Friday, May 10, 2013
The 2013 Ducati Streetfighter 848
The Ducati Streetfighter s scored a round one knock-out when it entered the ring for the first time at the Milan show back in November 2008. This bike equipped with everything that made the Superbike a legend: Awesome L-Twin muscle with brutal, big-bore torque, thoroughbred chassis technology, beautiful single-sided swingarm, racebred brakes and pure, sophisticated class. Now, the Streetfighter family reborn with the astonishing power of the latest Streetfighter S or weave through the bends with precision and assured control on the new Streetfighter 848, pure riding pleasure is guaranteed.
The engine arrive with masterpiece of Desmodromic engine design, the 848 Testastretta 11°, L-Twin cylinder, 4 valve per cylinder Desmodromic, liquid cooled. The Testastretta 11° engine on the Streetfighter 848 features a crankcase produced by pressure die casting under vacuum using Vacural® technology. This gives significant weight savings and ensures constant wall thickness and greater strength. The engine also transmits drive to a sophisticated wet clutch that is a full kilo lighter than the corresponding dry version, its also characterised by enhanced durability, improved feel and lower noise levels, making riding a real pleasure whatever the circumstances. The engine can deliver 132 hp at 10,000 rpm and a torque of 9.5 kgm at 9,500 rpm.
The 2013 Ducati Streetfighter 848 is armed with fully adjustable 43mm Marzocchi forks up front and a fully adjustable Sachs monoshock at the rear, giving the bike high performance handling and the rider absolute confidence and a comfortable ride. On the rear, the single Sachs unit operates through a progressive linkage and single-sided swingarm and is also fully adjustable in spring preload and damping in both compression and rebound.
The Streetfighter S was Ducati’s first ever naked sportbike to be fitted with the awesome Ducati Traction Control (DTC) system and the 2013 Ducati Streetfighter 848 is also armed with the same full eight-level DTC as standard equipment. In developing its World Championship-winning traction control system for road use, Ducati continue to demonstrate their strategy of transferring technologies from their race bikes into the production environment, and show how solutions developed for performance on the track really can be applied to enhance safety on the road. DTC is able to sense the exact use that the Streetfighter is being put to. From slow mid-corner acceleration with considerable vehicle inclination to high speed corner exits while almost upright, DTC is intelligent enough to react according to each and every situation.
For an engine with brute power, 2013 Streetfighter 848 uses powerful brake to reduce speed. Brakes used 4-piston radially-mounted Brembo calipers on dual 320 mm discs at the front and a 2-piston caliper at the rear that acts on a 245 mm disc , thus ensuring efficient, instantly available, awesome braking power.
