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Enrico Punsalang

Ducati Put Desmodromic Valves In A Dirt Bike. Now It's Doubling Down

Ducati has spent decades making ridiculously fast motorcycles that look like they belong in art galleries and sound like they're trying to start a fight. So naturally, someone in Bologna decided the next logical step was to take that same engineering philosophy and throw it into the dirt. The result was the Desmo450 MX, Ducati's first production motocross bike, which debuted in 2025.

And now, barely a year into its existence, Ducati is already giving it a pretty substantial round of updates for 2027.

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