Once a year, Desmo Owners Clubs across the planet roll out on the same day for Ducati's We Ride as One — one brand, one community, thousands of bikes moving together.
In Ducati's 100th-anniversary year, Gotham gave the day the title it deserved: the Ride of the Century, Centenario Edition. And the city showed up.
More than 150 members RSVP'd, and on May 9 over 90 bikes thundered out of Ducati New York to take on all five boroughs in one ride. 
Ninety-plus Ducatis crossing bridges and carving through Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island is the kind of sight that stops traffic for the right reasons — a rolling statement of how big this community has grown
Then the skies opened. It rained. Nobody cared. This club has never been fair-weather, and the Centenario ride wasn't about to be the exception.
Soaked and grinning, the group pushed through to the finish: CCC, Classic Car Club Manhattan's new home on 55th Street, right across from the Ferrari dealership, where a private screening of the MotoGP Sprint waited to cap the day.
Italian machines outside, Italian racing on the screen, and the whole family in from the rain together — you couldn't script a better ending.
A special shoutout goes to videographer Lester Barrett, who hung out of the back of Tigh Loughhead's pickup truck — driven by Omar Karim — to capture the ride in motion.
The footage that came out of that rig is why days like this live on past the ride itself.
One hundred years of Ducati, ninety-plus bikes, five boroughs, one family, no quit. That's what it means to ride as one.
More than 150 members RSVP'd, and on May 9 over 90 bikes thundered out of Ducati New York to take on all five boroughs in one ride. 
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