It’s no secret that Ducati has been growing motocross bikes, and even racing prototypes, however at present Ducati introduced the provision of a manufacturing Desmo450 MX. The bike will probably be in U.S. dealerships this July priced $11,495.
You possibly can check out the Ducati web site right here, and the complete press launch follows, together with a number of photographs:
The bike developed by Tony Cairoli and Alessandro Lupino in racing competitors is lastly obtainable
The Desmo450 MX is the one bike in its class with a Desmodromic engine
The Desmo450 MX is a quick and easy-to-ride bike for professionals and amateurs alike because of its engine energy supply and aluminium body
The Desmo450 MX is supplied with a totally new traction management system, a singular within the Motocross world
The Ducati Desmo450 MX will arrive in chosen European dealerships ranging from June 2025, reaching North America in July and lengthening subsequent to the remainder of the world
Borgo Panigale (Bologna, Italy), 3 April 2025 – A historic day for the Borgo Panigale producer: Ducati presents the Desmo450 MX, the primary motocross bike in its historical past. A motorcycle that’s born following the philosophy that has all the time guided Ducati: experimenting and testing options in racing competitors to then make them obtainable on manufacturing bikes, drawing on this case additionally from the expertise gained by Ducati Corse in MotoGP and Superbike.
Due to this method, and to a cautious evaluation of the section, opponents and FIM and AMA technical laws, Ducati has been in a position to create a lightweight and dependable bike, with a high-performance Desmodromic distribution engine and digital gear that’s the benchmark within the class. The Desmo450 MX is thus able to amplifying the using expertise of riders, whether or not skilled or novice, providing the arrogance that permits them to push their limits ahead. A motorcycle that, because of the ability supply of the engine, chassis and revolutionary electronics, is able to providing excessive efficiency with diminished bodily effort.
The Desmo450 MX is the primary mannequin in an entire vary of specialist off-road bikes, designed to take the Borgo Panigale firm into new worlds, communicate to new motorcyclists and due to this fact develop the Ducatisti neighborhood. To organize to welcome all future knobby-wheeled Ducatisti into the household, Ducati has labored by coaching a choice of its sellers to make sure the utmost stage of professionalism and experience in a section that’s fully new to the Borgo Panigale firm.
“Over the previous 18 months many individuals have requested me why Ducati determined to enter the world {of professional} off-road racing. The reply is easy: Ducati is a wholesome firm that generates sources, due to this fact has the chance to develop by opening as much as a brand new section of lovers,” mentioned Claudio Domenicali, CEO of Ducati Motor Holding. “We regarded round, trying to find the essential uniqueness of our company tradition and discovering the one which I consider characterises Ducati like maybe no different firm: the closeness between the world of racing and the world of manufacturing motorbikes. And discovering, on the similar time, that we now have an unimaginable useful resource inside us within the type of so many off-road lovers within the numerous departments. All this has allowed us to current the Desmo450 MX at present: a straightforward, high-performance bike, for amateurs and professionals alike, which we’ll always develop by means of sporting exercise on the highest ranges, supporting it because of a gross sales community that speaks the language of motocross lovers and really understands all their wants.”
The Desmo450 MX is designed across the single-cylinder 449.6 cc engine with Desmodromic distribution and represents a unicum within the specialist off-road panorama, providing the opportunity of exploiting each ratio to the fullest, initially and between the bends, because of a very beneficial supply, which mixes torque at low and medium revs with reference over-rev capabilities.
The light-weight aluminium body has been designed to have as few welds as potential, to the advantage of the solidity, lightness and rigidity of the construction. These decisions proved to be instantly profitable within the race with Alessandro Lupino, who after profitable the primary race of the MX1 Italian Championship grew to become nationwide champion. The races served to outline the bike that may go into manufacturing in mid-April, and would be the greatest take a look at bench for the continued growth of the Desmo450 MX and all of the fashions that may change into a part of the vary.
The Desmo450 MX additionally represents a primary within the section when it comes to electronics. It’s in actual fact the primary motocross bike on the earth outfitted with a Traction Management system able to exactly defining the precise rear wheel slippage (patent pending). This method identifies the using phases by which it shouldn’t be activated in order to not restrict the efficiency of the bike. Lastly, the Desmo450 MX Ducati Traction Management might be deactivated immediately by the rider in conditions the place it’s vital to utilize all of the engine efficiency, to be mechanically reactivated shortly after.
