Motor Ducati Hypermotard............
MCN's photographer, Howard Boylan, isn't easily impressed. For someone who's snapped the likes of everyone from Schwantz to Rossi slugging it out at GPs, and every single new motorcycle MCN's tested for the last ten years, it takes a special kind of two-wheeler to make him sit up and take notice.
So when he saw Ducati's new Hypermotard sitting pretty in the reception of our hotel at the world launch in Sardinia last weekend and said, "I'd kill for one of those", we knew we were onto something special. And you know what? After a day riding both the stock version on Sardinia's twisty roads, plus the hotted up 'S' version on the track, he's right.
The Hypermotard is Ducati's V-Twin, 1100cc take on the supermoto concept. As such it's been designed to offer all the excitement of a conventional supermoto, but with added style, practicality and usability. Bold claims, maybe, but in the flesh it's all this and more. The first time you clap eyes on it, it simply stops you in your tracks.
Up close, the Hypermotard is more muscular and purposeful than it seems in pictures. It's also much smaller, more compact and has many more beautifully-detailed touches than you expect, too; things like dinky lever span adjusters, an LED-encrusted rear spoiler-cum-grabrail and 1098-style radial Brembo brake calipers. Two-wheeled jewelry of the highest order, the lot of it. Even the Hypermotard's color (you can have any you want as long as it's red) seems even more blood red than you expect.
The total effect of all this is to imbue the Hypermotard with a classy, expensive, even exotic air that stablemates such as the Monster or Multistrada have never quite managed. But here's the best bit: the Hypermotard is also an affordable Ducati. It'll cost a quite mouth-watering €7750 ($11,495 U.S.) when it hits showrooms in June. While the 'S' version is here at the end of the month and is €8999 ($13,995 U.S.).
Source:http://www.motorcycle-usa.com
So when he saw Ducati's new Hypermotard sitting pretty in the reception of our hotel at the world launch in Sardinia last weekend and said, "I'd kill for one of those", we knew we were onto something special. And you know what? After a day riding both the stock version on Sardinia's twisty roads, plus the hotted up 'S' version on the track, he's right.
The Hypermotard is Ducati's V-Twin, 1100cc take on the supermoto concept. As such it's been designed to offer all the excitement of a conventional supermoto, but with added style, practicality and usability. Bold claims, maybe, but in the flesh it's all this and more. The first time you clap eyes on it, it simply stops you in your tracks.
Up close, the Hypermotard is more muscular and purposeful than it seems in pictures. It's also much smaller, more compact and has many more beautifully-detailed touches than you expect, too; things like dinky lever span adjusters, an LED-encrusted rear spoiler-cum-grabrail and 1098-style radial Brembo brake calipers. Two-wheeled jewelry of the highest order, the lot of it. Even the Hypermotard's color (you can have any you want as long as it's red) seems even more blood red than you expect.
The total effect of all this is to imbue the Hypermotard with a classy, expensive, even exotic air that stablemates such as the Monster or Multistrada have never quite managed. But here's the best bit: the Hypermotard is also an affordable Ducati. It'll cost a quite mouth-watering €7750 ($11,495 U.S.) when it hits showrooms in June. While the 'S' version is here at the end of the month and is €8999 ($13,995 U.S.).
Source:http://www.motorcycle-usa.com