The Ducati museum is a must see for all Ducatisti and any motorcycle lover, but it becomes even more special when your tour guide is 9-times World Champion Valentino Rossi, who is in his own way a racing history buff, even if he gets a little help from Livio Lodi, the museum’s curator.
Rossi together with Guido Meda, Sportmediaset’s MotoGP commentator takes us through a part of the museum where you can see Ducati’s first manufactured 4-stroke clip-on engine on the Cucciolo, which Rossi jokingly says that Filippo Preziosi got severals ideas for the Desmosedici.
We next see Ducati’s first true racing bike, the 125cc Marianna designed by Fabio Taglioni, then Mike Hailwood’s bikes, which include’s a look see at the tennis ball state-of-the-art visor cleaner, that Mike the Bike used during his various Tourist Trophy races and an array of Ducati’s MotoGP bikes that have won at least a race.