SauRoNZA
Honorary Master
What feels like an age ago in November 2014 I started a love affair with the Ducati Multistrada when I visited Ducati Johannesburg while being up there (or down, if you want to get technical) for some training.
Obviously I didn’t have my gear there at the time and the best I could do was sit on and look at it. But upon my return to Cape Town I started down the path of inquiry as I was convinced this would be my next bike.
This is that very same bike…
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Demos weren’t as readily available in Cape Town as there isn’t a real dealership here but more of a satellite office so I was put on the waiting list for trying one out.
Then during the same span of time Ducati announced the “all new” Multistrada with the world first Skyhook dynamically adjustable suspension. Not wanting an “old” bike I decided to wait for that to eventually arrive and ride.
Of course as luck would have it by the time that happened Ducati again announced the “all new” Multistrada that would now get the world first DVT engine and once again I delayed the test ride waiting on the new bike to arrive.
They say things come in threes and they aren’t often wrong, so yet again when the DVT version finally arrived, Ducati had also just announced the new XDiavel which I wanted to ride back to back with the Multistrada…so again we waited.
So, a year and a half later after first sitting on the bloody thing I finally pickled to Superbike Solutions in Somerset West the other weekend with a riding friend in tow to have a go on what had by now become a Unicorn...
https://samotorcyclist.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/italian-twin-pasodoble/
Obviously I didn’t have my gear there at the time and the best I could do was sit on and look at it. But upon my return to Cape Town I started down the path of inquiry as I was convinced this would be my next bike.
This is that very same bike…
IMG_3806
Demos weren’t as readily available in Cape Town as there isn’t a real dealership here but more of a satellite office so I was put on the waiting list for trying one out.
Then during the same span of time Ducati announced the “all new” Multistrada with the world first Skyhook dynamically adjustable suspension. Not wanting an “old” bike I decided to wait for that to eventually arrive and ride.
Of course as luck would have it by the time that happened Ducati again announced the “all new” Multistrada that would now get the world first DVT engine and once again I delayed the test ride waiting on the new bike to arrive.
They say things come in threes and they aren’t often wrong, so yet again when the DVT version finally arrived, Ducati had also just announced the new XDiavel which I wanted to ride back to back with the Multistrada…so again we waited.
So, a year and a half later after first sitting on the bloody thing I finally pickled to Superbike Solutions in Somerset West the other weekend with a riding friend in tow to have a go on what had by now become a Unicorn...
https://samotorcyclist.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/italian-twin-pasodoble/
