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BIKES: Ducati 848 EVO Final Test Versus Triumph 675 - Part 3
With Fast Frank blasting the 999 out of turn 12 with the rear squirming as the Ducati hammered its horsepower to the ground, the 999’s rear end filling my view slid violently sideways.
Ducati 848 Final Test Versus Triumph 675
Fast Frank Shockley, Julian Taylor from All About Bikes, a Sportbike Track Time weekend, and the two hottest Euro middleweights on the planet wearing brand-new Bridgestone racing slicks. Add in a race-prepped Ducati 999 for on-board camera duties by my film crew from Speed.com and rolling south to Carolina Motorsports Park in South Carolina at the end of last year a mad weekend was clearly in the works.
With Fast Frank blasting the 999 out of turn 12 with the rear squirming as the Ducati hammered its horsepower to the ground, the 999’s rear end filling my view slid violently sideways. The flash of white in front of the Ducati told me Fast Frank was inches from the back of Julian’s rear wheel, and as the wily old fox took a short flight out of the seat, he quickly feathered the throttle and got both wheels back in line. I let go of the breath I was holding and stayed hard on the gas barreling into turn 14. Using the Ducati 848 EVO’s superior brakes, I slid by Frank and slipped in behind Julian, as the Triumph Daytona 675R he was riding scythed through the turn and started the run down to turn one.
Frank wasn’t having any of this nonsense, and using his superior riding skills out drove me off the turn. The 848 EVO was able to make quick work of the 999 down the long straight, though, and passing Frank again on the brakes I managed to tuck up on the rear of the 675 as we entered turn one. Twisting the throttle as hard as I dared, I began looking for a place to make a move on Julian before Frank wriggled between me and curb, throwing the 999 on its side for the next turn. Riding wheel to wheel at this pace for 20 minutes out on the Carolina Motorsports racetrack was the finale to a brilliant weekend of riding, testing, and comparing to see whether the Ducati 848EVO or the Triumph 675R gets the job done better at the racetrack.
With two days on the track, there was no hurry on the first morning to go out and brave the cold. As the usual crop of Stoner wannabes hit the floor in the chill morning, Julian and I made sure the bikes were all prepped, through tech, and ready. It was the first time I had seen the new Daytona 675R in person, and I was immediately attracted like a magpie to shiny objects to the Ohlins suspension. My 848 EVO was still running stock equipment, but since being worked over by Cogent Dynamics since the last track outing, it was not quite stock. Plus we had lost some significant weight removing all the road gear and gained some power with the pipes and the ECU, so stock was not the right word. With one machine being a 675cc inline three-cylinder, and the other an 848cc V-twin, there is no way to completely level the playing field, even if both bikes were original, but we felt happy neither bike had a unfair advantage as we went head-to-head.
Click the images below to see more pictures of the Ducati 848 EVO - Part 3:
With Fast Frank blasting the 999 out of turn 12 with the rear squirming as the Ducati hammered its horsepower to the ground, the 999’s rear end filling my view slid violently sideways. The flash of white in front of the Ducati told me Fast Frank was inches from the back of Julian’s rear wheel, and as the wily old fox took a short flight out of the seat, he quickly feathered the throttle and got both wheels back in line. I let go of the breath I was holding and stayed hard on the gas barreling into turn 14. Using the Ducati 848 EVO’s superior brakes, I slid by Frank and slipped in behind Julian, as the Triumph Daytona 675R he was riding scythed through the turn and started the run down to turn one.
Frank wasn’t having any of this nonsense, and using his superior riding skills out drove me off the turn. The 848 EVO was able to make quick work of the 999 down the long straight, though, and passing Frank again on the brakes I managed to tuck up on the rear of the 675 as we entered turn one. Twisting the throttle as hard as I dared, I began looking for a place to make a move on Julian before Frank wriggled between me and curb, throwing the 999 on its side for the next turn. Riding wheel to wheel at this pace for 20 minutes out on the Carolina Motorsports racetrack was the finale to a brilliant weekend of riding, testing, and comparing to see whether the Ducati 848EVO or the Triumph 675R gets the job done better at the racetrack.
With two days on the track, there was no hurry on the first morning to go out and brave the cold. As the usual crop of Stoner wannabes hit the floor in the chill morning, Julian and I made sure the bikes were all prepped, through tech, and ready. It was the first time I had seen the new Daytona 675R in person, and I was immediately attracted like a magpie to shiny objects to the Ohlins suspension. My 848 EVO was still running stock equipment, but since being worked over by Cogent Dynamics since the last track outing, it was not quite stock. Plus we had lost some significant weight removing all the road gear and gained some power with the pipes and the ECU, so stock was not the right word. With one machine being a 675cc inline three-cylinder, and the other an 848cc V-twin, there is no way to completely level the playing field, even if both bikes were original, but we felt happy neither bike had a unfair advantage as we went head-to-head.
Click the images below to see more pictures of the Ducati 848 EVO - Part 3:
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