A new and historic chapter is opening for Ducati – the red team from Borgo Panigale is entering the world of motocross.

Nine-time MX World Champion Antonio Cairoli will join Ducati as a high-performance test rider for the new racing program.

Ducati has also signed a multi-year agreement with Maddii Racing, one of the most experienced teams in the motocross paddock, which will be the reference structure for MX racing activities and will take part in the 2024 Italian Motocross Championship with Alessandro Lupino, eight-time Italian Champion and winner of the 2021 MXoN, also hired by Ducati as a race and test rider.

This is a multi-year project that envisages the creation of a complete range of engines and off-road motorcycles. The models will gradually form part of a family of Ducati-branded motorcycles, starting with motocross.

The focus of Ducati’s off-road project is a combination of the demand for lightness taken to the extreme, top-of-the-range components and engines characterized by a very wide power delivery curve. The latter is achieved thanks to the use of the Desmodromic system, used on all the Bologna company’s sports bikes from MotoGP onwards. Ducati is, in fact, the only company in the world that uses the same valve return system on its top-performing production bikes as it does on its racing prototypes.

Entering the specialized off-road sector represents a very important and challenging strategic choice for Ducati, made possible by the excellent results achieved in recent years. A decision that confirms the desire to expand the brand’s presence in currently unexplored terrain. New young riders will be able to get closer to the Borgo Panigale brand and thus enter the large community of Ducatisti.

Performance is one of the brand’s three core values, along with style and sophistication.

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“Something electricfying”, says Ronnie Renner at the opening of a video posted on his social media accounts, in which he appears riding a bike he’s never seen before: a CFMOTO electric motocross bike. Ronnie is a former freestyler known for his records and his career in motocross and, at least at the moment, he is the first to give us direct news of an electric motocross bike made by the Chinese manufacturer

No data, just dynamic images that suggest future technical – and we believe market – information about the new CFMOTO. What we do know for sure is that the bike was created in conjunction with the Chinese manufacturer’s American research and development department, which usually handles the CFMOTO quad bikes, which are bestsellers and are obviously used mainly off-road.

The layout of the bike appears to be conventional: from the photo taken from the video and which you can see at the beginning, it’s clear that the intention was to concentrate the masses where we normally find the internal combustion engine, while we don’t see the rear brake pedal on the prototype, which – but this is all to be confirmed – should be operated by the lever to the left of the handlebar (unlike the Honda CR Electric intended for competition, which retains the rear brake pedal), and the pedal to the left is also absent, attesting to the absence of a gearbox. It’s hard to be precise, but we can’t make out a radiator, so we assume there’s no liquid cooling for the batteries or the engine.

What can we expect? We don’t know if the CFMOTO electric off-road bike will be presented at EICMA, but we’re willing to bet that we’ll be hearing about it soon, initially in the USA, but certainly with rapid developments in Europe too.

You can watch the video at this link.

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