The museum has the slightly annoying practice of illuminating the bikes on show brightly from below, leaving the exhibits themselves only dimly lit from above. This makes it difficult to take a decent photo. Unless your skills as a photographer far exceed mine, anyway.
We also had a ride out to Misano, where there was a trackday on... including this V4 going out for a good trundle... We watched him picking the gravel out of it a while later... fairings, bar, engine casings etc. looking worse for wear Some lovely bikes there, top for me was this 999 with SC Projects exhausts that drowned EVERYTHING else out, and a gorgeous Panigale with retro paint... which I want to shamelessly copy! The rest of the museum was pretty cool, we didn't get time for a factory tour as Hattie had to get her plane back to UK. Some lovely bikes in there and worth noting that DOC members get free entry and a discount in the gift shop / factory shop! As a Scrambler owner I enjoyed the hipster shop too... And we couldn't visit the area without seeing Tavulia...
I'm off to do the MotoGiro at the end of the month. This year it starts and finishes from the Ducati factory, so looking forward to a trip round the museum (plus many others over the week). As the Mike Hailwood isn't there I'll content myself with the TT2 next to it that I used to follow round Europe in the mid 80's.
The TT is beautiful and TBH I also found the 851, 888, 916 and 999 far more exciting than I expected. The level of handcrafted detail is amazing, and you see developments like Foggy's bike having a flat tank and Corser's having a massive chin relief set into it. You really get a sense of the bikes evolving as they raced.
