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Gear Patrol heads to the Catskill Mountains with the keys to a full lineup of Ducati motorcycles.
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"I could cut this review short by just coming right out and saying the Ducati Diavel would be on my Motorcycle Mount Rushmore if we were listing bikes currently in production."
After riding the most recent model during an extended full line event in upstate New York recently, I can report that the Diavel is still a great motorcycle and the finest machine Ducati makes.
That might tweak some Italian torque lovers because it’s commonly held that the Panigale (the Bologna bike builder’s halo machine) is Ducati’s top dog. Now, that bike is exceptionally well made, very tight and silly fast. But, it’s also stiff, challenging and extremely sensitive in terms of balance and control. It’s also a special motorcycle, but it’s not for everyone You simply must know what you’re doing to ride it.
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I’m not a bike guy, let’s put it out there, so this will most probably be one of the worst bike pieces you’ll ever read, especially in technical terms. To me, most bikes look the same; it’s either a cruiser, an off-road bike, a sports bike, or a scooter. Getting deeper into this world was always a challenge, I never figured out how people knew the difference between a Kawasaki ZX-10R and a ZX-6R without looking at the emblems. If I see a purpose-built drag bike or a custom show chopper, I’ll have no idea what I am looking at, just that it has two wheels and it’s loud.
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He's right, that's a good looking Diavel...
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Talk about parting traffic. Wind the throttle open to release Armageddon, a rocking, rolling, mad, bad soundtrack that's part sex, pure muscle and sends cars diving for the verge in fright. Yet Diavel divided Ducati fans when it was first announced. A fat-tyred cruiser from a brand best known for sweet-handling sports bikes? Not since Porsche revealed an SUV have performance-focused petrolheads expressed such outrage.
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Sport bike? Or cruiser?With Ducati’s new machine, you don’t have to choose...
Ducati, the Italian motorcycle icon has been turning out groundbreaking high performance, lust-worthy bikes for nearly three quarters of a century. In conceiving the Diavel, a completely new steed, for its lineup, Ducati engineers started with a blank sheet of paper and ended with a gorgeous, innovative, modern yet visceral motorbike that can play the demon or the pussycat depending on your predilection.
Engine: Ducati’s smoothest engine to date is a 1198cc Testastretta 11-degree power plant that doles out 162-horsepower so smoothly you’ll barely know you’re all those many mph over the speed limit.
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If you can’t ride a motor, it’s difficult to describe the sensation of riding the 2012 Ducati Diavel Cromo. Still, that’s my job, so I’ll give it a try.
If you’ve never sat astride any crotch rocket – especially a seasoned Italian dish like the Cromo – imagine riding a horse that will run you through the sidewall of a barn if you spur it too hard. Imagine taking a bicycle down a ski jump. Imagine rollerblades – rocket-packed like the model Wile E. Coyote orders from Acme.
And then imagine any of those created with enough engineering and technology to make such speed not only safe, but entirely manageable and enjoyable by the rider.
There. That should do it.
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2012 Ducati Diavel in India first ride..
Dieval. That's what the Italians wanted to name it. Except everyone outside Italy would pronounce it as Die-well. It's definitely a beauty that you'd die for but not quite the name you would want for a motorcycle. So the spelling was changed to Diavel (pronounced Dee-ah-vel). Technically that's how dieval' is pronounced in Italy too.
So much for etymology. Okay one more trivia. Diavel in the local Bolognese dialect means devil. One look at the motorcycle and you know why it's called that. Ducati have thrown conformity out of the window when it comes to the design. They took the best ingredients from a superbike, a naked bike, a cruiser, even an American hot rod and produced a mean sizzler. To put a twist on it, if Batman had to trade in his batpod for a motorcycle, he would buy the Diavel.
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We tackle the roads around Nor-Cals majestic Mt. Shasta on the 2012 Ducati Diavel Carbon as we test the merits of Ducatis cruiser as a tourer.
Mt. Shasta shoots up above the Northern California landscape, its 14,000 foot peak still capped by snow though it’s summer. Sturdy pines creep halfway up its face before the tree-line yields to glacier-carved canyons. The mountain has served as the fodder of lore, from tales of a lost underground civilization called Lemuria to New Age stories of
Mt. Shasta looms in the distance, a 14,179 stratovolcano in Northern California. Sounds like a great place to test the road handling capabilities of the Ducati Diavel Carbon. “harmonic convergence.” Though it’s dormant now, the stratovolcano in the Pacific Ring of Fire rages to life every 700 years or so, rewriting the history of the landscape.
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Speed Read: 2012 Ducati Diavel...
Many diehard Ducati fans saw the Diavel as an outright slap in the face. Here was a bike for the cruiser market: “a bike segment that caters knuckle draggers and poor choices in leather apparel,” they sneered. But being a cruiser doesn’t mean you have to give up performance. This is a Ducati after all. So here’s a breakdown on how the 2012 Ducati Diavel is shaking up not only the cruiser segment, but Ducati’s image as a whole, and how it measures up on the streets of Chicago....For more click on the headline link above
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