I have lust in my heart.
For this (all pics enlarge)
Ducati Diavel
Last week while driving into work I was passed my one of these and from the seat of my Jeep it looked like a very large, raked spacecraft on two wheels. It sounded like I was being passed, quite deliberately, by a Tron-style Lightcycle.
Sadly, being in the “soon-to-be-unemployed” category, I cannot afford the $20K pricetag the Diavel asks. And besides, I should rather be looking at something more along the lines of this “Monster” with the diesel mill.
They “only” run between $10-13K, depending on options.
But even that pricetag is a bit much for something I’ll only be able to ride four months out of the year because I live in an urbanized rainforest.
So picture me drooling over this instead
HD XL883N Speedster
“Only” $6-7K
Once I’m gainfully employed, the wifey says she will give her blessing. So long as she can get one of the Can-Am Spyders
I call that a deal.
I loved my Duc, it was just the best thing on two wheels, too bad i was a sub standard rider. I am that one out that that kept the ratio of bike riders that had and had not laid one down ~1:1 at least in the Ft Stewart GA area for a few years.
I found out i need a cage around me, and thus drive the crap out of a 09 Mustang GT now, but i miss the simple joy and the power that the Duc had.
Good luck and keep the shiny side up.
I’d love a Can-Am Spyder!
someday…
Lemme know when you’re ready; I’ve got a Ferarri Red ’88 850 Paseo that gets speeding tickets just sitting at a traffic light, heh, heh, heh.
Does ‘Diavel’ mean something in Italian? Google language tools doesn’t recognize it.
When I first saw the name I read ‘Drivel’ instead. Heh, and my bank account saw the word ‘Apocalypse’.