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Ducati GT 1000 Classic
The Ducati GT1000 offers the best of two
different worlds – elegant styling that harks back to a different era, combined
with contemporary motorcycle technology, which makes it safe and reliable. Retro
styling cues are everywhere – large, generous double seat, twin rear shocks,
wire-spoke wheels, steel tube chassis and even the way the headlamp and taillamp
look – everything looks like it’s from a different age.
Review Getting enthusiastic acclaim for
wild retro show models is one thing, but selling them come Monday is quite
another. I find it hard to believe that anybody in Ducati could have suspected
that three years after the Sport Classic models were unveiled in the Tokyo show,
that these would become the top sellers in the Bolognese firm's line-up.
The later (and way sexier) Darmah again tried to offer a touring tool for true
Ducatisti but by that time the twins had become synonymous with hard-core
sporting machines. Nevertheless, the concept of a large Duc with relaxed ergos
remained embedded in our collective memory, and considering the typical back
problems of current bike buyers in their forties and fifties, was deemed as very
rational. Treblanche took only the spirit of the GT's, a sort of purposeful
modernist style and translated it to modern times without trying to mimic the
exact shapes exaggeratedly.
Sport riders might laugh at my boasting about 120mph but I can assure you that
120 on this fairing-less Duc is way more interesting and fun that 160 on your
typical crotch rocket; there something utterly manic and raw about it. The
90-degree Vee might be in theory perfectly balanced but there are enough vibes
to remind you that it's no four-pot sawing machine churning out the horsies down
there. Obviously the helmet does get hit by the wind blast even while laying on
the tank but at least its clean, non-turbulent air, so it's not that bothersome,
all things considered.
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