What did you do today?

[DRKWNG]

Do I correctly perceive gear driven cams?...

Yes.  Belts are gone, as is the dry clutch and trellis frame.  The one good change IMO is that they will all have alloy tanks.

[teddy037.3]

punch line for that video should've been "checamate"

 


also, I see that NX still hasn't bothered with helical animations for their assy level fancypants

[freeflydive]

punch line for that video should've been "checamate"

Well played sir...

[MadDuck]

Do I correctly perceive gear driven cams?...

Chain driven.

[MadDuck]

Mac...Here's a 3d animation of the engine to help your diagnostics of all the glitches to come 

Ducati 1199 Panigale Superquadro engine 3D animation

Nice vid.

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Chain driven.

That's what I thought initially, but I didn't see a chain on the cam sprockets in the vid...

[MadDuck]

That's what I thought initially, but I didn't see a chain on the cam sprockets in the vid...

The earlier write ups kept bring up the chain drive. And, as you so state, those are sprockets and not gears. For some reason the chain is not in the picture. 

[freeflydive]

Here are a few first look articles on the 1199.

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/619/11484/Motorcycle-Article/2012-Ducati-1199-Panigale-First-Look.aspx

http://www.cycleworld.com/2011/11/07/2012-ducati-1199-panigale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2012-ducati-1199-panigale

http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/bikes/2012-ducati-1199-panigale/

And behold....the tricolore...I think the colors are a Mac-special  

[teddy037.3]

For some reason the chain is not in the picture.  

I'm assuming much here, but:

if ducati still uses NX as their CAD/CAM platform, at least as of ver.6, the animation control can't do chains or belts following sprocket/gear/whatever teeth.

if they were recording all their assy animations at one time, but then editing down clips, and they wanted show the valves in motion or something, they may have just hidden the chain in the assy.

but there is a chain there:

[MadDuck]

I'm assuming much here, but:

if ducati still uses NX as their CAD/CAM platform, at least as of ver.6, the animation control can't do chains or belts following sprocket/gear/whatever teeth.

if they were recording all their assy animations at one time, but then editing down clips, and they wanted show the valves in motion or something, they may have just hidden the chain in the assy.

but there is a chain there:

The main drive is chain but the cams are geared together.  That's the ticket.

[MadDuck]

And behold....the tricolore...I think the colors are a Mac-special  

True dat.

[teddy037.3]

The main drive is chain but the cams are geared together.  That's the ticket.

I'm still in shock that I could contribute somthing techy-related here 

[freeflydive]

Here is the Ducati video highlighting the superquadro engine. The chain-driven camshaft is discussed at 2:26.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=r35gheoGCbc

[MadDuck]

I'm still in shock that I could contribute somthing techy-related here 

You, sir, continually seem to want to understate your grasp and knowledge of things tech, but some of us know better.      No worries.   

[MadDuck]

My heart skipped when I heard the first throttle note in the 1199 video...

Ducati Superbike 1199 Panigale - Checkmate.

Your bike sounds no less bad ass than that one. In fact, I would wager that yours sounds even badder.