[Ducati] ducati trivia

Tue Apr 22 21:13:19 EDT 2008

Great idea

Steve

NDC, but, donate your magazines to the local hospital waiting rooms etc. I
drop mine at Bethesda National Naval since I have to go there every few
weeks for checkups anyway.

W

 usually throw out mags once I've read them but that issue was almost all 
Ducati so I saved it.

  Pjk

Stephen Abramson <desmo900 at optonline.net> wrote:
  For those of you who don't view Motorcyclist magazine, here is the text
from
an interesting article they just ran. And yes, I know, this would have been
a snap if I just scanned and pasted it, but my scanning software is on the
poop. And I type quite fast. . . 

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Krynicki <peterkrynicki at yahoo.com>
To: Ducati Owners Group <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Ducati] ducati trivia

I usually throw out mags once I've read them but that issue was almost all 
Ducati so I saved it.

  Pjk

Stephen Abramson <desmo900 at optonline.net> wrote:
  For those of you who don't view Motorcyclist magazine, here is the text
from
an interesting article they just ran. And yes, I know, this would have been
a snap if I just scanned and pasted it, but my scanning software is on the
poop. And I type quite fast. . . 

920 Total number of employees at the Ducati factory

400 Employees in factory

400 Employees in office

120 Employees in race shop

200 Motorcycles made per day in high season(spring/summer)

100 " " " low
season (fall/winter)

3 Shifts/day in engine machining dept

1 Shift/day on assembly line

30 % of bikes that will remain in Italy

30 % of bikes destines for usa

40 % of weight removed from a 2 valve cylinder head between rough
casting and final machining

100 % of aluminum shavings returned to foundry to be recycled

10 Years Ducati was owned by Texas Pacific Group '96-'06

11 Tears Ducati owned by Cagiva

1-2 Workers who accompany each bike down the assembly line

4-5 Workers who accompany a D16 down the assembly line

1.25 Hrs to assemble a 2 valve motor

3.5 Hrs to assemble a D16 motor

$7995 Retail for least expensive model-Monster 695

$72,500 Retail for D16

4-5 Minutes required to perform a "cold test", where an engine is
spun with an electric motor to check function

1200 rpm spun during cold test

6 % of bikes that failed quality control before TPG purchased
Ducati

1 % that currently fail

6 Hrs to assemble a complete D16

2 Hrs to assemble a 2 or 4 valve bike

40 Days to receive your new Ducati if ordered in Europe

120-160 Days to receive if ordered overseas

40K Total bikes produced in '07

1 million+ Total number of Cucciolo engines sold

100 Weight in kilos, hp, and torque of Terblanche's "dream"
motorcycle

1993 Year the Supermono went in production

67 Total number of Supermonos produced

$60,000 Approx. value of a 'Mono today

There you go. And investment of 15 minutes for the group. Hope everyone
enjoys! 

Steve

Nursing the digits

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