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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by brobinson on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:48PM (#11958371)
Which bike are you looking at? The 1299 Panigale S is $25,500. The Superleggerra 1199 (only 500 made) was 70k+.
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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by zachrose on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:47AM (#11959091)
I don't know how we got to talking about this, but Honda makes a road legal MotoGP replica* bike for $184k.

*Minus the pneumatic valves and probably a few other things.

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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by brobinson on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:33AM (#11959591)
Oh, I was specifically asking about Ducati since that's what was mentioned.

The replica bike you mentioned is a huge disappointment for one reason: "Europe and Australia are offered a 160 hp version, the American market gets roughly 100 hp and in Japan, it's an even paltrier 70 hp." Unless you live in Europe, you have to spend another $10,000+ to get it back up to spec.

I'd rather get a Desmosedici, I think.

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Re:Lamborghini Is Forging Ahead with Forged Carbon Fiber by Florin_Andrei on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:02PM (#11962557)
That thing, unrestrained electronically, could probably make 100 HP with one cylinder dead and a corn cob plugged in the exhaust pipe.
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