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Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. is an Italian company based in Bologna, Italy. The company is owned by the German car manufacturer Audi, and Audi itself belongs to the Volkswagen concern.
In 1926, Antonio Cavalieri Ducati and his three sons Adriano, Marcello and Bruno Cavalieri Ducati founded their company in Bologna, which produced vacuum tubes, capacitors and other radio components.
In 1935, they were successful enough to allow the construction of a new factory. Production was maintained during World War II, despite the fact that the Ducati factory was repeatedly targeted by Allied bombing.
Meanwhile, at the small Turin company SIATA, Aldo Farinelli started designing a small pushrod motor for mounting on bicycles, called the "Cucciolo" (Italian for "puppy", referring to the characteristic exhaust sound). The first Cucciola were self-available for fitting to standard bikes by the buyer, but the Ducati brothers soonbought out these small engines and released complete motorboat kits for sale.
In the 1960s, Ducati earned its place in motorcycle history by producing the fastest 250cc road bike available at the time, the Mach 1. In the 1970s, Ducati began producing high-capacity V-twins.
Ducati is best known for its high-performance motorbikes featuring large, large-capacity, four-stroke V-twins with a desmodromic valve design. Ducati refers to this configuration as L-twin because one cyliner is vertical and the other is horizontal, making it look like the letter "L".
The modern Ducati remains one of the dominant performance bikes available today, partly because of the desmodromic valve design that has been in use for around 50 years."

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