| Author | Message | ||
     Eboos |
I really didn't understand what it means, so I looked it up. Wikipedia has a good definition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmodromic_valve Here's another link http://members.chello.nl/~wgj.jansen/ (Message edited by eboos on August 15, 2006) | ||
| Court |
It's Italian for "financially unstable".  | ||
| Skyguy |
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| Eboos |
Is this what you mean?  52 Week High 14.75 27 Sep 2005 Low 6.90 19 Jul 2006 Today 8.60 | ||
| Court |
No silly . . . it was a joke. It's really a pretty neat system. I used to have a killer animated gif of the darn thing. | ||
| Eboos |
I know that's not what the word means, I was just wondering if Ducati doesn't have a very good financial history. | ||
| Mikej |
Imagelinks (may or may not work)   | ||
| Tq_freak |
Court - that was a good one  | ||
| Jayvee |
You know the Wikipedia didn't sound right saying Desmo came out in the 70's, so I checked and here's a link that says it came out in 1956, two years after Fabio started working there. (Not THAT Fabio...) This timeline sounds righter than Wikipedestrian http://www.liebold.com/history.html | ||
| Bomber |
Mercedes Benz had the same system -- long before that -- I believe demo valve control started in aircraft engines . . . | ||
| Crusty |
Wasn't Desmodromic valve actuation originally designed by Ruberto Goldbergalini? | ||
| Ducxl |
Good 'ole 'rube........I tune my own 4v Desmodromics. how about a Vee-Twin 1000 that can rev to over 10,000 rpm.HP and torque | ||
| Lowflyer |
I thought it meant "noisy clutch." | ||
| Blake |
Fabio rides a Buell. He sent me a photo of it once. Yeah, that "Fabio." | ||
| Crusty |
how about a Vee-Twin 1000 that can rev to over 10,000 rpm.HP and torque I dunno; Honda built a 500 cc pushrod V-twin that revved to 10,000 RPM. Then they built Colin Edwards RC-51 that beat Troy Corser's Desmo Duck for the WSB championship. Ducatis have panache like few others, but I still think Desmodromic valve actuation answers a problem that was solved a while ago through advances in metallurgy. | ||
| Mbsween |
Hey wait, isn't a Buell an American motor stuffed into an italian frame? I've always though of Buell,Ducati and BMW owners as having the same sickness, just in different colors | ||
| Diablobrian |
The "I can't believe it's not butter" Fabio has a very impressive collection of motorcycles. He even has an episode of celebrity hobbies do a bit on his dirt biking, and he showed of a 'busa and other bikes too. I guess he knows how to spend that romance novel money so that he'll have a way to enjoy it when his looks go. | ||
| Rocketman |
Honda built a 500 cc pushrod V-twin that revved to 10,000 RPM. Then they built Colin Edwards RC-51 that beat Troy Corser's Desmo Duck for the WSB championship. Actually Edwards RC51 was built by Honda Racing in Louth, England and was a lot more British than Japanese. Rocket | ||
| Blake |
Desmo is cool. Blake like. How about hydraulic pushrod desmo? Even more cool? | ||
| Blake |
I guess then it would be a push-pull rod. ![: ]](http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/clipart/proud.gif) |
