Parasailing on a Ducati Motorcycle? Sure, Why Not

In which the age-old question is answered: Can you parasail a full-size, still working Ducati Panigale motorcycle as it's towed behind a boat. Turns out, you can.

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By: Jonathon Klein

Aug 11, 2025 at 8:14am ET

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There are so many things you can do with your motorcycle. You can go on road trips. Hit up a track day. Blast through canyons. Go off-roading. Go camping. Go hunting. Go fishing. Or just go out and find some Zen. They even wrote a book about that last one.

And you could even do some pretty extreme things, as Tom Cruise showed off in one of the Mission: Impossible movies, i.e. jumping it off a cliff and parachuting off it. But nowhere has anyone ever thought: What if I parasailed my motorcycle behind a boat?

That is until now. And, folks, it's absolutely unhinged, as not only are the folks behind this stunt not using something light like a dirt bike or motorcycle without its engine. But they're using a full-size Ducati Panigale V4 S that's still very much in running order.

How do I know? Because the guy behind this uses the bike as his daily, apparently.

The man behind the stunt is Goran Gajs, who seems to be from Croatia. And the bike is a Ducati Panigale V4 S Tricolore that he picked up a handful of weeks ago, as shown by his Instagram posts and updates. As for why he parasailed with his brand-new Ducati, I've got nothing. And as for how, well, looking at the video he shot above, the rig looks as if it cradles the back end of the motorcycle, as the front dangles in mid-air without much support.

Personally, I probably would've tried to get the weight distribution a little more even before I set off into the skies, but that's just me. And I've never parasailed a motorcycle before, but Goran has, so I'll defer to his experience.

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Onlookers had a good time watching this all unfold, too, as there's a great shot from the beach in which it shows just how high Goran and his Ducati Panigale got as they were towed behind the boat. Honestly, it'd be nuts to turn up to the beach expecting a fun day in the sun, maybe watch some folks do a regular parasail, and then seeing a big superbike just cruising along in the sky, it's rider in a lifejacket instead of full leathers. Imagine falling asleep on the sand only waking up to the noise of a V4 motor revving from the sky...

Human ingenuity (insanity) knows no bounds.