All Moto-GP'd Up and No Place to Go (Mortals, Money, and Unbelievably Capable Machines)
Ducati Streetfighter V-4 SP (Credit: Ducati Motorholding S.p.A.) The photo you see above is the new Ducati Streetfighter SP in action. Like the Panigale V4, it's a technological and handling tour de force with unbelievable capability. It also costs $35,500. Achingly beautiful, it can be made even lighter and more responsive with $5,000 dollars in titanium exhaust and for another five grand, you can get gorgeous magnesium wheels. For that money, I could buy almost any motorcycle and many used sports cars that would be plenty capable, and every single one of them more capable than me. Disclaimer! I've had the booming aftermarket stereo that cost half-a-year's salary. I put the most idiotic purchases on an already-bloated credit card. I've read the ads and thought material possessions could change my life for the wrong reasons. I wrecked a car when I didn't have the skills to back up my ham-handed inputs. In other words, I was an idiotic male, insecure from growing u