There was once a time when Desmodromic valve technology was cutting edge and a necessary competitive advantage for Ducati in racing. The Desmo head doesn't use a valve spring to return the valve to ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

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Think Ducati engines and desmo valves are the immediate connect. For the uninitiated, this is a different valve control system where instead of conventional valve springs, the valvetrain is controlled ...

Ducati has made public the new Variable Valve Timing technology we wrote about only two days ago. While one of the small mysteries was whether the D from the DVT acronym stood for Ducati, Dynamic or ...

Desmodromic valves are mostly a thing of the past, but one Italian motorcycle company continues to soldier on with the technology, and we're curious why. Kyle Hyatt Former news and features editor ...