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REVIEW: ‘12 Duca Diavel (connued) connued from Page 18 ... Jacking up the rear end with four clicks of adjustment to the handy knob of the Sachs shock resulted in a perfectly neutral response under any circumstances. The bike then turned with razor-sharpness and followed the proper line, never again developing a way of its own. As delivered from the factory, the Marzocchi front end is mighty solid and well-tuned. The rear Pirelli deserves a special menon because it performed superbly even on the very cold tarmac of the mountain road. Duca conceived the Diavel as a superbike with a power-cruiser soul but granted it all the best to perform like a superbike, including radial-mount Brembo Monobloc front brake callipers that ensure some of the strongest deceleraons in the industry. Ducas are no longer crude missiles. Though no corners were cut anywhere in terms of equipment or aenon to comfort, this massive Diavel ps the scale at just 239kg dry. If you’re looking for an everyday motorcycle that oozes Duca personality yet provides everyday funconality, you might be happier on a Mulstrada or Monster. But if you view the Diavel as a more specialized toy for a specific clientele, its unique hybridizaon of sportbike and cruiser genres begins to make more sense—it’s really a sort of supersport cruiser, if such a thing exists. The Diavel is a heaven-sent for performance-oriented riders who are red of achy wrists and sff necks, don’t mind a more relaxed posture, and love the aenon of riding a visually disncve bike. Duca’s Diavel might be the most dangerous experiment the company has undertaken since it was founded in 1926, but it’s also the most potenally fruiul. By offering striking style, high speed, and defiantly capable handling (especially at higher velocies), Duca has effecvely carved itself a new niche. No longer must cruiser fans sele for rocket-quick rides with cumbersome handling; the Diavel’s willingness to tackle the twises lends it 20 a quality that’s virtually impossible to find in any other bike. If anything, the Duca Diavel’s league-of-its-own status opens itself up for plenty of imitators; if enough wellheeled buyers make this bike a success, it won’t be long before other manufactures start building power cruisers that aren’t piggishly heavy or technologically crude. But regardless of the Diavel’s potenal future success, Duca is to be commended for boldly going where they’ve never been before; building such an unconvenonal product takes audacity, and the Diavel’s shocking performance and surprising fun-to-ride factor earns it the rare disncon of being one hell of a ride for people who wouldn’t be caught dead on a power cruiser. By the way, “Diavel” does not mean “devil” in the “Bolognese.” In fact, the word doesn’t even exist in the local dialect. Diavel is just the voluntary misspelling of the real word, Dieval, which would have been hard to read and pronounce, especially in English. Who Should Buy the Duca Diavel? Sport-oriented cruiser fans ready to ditch the tradional power cruiser and embrace a thoroughly modern reworking of the genre. At this price and with 24,000km service intervals, what beer investment can you make than this beast of a machine that could take on the the cat-walks of Millan. Priced at R190,000.00 - Incl. 14% VAT DUCATI DURBAN Tel: (031) 566 5464 Shop 1 Rideton Towers, 6 Aurora Drive Umhlanga Rocks
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