The bike, which is already obtainable to order from chosen sellers, will arrive in Europe beginning in June, and subsequently in the US and the remainder of the world.
Single-cylinder engine with Desmodromic distribution management The design of the Desmo450 MX began from the engine, which is supplied with Desmodromic distribution, the system used on all Ducati racing bikes, together with MotoGP. This function provides a number of benefits to the Desmo450 MX, to begin with the flexibility to run the engine at very excessive revs, providing the better extension that will increase the probabilities of beginning quicker than rivals on the gate and thus profitable the coveted Holeshot award that goes to the rider who comes out of the primary nook first. An award that the 2 official riders Seewer and Guadagnini received of their debut race within the Motocross World Championship, in Argentina, utilizing a manufacturing engine outfitted solely with the whole Akrapovič exhaust, the identical one which Ducati makes obtainable to each fanatic by means of its Efficiency catalogue.
The Desmo450 MX additionally provides a really sturdy torque curve at low revs, guaranteeing an abundance of energy out of corners, with a linear supply and unprecedented acceleration for the class. This distinctive energy supply curve, which gives the rider with 70% of the utmost torque already at 4,200 rpm, makes the Desmo450 MX much less demanding and tiring than a standard 450, to the complete benefit of observe efficiency and using enjoyment. This was made potential because of the Desmodromic distribution, which by decreasing the power wanted to open the valves permits for extra aggressive elevate diagrams even when selecting giant diameters for the valves themselves.
Due to bore and stroke measurements of 96 x 62.1 mm, it was in actual fact potential to make use of 40 mm consumption valves and 33 mm exhaust valves. The previous are product of titanium, whereas the latter are product of metal, with a hole stem crammed with sodium to enhance warmth change, thus rising reliability and consistency of efficiency.
Explicit consideration was paid to the cooling system, that includes rhomboid-shaped radiators. These signify a brand new function for the section and permit for a 6.5% larger radiating floor in comparison with a historically formed answer, bettering engine cooling whereas maintaining the bike compact, thus providing the rider a excessive stage of freedom of motion in the direction of the entrance of the bike. Alessandro Lupino and Tony Cairoli competed in 2024 with the usual radiators, able to guaranteeing excessive reliability even in probably the most excessive and prohibitive situations similar to within the race at Ponte a Egola, which was dominated by the 2 Ducati riders, and interrupted attributable to extreme mud on the observe that pressured many of the bikes to cease.
The utmost energy of the Desmo450 engine is 63.5 hp at 9,400 rpm, and the utmost torque delivered is 53.5 Nm at 7,500 rpm. The limiter intervention is ready at 11,900 rpm, a brand new benchmark for the class.
Chassis
The chassis of the Desmo450 MX is predicated on an aluminium perimeter body. This format was chosen to acquire a light-weight construction, which permits the engine to have consumption and exhaust ducts as straight as potential, with a view to assure the perfect efficiency. The technicians of the Borgo Panigale firm have managed to create a construction weighing 8.96 kg characterised by the least potential variety of welds, thus hitting the specified targets of lightness, reliability and rigidity. The body contributes considerably to containing the load of the bike, in a ready-to-use configuration however with out gas, at 104.8 kg.
The body of the Desmo450 MX is made up of solely 11 items, about half in comparison with the competitors, and consists of forged, solid and extruded components. The entrance half, which connects the steering column with the higher shock absorber attachment, is represented by a single forged aspect. This development expertise, which Ducati additionally makes use of on Superbike frames, permits for whole management of the thicknesses, thus utilizing solely the quantity of fabric wanted at every level and creating advanced shapes with out compromising weight or energy.
The extraordinarily compact body design was additionally designed to make sure the perfect ergonomics for the rider and on the similar time fast and straightforward upkeep within the workshop or on the observe, the place operations similar to disassembling the shock absorber might be carried out shortly.
The latter is mounted in a central place and works on a forged aluminium swingarm and a solid aluminium linkage. The progressivity of the hyperlink was outlined through the races run within the 2024 season
The suspension and brakes of the Desmo450 MX have been the topic of a focused resolution. Ducati relied on the lengthy expertise in racing competitors of Showa, which was additionally chosen to facilitate setup for amateurs by advantage of the spring, and never air-based technical format for the elastic part. The fork is absolutely adjustable, with 49 mm inverted stems, 310 mm journey and Kashima Coating remedy on the stanchions. The shock absorber is absolutely adjustable, the wheel journey is 301 mm. To higher develop the setup, Alessandro Lupino raced your complete first a part of the Italian Championship with normal suspension, confirming the validity of the selection of the gear.
