Sure...it's MCN....BUT

[desmoquattro]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/New-bikes/2010/February/feb1710-ducati-plans-gp-style-frameless-superbikes/?R=EPI-122220

Ducati plans GP-style frameless superbikes

Ducati is planning a ‘frameless’ future for its road-going superbikes â€" with the firm set to bet the farm on an aluminium version of its GP10’s revolutionary carbon design, MCN can reveal. 

A new patent application purports to protect the composite semi-monococque design â€" which bolts headstock to engine via a structural airbox rather than a frame â€" used on its race-winning GP9 and new GP10 MotoGP bikes. But multiple references to road-going and production concerns irrelevant to MotoGP confirm it has a broader brief â€" to safeguard the transition to road bikes of a technology Ducati clearly feels represents sports bikes’ next great leap.

As much as I love the trellis frame, this is exciting. Hope it's true.

[Le Piou]

Anything that is different than a DeltaBox-type frame is worth consideration, IMHO!