World’s most powerful single-cylinder Engine- Superquadro Mono
Leave it to the Italians to add some panache to a regular single-cylinder engine configuration and make it outrageous!
From dominating MotoGP, world superbikes and other motorcycle racing championships to being at the forefront of road-going superbikes and other models – Ducati is currently in a league of its own and enjoying unprecedented success across its all ventures be it racing or selling its road-going models.
It is quite literally on top of the world or at least the motorcycle world, being a force to be reckoned with in MotoGP or superbike racing wasn’t enough for the Italian marquee’s engineers and decision-makers.
They went ahead and commissioned a single-cylinder engine that would produce power figures that are unheard of by any single-cylinder motor- so, the nutcases at Borgo Panigale got to work and produced exactly that – a single-cylinder engine that is the most powerful single-cylinder engine in the world.
Meet the superquadro Mono.
Superquadro Mono is the world’s most powerful single-cylinder motor – it is truly a piece of modern engineering marvel – showcasing what is possible and what might be possible in the future of Two-wheeled maniacs of the automotive world.
This is not the first time Ducati has designed a single-cylinder engine – in the early 1990s Ducati engineers Pierre Terblanche, Claudio Domenicali and Massimo Bordi Designed a single-cylinder racer called the SuperMono but Ducati took a break from super mono’s for more than three decades, till the unveiling of the superquadro Mono their latest foray into the single cylinder category.
For a company that is on top of the world –whatever they do now has to be something special and outrageous and that is exactly what they have done. A Single-cylinder engine that takes the crown of the most powerful single-cylinder motor in the world and folks at Ducati wouldn’t have settled for anything less.
The superquadro Mono is a 659cc that borrows Ducati’s trademark desmodromic valve technology from the more powerful Ducati models – which results in this single-cylinder thumper reaching speeds of over 10,000 rpm – which also makes it the highest revving single-cylinder engine.
The desmodromic system isn’t the only tech it borrows from its elder siblings – the cylinder and head design come directly from the 1299 Superleggera motor and other goodies such as the combustion chamber and exhaust valves are the same. basically, Ducati took the 1285cc superquadro twin minus a cylinder.
Superquadro Mono makes 85bhp with a racing exhaust and 77hp in its stock form, also limiting the revs to a mere 9,750rpm – Superquadro Mono is employed in the all-new Ducati Hypermotard 698 Mono.
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