There are some extremely rare bikes that don’t come up for sale very often—so when they do, it’s An Occasion. Without question, the Ducati Desmosedici RR is one of these bikes. While super tricked-out superbike homologation specials have been a thing for decades, the 2004 announcement that Ducati was about to create what would essentially be a street version of its then-current MotoGP bike was a revelation. Production started in 2006, and a total of 1,500 of those ultra-rare, race-bred machines were ever made.
Before today, the last time we saw one of these masterpieces come up for sale was in August, 2020, where it was up for auction and the bid was up to $31,500 at the time of writing. The unit for sale in 2020 was number 780, and it had a grand total of 3,000 miles on the clock—low miles, for sure, but certainly indicative that someone had put in at least a few laps to get to know this bike’s personality.