As for the braking system, Ducati has additionally chosen on this space to collaborate with its long-standing accomplice Brembo on the event, additionally in Motocross, of benchmark braking programs as has been the case for a few years on street bikes. There’s a two-piston floating caliper on the entrance, and a single-piston caliper on the rear. Galfer brake discs are 260 mm on the entrance and 240 mm on the rear.
Electronics
The expertise in MotoGP and Superbike, the place Ducati is a technological level of reference, allowed the Borgo Panigale technicians to introduce an actual traction management system on the Desmo450 MX, one that’s able to providing advantages when it comes to lap time, rider security and power saving whereas using. In contrast to the programs at present obtainable within the section, the Ducati Traction Management (DTC) applied on the Desmo450 MX calibrates the ability reduce based mostly on the precise rear wheel slippage and inertial measurements of the car dynamics, thus guaranteeing an efficient, immediate and linear intervention. This method is ready to establish moments by which it mustn’t come into motion, similar to jumps, mechanically excluding itself. Moreover, if the rider identifies factors on the observe by which he desires to utilize all of the engine efficiency, he can deactivate the system with a lightweight stress on the clutch lever. The management will mechanically return to operation just a few moments later. Ducati Traction Management provides 4 totally different ranges of intervention.
The digital gear additionally contains Launch Management and Engine Brake Management, which, like DTC, might be configured on totally different ranges of intervention and related to two Driving Modes that the rider can adapt to his wants and the traits of the observe through the X-Hyperlink App. The gearbox is supplied with a Quickshifter in engagement.
Upkeep intervals
The upkeep intervals have been outlined with the intention of decreasing the associated prices for the shopper. Piston substitute is ready at 45 hours, along with the valve clearance examine whereas the whole engine overhaul is ready at 90 hours, benchmark values for the section.
Equipment
Due to the Ducati Efficiency catalogue, it’s potential to create a duplicate of the Ducati Desmo450 MX ridden within the MXGP World Championship by Jeremy Seewer and Mattia Guadagnini. All the small print of the 450 MX Manufacturing unit, in actual fact, can be found within the Ducati Efficiency catalogue with the only exception of the official Showa suspension, which can’t be bought b privateer riders.
The particular elements supplied embody Manufacturing unit parts machined from strong similar to wheel hubs, triple clamps, but in addition an entire exhaust or Akrapovič titanium slip-on silencer and Brembo Racing brake calipers. The listing of obtainable equipment will probably be progressively expanded.
Lastly, to finish the Manufacturing unit look, the Ducati Efficiency catalogue provides a whole technical assortment created in collaboration with Drudi Efficiency. The provide consists of an entire Alpinestars jersey/pants/gloves/boots set, Arai helmet, wind vest, softshell and Spidi rain jacket.
Availability
The Desmo450 MX will arrive at chosen European dealerships from June 2025, with distribution extending to North America in July, adopted by the remainder of the world.
Desmo450 MX
Colors
Foremost normal options
Desmo450 single-cylinder engine, 449.6 cc
Most energy of 63.5 hp at 9,400 rpm, Most torque of 53.5 Nm at 7,500 rpm
Twin-spar Aluminium body
7.2-litre gas tank
Showa 49 mm upside-down forks, absolutely adjustable, 310 mm journey and Kashima Coating
on the fork legs
Showa absolutely adjustable monoshock, 301 mm wheel journey
Solid aluminium swingarm
Brembo braking system with single Galfer discs, 260 mm (entrance) and 240 mm (rear)
Pirelli Scorpion MX32 Mid-Comfortable tyres, 80/100-21” and 110/90-19”
DID chain remaining transmission
Takasago Excel aluminium rims with Alpina spokes, 21” x 1.60” and 19” x 2.15”
2 Energy Modes, 2 Driving Modes
Driving Modes configurable through the accent X-Hyperlink app
New technology electronics package deal with Ducati Traction Management (DTC); Energy Launch;
Fast Shift, Engine Brake Management.
Piston substitute each 45 hours
Valve clearance examine each 45 hours
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