Talking to a mate of mine tonight he's just taken delivery of the new Ducati Desert X - and is raving about it.
He'll use it 60% on the roads around Oxfordshire but wants to do some green lanes with it as well and some touring - probably down our way to begin with. He's not had a Ducati before - had a Trimuph Scrambler 1100 so it quite surprised how it goes around corners..
Just got to learn all the settings for the electronics and get it run in.
Seems an ideal package and very ''on trend''
I quite like it - and interesting concept - only thing I say is the colour scheme's a bit bland. Looking at the Ducati tri options - £1000 down and £50 pound a week semms a lot of bike.
Just wondered what you lot think ?
Ducati Desert X
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Re: Ducati Desert X
I really like the look of them as it’s very retro Dakar ….. not for me though as it doesn’t tick what I want from my bike and Ducati make other ones that tick all the boxes
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Re: Ducati Desert X
That all day.. i'm not seeing a world in which i'd buy one.. but it's cool bananas
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Re: Ducati Desert X
I really like the look of it.
(But my last experience of an 800cc twin that looked a bit like that (F800GS) was not a good one. ie I absolutely hated it
I'd have to test ride it and, at £14k, it would have to knock my socks off to lever open my wallet).Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
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But certainty is an absurd one.
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Re: Ducati Desert X
Apart from the Wall-E got surprised in the showers whilst bending down to pick up a bar of soap look?
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Re: Ducati Desert X
You say that like its a bad thing?MrLongbeard wrote: ↑Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:19 pmApart from the Wall-E got surprised in the showers whilst bending down to pick up a bar of soap look?
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Re: Ducati Desert X
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Re: Ducati Desert X
I can't get over the fact that I really wanted a Cagiva Elefant - and this looks very similar ...
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Re: Ducati Desert X
You need to wait a little longer for the MV Lucky Explorer range...
Apparently they've had 15,000 re-orders already.
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Re: Ducati Desert X
I like it, happily ride one but just not sure how much use I'd get out of it.
Majority of my riding these days is to the station and back, so chances are that one of these or my other want (Triumph Speed Twin) would get nicked within days by scrotes.
Majority of my riding these days is to the station and back, so chances are that one of these or my other want (Triumph Speed Twin) would get nicked within days by scrotes.
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Re: Ducati Desert X
That's rather nice...KungFooBob wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 9:26 amYou need to wait a little longer for the MV Lucky Explorer range...
Apparently they've had 15,000 re-orders already.