While the new bike will look "deceptively" like the GP0 - the "experimental bike" rolled out at the Valencia test last November - under the fairing it is "90% new", with changes to the chassis, tank, seat support, engine castings and swingarm.
In most details, the bike is closely related to Ducati's Multistrada model, with which it shares steering geometry, suspension travel, swingarm rear suspension, wheelbase and seat height.
The 2013 Speed Triple SE features a restrained Matte Graphite color scheme offset by a frame and swingarm painted in tasteful matte blue.
The system, called Ducati Electronic Suspension, incorporates an inverted 48 millimeter Ohlins fork in the front and an Ohlins monoshock and single-sided aluminum swingarm at the rear.
For instance, not only are the steering head angle and the swingarm pivot adjustable, but the bike can be adapted to track conditions by shifting its engine position up or down and forward or back in the frame.
A chain-drive, not a shaft, transfers power to the rear wheel, which is suspended on a triangulated swingarm.
The long rear swingarm and twin shock absorbers give a decent cruising ride -- there isn't excessive travel and it's not sloppy.
At the rear, stiffer springs, a new aluminum swingarm and a redesigned linkage for the suspension all benefit on-road behavior, though there is now an inch less ground clearance.
What Preziosi would say was that the GP12 retains the conventional twin-spar aluminium frame with carbon swingarm seen at the end of 2011, with the complete carbon-fibre chassis seemingly gone for good.
The tubular swingarm also served as the exhaust pipe.
