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Why Ducati took the Desmo out of the 2026 Monster. For seventy years, every Monster ran Desmodromic valves. The 896 runs spring valves instead, and the purists are loud about it. Here's the part they skip. Even the reviewers admit it: ride the spring engine and a Desmo back to back, and you can't tell which is which. Desmo was always more about knowing you had it than feeling it. What you do feel is unchanged, the L-twin heartbeat, and 175 kg that make it the lightest Monster ever. So what do you actually lose? Nothing you'd feel. Just the badge that says Desmo. For some riders that's the whole point, and the Desmo 937 is still on our floor, your call. The badge was never the point. The way it makes you ride still is. Monster 896+. 111 hp. 175 kg. From $15,695 CAD, from 1.99% APR over 36 months. Alberta: 5% GST only. More riding, fewer shop visits, valve service now every 45,000 km. Comment NUMBERS and we'll send you the honest five-year cost of ownership, service, finance, all of it. Just the math. #Monster896 #DucatiMonster #NakedBike #Monsteristi #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife

Every motocross bike uses springs. The Ducati doesn't. It's called Desmodromic timing. Every other bike on the gate uses springs to close its valves, the Desmo450 closes them mechanically, the same system Ducati has raced for seven decades. Springs can float at high rpm and lose control of the valve; Desmo doesn't, so the engine keeps breathing clean right at the top of the range where a 450 actually lives. Ducati took this from a race program to a production bike in under two years. The Desmo is the part that makes it a Ducati, and the part nobody else in motocross has. Desmo450 MX. 450 single. 104.8 kg. From $14,495 CAD. #Desmo450MX #DucatiCorse #Motocross #MX #DucatiOffRoad #Desmodromic #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife

You will never use all 209 horsepower. Buy it anyway. Be honest. On any road you can legally ride, you'll use maybe 60% of what this engine makes, the rest lives at the track. So why pay for power you'll rarely touch? Same reason you don't buy a watch just to tell the time. Roll on in second and the Desmosedici Stradale pulls like the road tilted downhill. The counter-rotating crank makes 187 kg steer like a bike 20 kg lighter, that part you feel on every corner. It's a MotoGP engine with plates. You're not buying the top speed. You're buying the first inch of throttle. Panigale V4 S. 209 hp. 187 kg. From $38,295 CAD, from 1.99% APR over 36 months. Alberta: no PST. This was never the sensible choice. You knew that walking in. #PanigaleV4S #Panigale #DucatiSuperbike #DesmosediciStradale #V4 #MotoGP #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife

The new Monster engine quietly retunes itself as you ride. It's called Intake Variable Timing. Most engines pick one compromise, smooth down low or strong up top. IVT shifts the intake timing continuously, so it never has to choose. In traffic on Macleod Trail it's calm and predictable; open it up on 1A and it pulls clean to redline. Same engine, two personalities, no buttons to press. 111 hp that's friendly when you want it and sharp when you don't. The clever part isn't the number, it's that you never feel it working. Monster 896+. 111 hp. 175 kg. From $15,695 CAD, from 1.99% APR over 36 months. Alberta: 5% GST only. Comment NUMBERS and we'll send you the honest five-year ownership breakdown. Just the math. #Monster896 #DucatiMonster #IVT #NakedBike #Monsteristi #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife

The Panigale for people who actually ride them. The V4 is a track weapon you survive. This is the Panigale you use, every corner, every weekend, no chiropractor on Monday. 120 hp in 176 kg, and reviewers keep saying the same thing: it wants you to play with it, not prove yourself to it. 93 Nm of torque, the most in its class by a third, so it drives off any corner without hunting for a downshift. Brembo M50 brakes with less bike to stop, testers feel more confident here than on the V4. You'd rather use 100% of this than own 60% of something you can't. That isn't settling. That's knowing yourself. Panigale V2 S 896. 120 hp. 176 kg. From $22,595 CAD, from 1.99% APR over 36 months. Alberta: no PST. Comment NUMBERS and we'll send you the honest cost of owning one. Just the math. #PanigaleV2 #Panigale #DucatiSuperbike #V2 #MadeInItaly #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife

Most dirt-bike traction control guesses. This one measures. The Desmo450 has the first closed-loop traction control in off-road. Other systems estimate wheel spin from engine data; this one reads the real slip of the rear wheel from sensors, then acts only when it needs to. Out of a wet rut at Wild Rose, the rear hooks up instead of lighting up, you feel drive, not a nanny. Settable on the bars across four levels, or tuned in the app. Testers measured faster laps with it on, and less arm-pump by the end of the moto. That's the whole point of measuring instead of guessing. Desmo450 MX. 450 single. 104.8 kg. From $14,495 CAD. #Desmo450MX #DucatiCorse #Motocross #MX #TractionControl #DucatiOffRoad #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife

Your superbike makes downforce. Did you know that? The wings on the V4 S aren't decoration. At speed they press the front tyre into the road, the same trick that keeps a MotoGP bike's front from lifting under power. More front grip means you get on the throttle earlier and harder out of a corner without the front going light. You won't see the wings working; you'll feel the front tyre refusing to give up. The faster you go, the more the road holds you down. It's the closest thing to a MotoGP bike you can put a plate on. Panigale V4 S. 209 hp. 187 kg. From $38,295 CAD, from 1.99% APR over 36 months. Alberta: no PST. Comment NUMBERS and we'll send you the honest cost of owning one. Just the math. #PanigaleV4S #Panigale #Aerodynamics #MotoGP #DucatiSuperbike #DesmosediciStradale #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife

The lighter Panigale stops better than the fast one. Same top-tier Brembo M50 monobloc calipers you'd want on a superbike, asked to stop 176 kg instead of the V4's 187, physics does the rest. Lighter mass means less heat, less fade, and a front end that settles faster when you trail the brake into a corner. Late into a downhill hairpin you squeeze, and the bike just sheds speed, calm and flat. You brake later because the bike lets you. 120 hp gets the headlines. The way it stops and turns is what you feel every ride. Lighter isn't lesser. Lighter is the point. Panigale V2 S 896. 120 hp. 176 kg. From $22,595 CAD, from 1.99% APR over 36 months. Alberta: no PST. #PanigaleV2 #Panigale #Brembo #DucatiSuperbike #V2 #BlackfootMotosports #DucatiCalgary #YYC #AlbertaMoto #DucatiLife