MotoGP<\/a> outing for Ducati at the Valencia finale and sensationally won the race.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
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He competed in two full seasons in MotoGP with Ducati in 2003 and 2004.<\/p>\n
A final World Superbike title followed in 2008, again with Ducati, with Bayliss renewing this association briefly in 2015 as an injury stand-in at the Australian and Thai rounds.<\/p>\n
Bayliss, a keen motocross rider, has now added a Ducati model to his collection he says he first asked the brand about 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cAction coming soon,\u201d he wrote on his social media channels, as he unboxed a Ducati Desmo450 MX.<\/p>\n
\u201cAround 20 or so years ago, I said to the big cheese [management] \u2018be cool if you guys made an MX bike\u2019.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting patiently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ducati\u2019s Desmo 450 MX boasts a 450hp engine and lightweight chassis, which French rider Dylan Ferrandis said was the best frame in motocross.<\/p>\n
It is on sale in the UK for just over \u00a311,000.<\/p>\n
Bayliss has suffered numerous injuries this year due to motocross riding accidents.<\/p>\n
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He broke his left ankle earlier this year, before suffering fractures to seven ribs, a punctured lung and a collarbone injury in a crash in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Superbike legend Troy Bayliss has revealed he has taken delivery of a bike he has \u201cpatiently\u201d waited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-339828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ducati","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}