Octane TV

Not only does Mr. Leno have a warehouse full of every sort of car or bike you'd ever like to get your hands on - and likely some you've never heard of - he also gets offered a ton of cool stuff to drive or ride, too. "Hey, Jay, fancy a spin in the Veyron for a week?", is not a strange thing for the talk show host to hear.

Hence his time spent with an $80,000 Ducati Desmosedici RR. (Er, so what else comes with that exactly? Nothing? Just the bike? Got it...)

The bike weights just 377lbs, will rev to 14,000 rpm and has 197hp; as Leno says, it's the bike equivalent of a McLaren F1. Apart from all the road-going stuff that it has to sport - turn signals, mirrors etc - this is basically the race-spec bike.

Which begs the question - where, and how (given mortal riding limitations) are you ever going to use all of that performance? London Times