What happens when an army of bikers invades an Italian resort Jonathan Hawkins, CNN • Updated 15th November 2022 Misano, Italy (CNN) — In the Emilia Romagna region, on Italy's Adriatic coast, summers are languid, sultry, and full of opportunities to dine, drink, dance, swim, relax and replenish. For a few days at the end of July, however, this scenic corner of one of the world's most beautiful countries experiences an invasion. From all over the world, a red-clad army converges on the towns and villages around the famous racing circuit at Misano, most of them astride rumbling, rasping motorcycles. This is World Ducati Week, and this year some 80,000 enthusiasts were bringing the noise. A Ducati is to motorcycle lovers what a Ferrari is to car aficionados. Like its four-wheeled compatriot, the two-wheeled Italian brand has made its name creating loud, fast, uncompromising, occasionally eccentric and often achingly elegant machines. But this gathering of Ducatisti, as Ducati enthusiasts are known, is about much more than just motorcycles; they are here to have a party, and the whole community is ready to welcome them. This is not your typical "biker" crowd, either. An event on the scale of this in the United States might conjure up images of beards, tattoos, leather jackets and rock music, but this is a much more Italian affair. As the sun rose over the Adriatic onto this year's event, its rays glanced over luxury yachts in nearby Cattolica and Gabicce Mare, and found the Ducatisti sipping cappuccinos at waterfront cafes, before guiding their growling machines on a short and gentle cruise to the nearby Marco Simoncelli racing circuit. At the track, literally thousands of Ducatis, old and new, glided into the parking lot and nestled alongside one another. One by one, their riders dismounted and gazed around them, grinning widely in the already scorching Italian sunshine at row after row after row of Italian motorcycles. Male and female, young and not so young, perhaps the most striking thing about this group was just how far many had come to be here. Ducati claimed that visitors to the 2022 event, the 10th World Ducati Week, had traveled from 84 countries, a statistic that was easy to believe on the ground. Rebekah, dressed in a bright pink t-shirt and a straw hat, had ridden all the way to Misano from Regensburg, a medieval city that sits on the banks of the Danube in Bavaria, Germany. Her club, which she told CNN is "the greatest group outside Italy," had taken two days to make the trip. "It's the great Ducati family, around the world," she smiled.
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What happens when an army of bikers invades an Italian resort
Jonathan Hawkins, CNN • Updated 15th November 2022
Misano, Italy (CNN) — In the Emilia Romagna region, on Italy's Adriatic coast, summers are languid, sultry, and full of opportunities to dine, drink, dance, swim, relax and replenish. For a few days at the end of July, however, this scenic corner of one of the world's most beautiful countries experiences an invasion. From all over the world, a red-clad army converges on the towns and villages around the famous racing circuit at Misano, most of them astride rumbling, rasping motorcycles. This is World Ducati Week, and this year some 80,000 enthusiasts were bringing the noise.
A Ducati is to motorcycle lovers what a Ferrari is to car aficionados. Like its four-wheeled compatriot, the two-wheeled Italian brand has made its name creating loud, fast, uncompromising, occasionally eccentric and often achingly elegant machines. But this gathering of Ducatisti, as Ducati enthusiasts are known, is about much more than just motorcycles; they are here to have a party, and the whole community is ready to welcome them. This is not your typical "biker" crowd, either. An event on the scale of this in the United States might conjure up images of beards, tattoos, leather jackets and rock music, but this is a much more Italian affair.
As the sun rose over the Adriatic onto this year's event, its rays glanced over luxury yachts in nearby Cattolica and Gabicce Mare, and found the Ducatisti sipping cappuccinos at waterfront cafes, before guiding their growling machines on a short and gentle cruise to the nearby Marco Simoncelli racing circuit. At the track, literally thousands of Ducatis, old and new, glided into the parking lot and nestled alongside one another. One by one, their riders dismounted and gazed around them, grinning widely in the already scorching Italian sunshine at row after row after row of Italian motorcycles.
Male and female, young and not so young, perhaps the most striking thing about this group was just how far many had come to be here. Ducati claimed that visitors to the 2022 event, the 10th World Ducati Week, had traveled from 84 countries, a statistic that was easy to believe on the ground. Rebekah, dressed in a bright pink t-shirt and a straw hat, had ridden all the way to Misano from Regensburg, a medieval city that sits on the banks of the Danube in Bavaria, Germany. Her club, which she told CNN is "the greatest group outside Italy," had taken two days to make the trip. "It's the great Ducati family, around the world," she smiled.