Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Ducati SuperSport 950 The sensible superbike

As a Ducati-mad teenager years ago, inspired by Mike Hailwood’s TT heroics, I had a strange motorcycling ambition. There was a temptingly smooth and wide S-bend on the A41 a few miles from my Hertfordshire home, and I dreamt about riding through it at 100mph on a Ducati 900 SuperSport, the most raw and racy superbike of its day.

I never got close to owning a 900SS, let alone cranking it through those sweepers at a ton. But decades later I suddenly find myself aboard a bright red SuperSport 950, heading down the A41 and looking for an opportunity to put Ducati’s current bearer

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