A new Ducati Supermono can be yours—for $56,000

I’ve just returned from a blissful week touring the back roads of south-eastern Australia. On some of the more twisty stretches of asphalt, I found myself wondering: what would be the ideal motorcycle for powering out of tight hairpins and down short straights? Even some of the 600 sportsbikes on those roads were looking a little unwieldy at times. I came to the conclusion it’d be a sporting single that’s light on weight and heavy on torque—something like the Roland Sands 450 SuperSingle or the Ducati Supermono Strada shown above. The original mid-90s Supermono was a limited-production design from Pierre...