#1998DucatiST2

One score and four years ago, when MO was in the process of being potty-trained and the world still had hair, it was normal to post a two-bike comparison that wound up comparing three bikes by the time it was over. In those days, no touring Twin needed more than two valves per cylinder, nor water to cool itself. And it was good.

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop; idle lips are his mouthpiece. In those ancient days of MO, before the turn of the century, we were too damn busy to chisel down more than a few notes on our stone tablets at the launch of Ducati’s first modern sport-touring motorcycle. That, or hackers, who could be from anywhere, have made off with the servers that contained the rest of the story and the photos. There is this: