Radio-start
Ducati company was founded in 1926 in Bologna. The founders were the brothers Adriano and Marcello Ducati. Both are interested in radio, so the first line of activities was just production of radio engineering. In the 20 years of the XX century, the demand for horns, speakers, did his job, and the company is well-developed.
After World War II the demand for radio equipment has plummeted, and the company came under the control of the state. At the time, Italy was important for the creation of low-cost vehicles, therefore the activity Ducati retrained on production vehicles.
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Ducati Cucciolo
The first products of steel production engines, the project engineer who created Aldo Farinelli. Once Farinelli back to designing sports cars, Ducati celebrated their second birth. Their first velomobile called Cucciolo (Rus puppy), and differed from the existing market velomobile engine capacity 50 cc and excellent traction at low revs.
Already in the early 1950s, Ducati has won half of the Italian market motorbike. By this time, becoming more popular bikes lighter type. And in 1952 was released model Cruiser. The new bike was equipped with electric starter motor c. With the volume of 175 cc engine Power motorcycle was 8 hp The only downside was an automatic transmission, because at that time it could not assess properly. But later appeared on the market 3-speed Cucciolo with engine 55 cc Cruiser and the volume of 98 cc It was the first motorcycle, which had a telescopic fork, the cap frame and swingarm.
A little later, Ducati decided to try his hand at the sport direction and released the 98 Sport. The first sports model overclocked to 95 km / h with a power 6.5 hp
Fabio Taglioni period
In 1954 the chief designer of a young engineer Fabio Taglioni. It is connected with it major achievements Ducati. His first motorcycle Ducati 100 Gran Sport with 98 cc engine immediately liked racers. Fabio tried to increase engine power by increasing speed. Placing the camshaft in the cylinder head, the engineer was able to achieve power 9l.s. and 9000 r / min, allowing the bike 80 kg of speeds up to 130 km / h Desmodromny drive mechanism forced the opening and closing of valves, designed Taglioni in mid 1956, there was a new model motorcycle until 1958. Single-cylinder engine of this bike was a 125 cc And in the next year, Ducati released the same bike, but with two-cylinder engine.
But it's all for sporting purposes, for the domestic market Ducati produced motorcycles with engines 175 and 200 cc And in the early 60's created a new generation of motorcycle - Ducati 250 (18 hp 4takta, overhead camshaft). Motolyubiteli easily built up engine capacity of this model up to 450 cc The most effective models with 250 cm ³-engine Mach began in January 1964 and the Mark 3D 1968.
Taglioni later began developing the 1300 cc engine for public services in the U.S.. As a result, work has received a 4-cylinder engine (100 hp) Apollo. But at the time were not designed to fit a bus power, so using it was abandoned. The truth motorcycle Ducati 750GT (1970 issue), Fabio establish a simplified version of the engine of 750 cc This model could accelerate to nearly 200 km / h with a mass 185 kg and an engine of 60 hp A similar bike Super Sport 750 desmodromnym Drive accelerates to 215 km / h These technologies allow to win first place in motor racing from year to year.
But Taglioni was going on, he replaced the camshaft of bevel gears on the toothed belt, and in the manufacture of the cylinders used in place of iron - nickel alloy with aluminum-silicon coating. Around the same time came the famous Ducati chassis of pipe chrome-molybdenum steel, like a bird cage.
In 1979, Ducati released the 500 Pantah, this model is the fastest in the 500 cc engine size
In 1980 the company started the crisis. In 1985, competing and thriving concern Moto Cagiva bought the production of Ducati motorcycles and motorcycle production begins in style enduro based on two-cylinder Ducati.
Massimo Bordi period and the present time
Just in 1985, after the retirement Fabio Taglioni chief designer takes Massimo Bordi. Based on the engine capacity of 350 Pantah, 750 and 904 cc produced single sport model Ducati 350F3 and 750F1, travel Ducati 350/750 Paso, and Ducati Super Sport. Ducati company from now starts its cooperation with the manufacturer of exhaust systems Italian firm Termignoni.
In the early 1990s, he made his debut Ducati 916. Motorcycle design made famous Italian designer Massimo Tamburini, who created the design of a number of Bimota motorcycles and MV Agusta F4 and Brutale. He had a small feature - the console rear wheel suspension with front suspension forks as an inverted "telescope".
In 1992, the designer has created the legendary Michel Galutstsi model Monster. It was a two-cylinder L-twin engine with dvuhklapannymi cylinder heads and air-oil cooling. The next step was motorcycles Ducati Ducati 748 and 916, had their engines Desma-operated valves Desmoquatro, liquid-cooled, fuel-injected.
In 2000, a model Testatretta. During its development, each part of the engine subjected to computer processing in order to reduce weight and increase strength. Designed so even a better engine with 135 hp (10200 rev / min) was installed on the new model Ducati 996R.
In 2012 the company was bought by Audi AG.
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