Custom Ducati 749: Radical Ducati's 7½ Sportiva

Fully-faired sportbikes don’t really get my motor running, no matter how exotic. But if I had to put an Italian stallion in my garage, it’d be one of Ducati’s mid-displacement models. So I like the way Radical Ducati are thinking. Their latest build, the 7½ Sportiva, is a Ducati 749R given a retro flavor and put on a diet. And being Radical Ducati, they’ve torn the bike down and modified virtually every component apart from the trellis main frame and fuel tank. The rear subframe is a custom aluminum job, and the bodywork is a mix of fiberglass and carbon....