2003 Ducati Multistrada - Motorcycle.com
Vrooom-vrooom, vroooooom-vrooom, vrooom-vroooooom. I'd give a quid or two to read the thoughts of the passengers sitting next to me on the flight back from the Ducati Multistrada launch in Sardinia.
A forty-year-old emitting v-twin engine sounds, tilting his head right and left while twisting an invisible throttle. The Multistrada left an indelible impression on me and it'll take a while to get it all out of my head. This is no classic Italian V-twin vrooom-vroooming we're talking about, like the one performed in a cramped fetal position with your face kissing the instrument panel and your ass propped up ala 916. No. This is another sort of vrooom-vroooming. A new one, really new. Not a "new frame this," "improved engine" that or bold new graphics BS. More like a new idea.
"I nearly choked on my food. Paul is the guy without whom Ducati might not be where it is today at all."
Banished from the 999, the lovely single-sided swingarm reappears on the Multistrada
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