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70 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2017
FIRST RIDE DIRTY SLED The more dirt-oriented Scrambler Desert Sled. “When you say this is the only bike you have, does that mean the only bike you have here or the only bike you have… period?” I ask. “The only bike, as in it’s the only one like it that exists in the world right now, and it’s got to be in one piece for all the marketing assets we need to shoot,” confirms Ducati North America Public Relations Manager Nathon Verdugo. My question is perhaps rhetorical; I can already see the sweat pooling up in his palms. But I ask anyway because Ducati’s video team is proposing that Words: Bradley Adams (Cycle World) its video model, Drake McElroy, jump the bike off of a berm, toward a down slope 5-plus feet away, and straight into a rather menacing sand wash. As far as I’m concerned, that’s not something you do with a bike that needs to stay in one piece. And up until now, it’s definitely not something you do with a bike wearing Scrambler badges on its tank. …We have a bigger fork. We changed the swingarm. The spring. And it’s good for real off-road.” Either I was about to watch grown men break out in tears or see the evolution of the Scrambler unfold in front of my very own eyes. Three, two… Wait, first a closer look at Ducati’s all-new Scrambler Desert Sled. “We like to call this kind of bike the second new Scrambler,” Ducati Scrambler Brand Director Claudio de Angeli says as we stand on the barren El Mirage lake bed for a private shoot of the Desert Sled, two months ahead of its official unveil. “It’s the second new bike because this kind of bike has almost nothing to do with the other one. We have a bigger fork. We changed the swingarm. DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2017 7 1
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