I could win the lottery

No rider aids, so likely to kill all but the most experienced riders these days (since we’ve had rider aids for over a decade and most, if not all riders ‘lean’ on them, including gp racers) excluding the delusional ones that have convinced themselves that they don’t… or you could just gently cruise on the bike with some light spirited riding, as most owners will unless they haven’t yet taken it ‘out the box’. It isn’t forgiving in any way, so pretty ‘hairy’ too! Looks fab and if you can hear past the noisy rattly clutch it doesn’t sound bad either. Possibly a classic of the future (since most people are already “gushing” over it with their rose tinted views and opinions, but won’t (and hasn’t) appreciated like property. The RC213V-S has, on the other hand made a very appreciable difference. The real solid investments are still in the old ‘Old’ classics.

is that 2 desmo in the frame?

mf has another one at the back jesus

Well the chicken strips on the tyre at the end says it all. Ridden with the utmost respect. I love your enthusiasm Chris. A great channel.

Unreal…that exhaust! That face!

I think these Ducati’s are a lot like Ferraris. A lot of money and a lot of superlatives. Since money is so important when discussing Italian cars and bikes I decided to do a little research. In 2006 this fancy bike cost about 71,000.00 dollars. Holy Smokes! Good investment? Fifteen years later they have sold regularly for 50-60 cents on the dollar. Honda RC30’s on the other hand sell for five times their original MSRP.

03:52 lets go and fix that

Seen one in person when I use to work at a Ducati/triumph dealer 👌🏾, was just sitting on the showroom floor for sale and this was only 3 years ago lol

what a bike , a dream

I have a Rosso that will be going back to the US from Germany. I've had the opportunity to legally get the bike up to the speed where it needs to be, WHAT A BLAST, but it is not the daily driver. 2 hours is pushing it, very stiff. I still love it!

What a job you have! Damn! Great video as always

was waiting for this one such a shame you didnt show much footage,or get the bike over on its side as i saw the tyres were pretty untouched ,love to see more on this if you could

Man. These series of videos are so high quality!!! I wish each episode is slightly longer. Also I'd appreciate 1-2 mins external microphone for the exhaust note!

Did you feel the chemicals releasing in the old grey matter 👌 italia!!! What next 🤔 wonder what 8 valve...oval pistoned feels and sounds like? 😉

Great review, thanks. It's the last really beautiful Ducati. Others are angry and angular, but this and the 916/996/998 are the peak.

You lucky sod, in my 45 years of riding and owning close to 40 bikes over that period only two bikes have scared me ,the original two stroke Kawasaki H2 and the Ducati Panigale 1199 ,which IMO shows what a beast the 1199 is considering it has nearly 3 times the power of the H2 ,a fantastic chassis along with modern tyres which are light years ahead of the H2s 1970s marble mimicking tyres, yet with all these massive improvements it still rivals the old "widow maker" as the scariest bike.

The OE Bridgestones really hamper the bike. They weren't great when the bike was new and tire technology has advanced dramatically since. Modern rubber makes it a much better handling bike.

My kind of bike, exquisite… You can’t help but associate this Desmo with Casey Stoner..

Chris, why'd you drag both feet on the asphalt when you started going @12:00?

Dealer took $100k deposit for the 4 or so allocated to my country and my office was in the same building at the time. When it finally arrived we were just all in awe...