Ben Spies Rides The First 2025 Ducati V4 S In The U.S | MotoAmerica

Personal I think today's bikes are built for pussys.

Such a shame we never got to see Ben in his prime healthy in Moto GP. I really think there were many more wins on the table.

Why is he clutching his down-shifts? Doesn't that bike have an UP & DOWN quick shifter?

Far to costly.

Roger Lee on the commentary. Spies on the bike. Kudos

Yeees!
It’s awesome to see the good Ben riding again!!
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It’s the 998 all over again. Love it or hate it. Or the 999? Whichever.

I would prefer a more insanely difficult bike to ride. lol

What's up with Paolo Ciabatti? How is he involved in road bikes now?

Looks like hes riding a pocket bike. Great to see elbows out there...

Still have my autographed HJC lid replica from his debut year in MotoGP. Looks almost exactly like the one he is wearing here. He was legitimately USAs last chance at winning a MotoGP title.

Beautiful beast 😊

MotoAmerica is sooo low rent now. Nothing is high end. Not even the racing. No one in the stands, no one "up and coming", no one even close to moving to Europe to challenge the Spaniards, Greg White still calling races and painfully announcing every sponsor instead of who's leading who and differing lap times and anything else resembling actual racing. The No. 1 plate held by Gagne is barely in the top 10 in any race and Josh Herrin (!?) is leading the points on a bike that has no business being in the series. V-4's and inline 4's have no business racing against each other, it's an unfair advantage. No Kawi, no Aprilia, no KTM, only dated tech from Yamaha, Suzuki, a crap Honda and even the Beemer. And what's up with this video? The sound editing is horrible, dead air everywhere, the stands are empty, who actually cares, other than the factories (do they really?), and families.
Feel free to hire a Euro marketing firm and maybe then someone will care, eventually. Don't get me wrong, I've supported AMA and now MotoAmerica for years, heck, I even bought the wife and I VIP tix to the Shelton race to see Danilo Petrucci, a real racer (only to get spanked by Gagne on an inline 4, no less), but he of multiple MotoGP wins was in NW Washington !!! Why wasn't that hyped for increased ticket sales? That dude is an awesome rider. Never been anywhere close to that tiny little hole-in-the-wall track, and he didn't embarrass himself. I love Wayne Rainey, terrific story, inspiration, great rider, champion and do-it-all kinda guy, but he aint getting any help or love.

The VFR with a conventional swingarm. I wish they would have done a better job with the audio.

Did anyone get that lap time 😳😂

How come Ben still uses clutch to downshift instead of the auto blip

The bike looks like a scorpion

I met him at a Pirelli SBK test at Kyalami in 2008. He was shy but didn't give attitude when a star-struck fan asked him for a photo and a chat during his lunchtime. And then he absolutely smashed it on that R1!

Which circuit is it??

Where are the elbows?!😱😱😱

Former US and world SBK champion 🏆,, great video ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ from northern Ireland awesome motorcycle

Went to wsbk, didn't know all the tracks, and won the championship. He should have stayed there.We missed out on epic battles, I'm sure.

Quanto mi mancano i periodi dove era in sbk ❤

😂😂😂 Ben Spies Blipper downshift no Clutsch 😂😂👌✊

Surprised he didn’t throw it down the rd.

Awesome

is GP shift pattern stock on the new ducati?!?

LEGEND!

Ugliest ducati ever created since desmodisici

This bike is Amazing! I am so happy when I see both lights on and all balanced and symmetrical!!

Ducati

That featureless sheetmetal muffler cover is not the kind of thing you expect to see on a $50k motorcycle.
It should be embossed with some kind of logo but you might have to pay an extra $10k for a good looking muffler.

elbowz! love to see it!

I had the privilege of seeing so many great racers in their early AMA days at Mid-Ohio- Spies, Edwards, Hayden, Bostrom, Duhamel, Chandler, Ru$$ell, AND the guys that came back from other series like Hodgson, Both Troys (Bayliss and Corser), too many to even remember them all! It tore me up when MotoAmerica took over from DMG and decided to quit racing at Mid-Ohio. 10 years later (this summer) MotoAmerica announced the return to Mid-Ohio and I was excited for about 2 minutes and then I realized that I really didn't care. I watch all the races that I can on TV but there hasn't been any group of riders that excites me enough to go to the track in years (especially at over double the admission price from when they left!!). I'm just glad that I have so many happy memories from back in the day!!

#11!!

What happened to this guy?

I see him using the clutch at down shifts. Doesn’t has it have a blipper?

easy testing

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Ben could be the first person in the USA to go into limp mode on a 2025 Duck in 2024

He’ll probably fall off yet again.

Dude was the Johnny Manziel of MotoGP

They never should have sent him from AMA to MotoGP that was too bad with John for him. After one or two years in MotoGP you never heard from the man again. When you win almost every race in ama then go to MotoGP and get smoked it kills you mentally😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Are they gonna use this new swingarm to V4R in wsbk?

Announcer please explain the difference between grip and mechanical grip.

Finially back to the wheel

Motor mouths always wanna talk, when we want to listen to the engine 😢.

Removing the single-sided swing arm is a marketing mistake IMHO.

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