Categories: Bikes Diary Reviews

In my unending quest to bring enlightenment and knowledge to the world of the Ducatisti, I have taken one more tiny step towards Zen mastery (which must now put me on about the level of the average grasshopper) - this time to answer the speculation on various online fora about the potential cost of an off-road drop of the Multistrada 1200. Here's the answer: zip. nada. nowt. bugger all. OK, that's on a sample size of one: your mileage may vary. Turning around on a local fire road, I ran out of steering lock and decided to hop off to back 'er up, only to discover that the ground was further away than I thought. A lot further away - I'm 6', with 34" inside leg, but it still went past its balance point, at which point, whether or not it's 20kg lighter than a GS became entirely moot - it's a big, tall bike, and it was gone. Having convinced a couple of passing deer that very bad-tempered bears had been reintroduced to the Highlands, I hauled it back upright. Not a single, solitary scratch, scrape or ding. Relieved, impressed and relieved, in that order. Now off to put an ice pack on my knee...
Posted by Richard at May 12, 2010 01:34 PM

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