Let’s talk about your lifestyle. How dirty is it? Plenty of rough stuff in the diet? Not that Ducati, until recently would really have been concerned about you and dirt, mud, dust or any other fun off-road by-products. You see, in just a few short years the classy Italian marque has broken free of its stereotypical sportsbike and naked themes, and has worked out that getting the front of your beautifully sand-casted engine smothered in mud or banking on your mate and copping a roost of the pooh-coloured thick stuff isn’t too tough on Ducati’s image – or yours. In fact, it’s a wonderful thing, in a dirty but wholesome way.

Read more in the current issue of AMCN Vol 66 No 07 On sale 29 September 2016