A very particular Panigale: Mr Motorcycles’ Ducati 899

There’s a definite trend to stripping the bodywork off modern Ducatis. And we’re all for it. The superbike engines may not have the retro elegance of a Triumph parallel twin or a BMW boxer, but there’s an intricate, H.R. Giger-esque mechanical quality to them. This 2014 899 Panigale comes from Mr Motorcycles of Montréal, in Canada’s Québec province. Mathieu Renaud started the shop as a part-time venture in 2012: “I was looking for something to do during the winter,” he says, “because I’d sold my snowmobile due to the lack of snow in Quebec. In two years I built three...