Long before Audi acquired Ducati in 2012, the Italian bikemaker’s grand ambitions could be traced to a misfit model that bowed at the 2005 EICMA motorcycle show in Milan. Ducati was intent on breaking past their familiar road racing-inspired tropes, and the new machine combined dirtbike traits — long suspension travel and minimalist bodywork — with the reassuring power of a massive 1,100-cc twin-cylinder engine topped with their signature dry clutch rattle.
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