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The Ducati 900 MHE (Mike Hailwood evoluzione) is a Ducati mythical, designed by Pierre Terblanche to pay tribute to Mike Hailwood (aka Mike the Bike), and for sale exclusively on the website of Ducati only on 1 January 2000 at 0:00. Published only 2,000 copies, it will be the symbol of transition from Ducati to do new era, namely the year 2000 well, but the resumption of the mark by the investment fund TPG.

This bike was sold at a price of 100 000 francs (about 15 000 €).

The rarity of the object, and the importance of the event was certainly the time to attract collectors. So after 8 years, they made a good deal?

The answer lies on the Internet: while the MH 900 e are quite rare in France, but not necessarily in other European countries.

Results: I managed to find on the same site no less than 7 MH 900th, whose prices range from € 10 190 and 15 399 €.

It will therefore have to be patient before this masterpiece is finally being recognized, and that speculation is paid.

In the meantime, I'd go well in my garage.

Pierre Terblanche, director of design DUCATI past 10 years, has left the company bolognese to mount his own design studio.

His arrival at Ducati has coïncidée with the acquisition of DUCATI to CAGIVA by the U.S. investment fund TPG (Texas Pacific Group).

Originally from South Africa, he had previously worked at CRC (Cagiva Research Center) under the leadership of Massimo Tamburini. His achievements have not all been unanimity among the general public because of a design without cocession. If the Multistrada has not shocked by his style is that it opened a new category: the trails hypersportifs. The renovation design of the range hypersportive of the mark, the 916 it was a real outcry. The replacement, the 999, failed to mention the masterpiece created by Tamburini. The student failed to exceed the master ... The last project hypersportif of the mark has been assigned to Gianfranco Fabbro, who has obviously been instructed to reconnect with the design of late as 916.

His latest projects, Sportclassics are more consensual, and Terblanche was successful exercise of neoclassicism and modernizing the style typical of many years DUCATI 70.

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