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2011 Ducati Diavel World Exclusive

The Ducati Diavel is not what you think it is!File this under "Things, not what they seem." I got my first good look at the controversial Diavel on a cold, gray November morning at the football field-sized test track behind Ducati's Bologna, Italy, factory. I'm not sure what I expected, but it wasn't to see Ducati's lead test rider Alessandro Valia exit the factory's back gate sideways and spewing tire smoke, then launch into a three-gear power wheelie. Reaching the opposite end of the track at almost 100 mph, he toed the rear brake and pitched the duct tape-disguised prototype into a tire-howling, full-lock, supermoto-style slide. "That's not normal cruiser behavior," I thought to myself.


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