$41,000??? OK, a fast bike is about $14,000, leaving about $27,000 for gas, or about 10,000 gallons, or basically gas for the life of the bike and its owner. How is this a savings of anything??
Please remember, this is a RACE BIKE, probably not even eligible to be licensed on the street. Did you see the production numbers? Just enough to make it "legal" as a "production racer."
Trust me on this one... While it's sort of cool to own a racing bike and ride it on the streets, it's really NOT a fun thing to do. They're seriously uncomfortable, need CONSTANT maintenance, and are really tuned so tightly to wring every bit of performance out of the bike, that it's OK for them to hand grenade the motor on the cooldown lap.
Ducati had to do some serious reengineering on the Desmosedici (their MotoGP bike for the street), detuning it, and beefing up the chassis, as well as replacing a lot of the parts to make it safe to ride on the streets (like getting rid of the magnesium racing wheels and carbon fiber brake rotors).
Mark