Certainly this is a rare machine with only 309 produced worldwide in 2001. There is no indication in the auction about when the lights were fitted to this bike. All US examples came without lights and stands however all the wiring remained in place. Most of the 996R’s were sold over the internet when release on 12 Sept 2000. Perhaps the most obvious change was the vents being removed from the fairings which gave the bike a smoother look. Most of the chassis was shared with the SPS model of the previous year except for the front brakes which used newer 4 piston Brembo calipers and thinner discs. For the following year this engine was increased to 999 with a shorter stroke and the 998 engine was used across the range without the sand cast cases and deep sump. Another new feature on the engine was the deep sump which had been used in the racing engines since 1998 along with sand cast crank cases, but now appears in a production (albeit limited) model. All this allowed the engine to produce 135bhp which was up from 123bhp in the SPS. With higher lift cams along with a straighter inlet port.
It has less than 150 miles! This bike was rather important in the development of the Ducati line as it was the first bike to use the newly designed Testastretta engine which had a new design of head allowing 40mm inlet and 33mm exhaust valves, both of which were bigger that the previous 996SPS.
Here we have a 996R from 2001 which hasn’t even been run in. Take a careful look at this bike and you will realise why the 916/996/998 family has been voted most beautiful bike more than once. Links in this post have been updated to point to similar bikes available to bid on eBay. The Australian rider landed heavily on his shoulder as Laconi tumbled over his bike before crashing to the tarmac himself and although he was able to hitch a ride back to the pits on the pillion of Colin Edwards' Castrol Honda at races end, he was pronounced unfit to race by series doctors shortly after.Īlthough devastated by not being able to race in the final outing of 2001, Bayliss' double victory at Assen and the strict imposition of team orders within the Infostrada camp now begin to earn their worth as Edwards eats into Bayliss' insurmountable points lead.× Warning!This post is in our archives.
Ducati Infostrada's Troy Bayliss will not add to his 369 points tally at all in the final round of the 2001 World Superbike Championship at Imola on Sunday afternoon after fracturing his right collarbone in his penultimate lap accident with Regis Laconi in the first of Sunday's doubleheader at the undulating 4.390km circuit that is playing host to its first ever World Superbike race meeting.Īccording to bbc.co.uk Bayliss sustained the fracture when his silver liveried machine was hit by Laconi's Aprilia coming out of the second Rivazza corner on lap 20 of the 21-lap race as the two battled ferociously with eventual winner Ruben Xaus.
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