We had to find out what the record-setting multistrada is like and Ducati happened to have a pikes peak lying around for the ride. Didn’t take much to put the two together.
Yes, that’s what you see in pictures here, the 2018 Ducati Multistrada 1260 Pikes Peak. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but then, you can let that pass, especially for a motorcycle that set the fastest time at the hill climb, from where it derives its name, a couple of months back. Yes, this same version – a big touring motorcycle – did that and all the help that it had came from a set of racing slicks, a different handlebar and a heavy duty master cylinder for the front brakes. Oh, and a chap called Carlin Dunne, who happens to be crowned ‘King of the Mountain’, every time he points a motorcycle up the Pikes Peak hill, electric or petrol powered.
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