Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An internal combustion engine, at its core, is similar to a giant air pump. To produce power, it sucks in fresh air and fuel, ...

A Ducati Panigale 899 in red parked on a twisty road, front 3/4 view - Navapon_plodprong/Getty Images There are certain engine technologies that seem to make a lot of sense, until you scratch beneath ...

Word in the MotoGP paddock is that rival engineers are starting to realize the advantages of Ducati's desmodromic valve system may exist on several levels. The Desmosedici GP7s of Casey Stoner and ...

Imagine taking the Ducati desmodromic valve system and adding electronic control that provides brief bursts of two-stroke power! The result could be a motorcycle engine that delivers great low-down ...

Ducati has made public the new Variable Valve Timing technology we wrote about only two days ago. While one of the small mysteries was whether the D from the DVT acronym stood for Ducati, Dynamic or ...

Ducati has pushed 998cc motorcycle performance further than almost anyone else, producing an astonishing 243 horsepower from ...

Ducati has announced it will introduce new engine technology that will boost power and torque, improve fuel economy, reduce emissions and won’t affect servicing intervals. Ducati Testastretta engine ...

At its most basic level, an engine is an air pump. Internal combustion engines breathe fresh air and expel wasted exhaust gases to make power. Something has to tell those intake and exhaust valves ...

There are certain engine technologies that seem to make a lot of sense, until you scratch beneath the surface just a little. Desmodromic valvetrains are one such technology. To be fair, this is more ...

A new generation of Testastretta engines will use new variable valve timing, which Ducati calls Desmodromic Valve Timing. Multistrada 1200 likely to be the first bike to be equipped with this ...