The Evoluzione

Ofcourse, all this would not be possible without Ing. Fabio Taglione, but still the MH900e, one of the real gems in the history of Ducati, is very much the creation of a man born in 1956 in South Africa, Pierre Terblanche.
Terblanche joined Ducati already in 1989, working for Massimo Tamburini. In 1992 he, himself, gave birth to another priceless piece of motorcycle history in the Ducati Supermono.
In the back of Terblanche´s mind always lurked the idea of making a modern version of the come-back bike of Mike Hailwood.
In 1998 the first version of what was to come, was shown as a concept bike at the Intermot in München. It featured a number of novelties which later regretably were cancelled, no surprise, before production, such as a small tv-monitor managing the rear view.
The MH900e was the first bike ever to be auctioned from the factory on the internet. It was first announced as a 1000 limited number version, but due to the great interest this was later changed to become 2000 (thank God). In fact 2010 machines were produced according to official statistics (in typical italian maner).
The first machines came out to the public in May yr 2000 to great joy of all real motorcycle fans.

So what is then the MH900e? Well, try and spend a few hours in the garage with her and you´re lost, forever in love. The true blend of simplicity and exquisity hits you like anothing else. Such care for detail yet keeping the classic lines of the original, classic, idea can only be described as a masterpiece.
Still, it is not a love that comes without going through the courtship of a number of other creations, more easily likeable, first. Only by matureness and experiance of what motorcycling is truelly all about you will find your piece of mind in the beauty of the MH900e.
I had to go through a number of Japanese bikes, Aprilia, onto Ducati's ST2, 748R, 750 Sport and the 851 (some of which still holds a position in both my heart and garage) before finding the light.

Enough! Let's present her. The pearl of pearls, the gem of gems, the Ducati MH900e!