It’s short wheelbase and moderate rider lean angle make it feel tight and aggressive. It has oodles of lush twin power that just makes you wanna wind it on. It has the wet multiplate clutch so no Ducati clickety clack which makes it feel more controllable and maybe reserved compared with the Hyper. That lean …
I’ve been thinking a about what it means to me and how it makes me feel, to be a Ducati owner/rider. There’s something special about the bike and the brand. There is no doubt there is something almost Steve Jobs magical about the brand. For example, I can use the brand Ducati to amplify …
Inever thought I’d like this bike. I expected to really dislike it, even though I am nuts about ducs, it would just be too small and underpowered and hideous to ride. All wrong. It’s got a great riding position even though I am a tall lanky bastard, and it’s a pretty short machine with a …
It’s always been about massive amounts of torque. I don’t know what it is but nothing else in life quite simply satisfies in the same way. Multistrada, Hypermotard, Diavel – torque, torque, torque. Oozing from everywhere. Being hooked on torque is an addiction, a demon lurking deep in your subconscious waiting to be unleashed. As …
After travelling to the opposite side of the world and the exact opposite of the Australian Solstice, after some 1,000 Miles on a Jap bike around various bits of the UK, and almost a weeks worth of broken sleep I finally felt like I might be up for a bit of a ride on the …
Iwas *ahem* at the track recently to see what the wind blast was like at high speed and on a couple of bits I got the good ole speed wobbles. Something I am not a fan of. I would’ve thought with big wide bars it wouldn’t be an issue but it kinda is. Anyway, these bloody …
Owning a Ducati is. I remember 1994 when the 916 was first unveiled like it was yesterday but I was a kid then and could never afford one. I am older and better off now and finally I made the right decision to get on one. But my tastes have changed too, older and wiser …