Category Archives: Desmodromic

MANY REASONS FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS OF MEDIA SILENCE ON THIS WEBSITE Regular visitors of course might have noticed that the last update on this news page was almost two years ago. Reasons for this are many: Kind of unwillingness … Continue reading →

The physical Desmo-collection of models and heads is complete (April 2015). For friendly prices and kind of sponsored by Ducati Parts Online : http://ducatiparts-online.com/, I acquired a Testastretta head, camshafts of the Panigale and a Ducati Monster carter with gearbox … Continue reading →

Domain name and a new site under construction Very first Desmo in High Performance I.C. engines discovered! December 8, 2014 we discovered in the Netherlands the 1908 Ariès VT 1 cil. 4 valve desmodromic engine. Reason to transfer the Ariès … Continue reading →

Updates in Photo3 Two (of 4) open places under the photo3 button are now filled. One with the use of the desmo-principle in two other applications than in ICE (Internal Combustion Engines). The other page is filled with the subject … Continue reading →

Hurrah!!! I don’t need to change from provider and migrate the site, since my provider raised my sitespace from 10 to 50 MB. Photo3 will become gradually available. I don’t have to squeeze pics and text anymore when I want … Continue reading →

October 28 Y2k5 “Desmodromology” is already 5 years alive and kicking. Almost 50.000 hits during that period of time is encouraging. To celebrate this I decided to give the site a face lift by changing the letter type to “Verdana”. … Continue reading →

The Desmoprinciple proved to be very successful in the Moto GP, the highest level of competition. Ducati’s debut year with the Marlboro Ducati Desmosedici was very impressive: 177 GP points for Loris Capirossi (4th. place) and Troy Bayliss (6th.) with … Continue reading →

Oldest ‘News’ from my former website (http://members.chello.nl/~wgj.jansen/) Attention: Finally I succeeded in actuating my second account. The 10 extra MB are used to store some desmofilms. In MOTO CICLISMO d’Epoca nr. 8-9 August/September 2001 great article (8 pages) on 100 … Continue reading →