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Came up in conversation today, different opinions opined.

As ugly as French Connection UK .... but who cares, it's only a ducrapy

It's a clever piece of marketing, aimed squarely at the You Ess of Ay. The Ducati brand is probably one of the few that could challenge Hardly Movingson on their own turf.

I'm entirely indifferent to it.

Well it looks like a malformed MT01 without an arse end based in what we saw today

I'm still buying one as soon as I get rich...

And I'm going to get a Ducati cut off and piss pot too.

I like the diavel. Managed to sit on one. The seating position is very comfortable.

Ok, ignore the price difference, Bimota took the same lump, ditched all the 'you cant really ride ' electronic excuses, put the same lump in a well engineered frame and....
it turned out to be a proper nasty tarmac terrorist, not just a marketing ploy,

For the money, I'd expect/want something that is not really there in this model

It's not a pretty bike but it is interesting looking. I wouldn't go out and spend my hard earned on a Diavel but I'd happily ride one.

Sometimes a bike doesn't need to be pretty. Case in pont, The Hayabusa. Ugly as sin, common as arseholes.

I love it! Apart from that bloody huge end can but most bikes need different cans anyway so I woul;dn't condemn it for that.

Come on folks ..... what were they thinking?

Yes a bike to make the Bussa look good when parked next to one (even the Gen2 Bussa)





And what's that front end .... find the bars and the front wheel is in the next county ..... you'll never see out at junctions as you'll be sat further back than you would behind an e-type's bonnet

It manages a neat trick - it makes a V-twin look wide - even wider than an H-D, if that's possible. Maybe the Yanks like that kinda thing...

I was a bit of a fence sitter on this initially until a mate turned up on one out of the blue and it doesn't look too special in the flesh.

Apparently it doesn't go all that well either, but my mate manages to wear out Gixer thou's so it's all relative.

D-Rider wrote:Come on folks ..... what were they thinking?

Probably - lets build a v-twin cruiser that the hip and cool kiddies will like.
Also it will annoy old people.

Ahem!

I had an original monster way back and the configuration of the exhausts on all Ducatis I liked i.e. one on each side, as soon as they went to two on one side I hated them, the SR2 and 4 were awful and the Diavel is equally ugly.
It's a shame as the Monster is the reason I have a Falco now, the V or L twin is a lovely engine.