New Diavel Looks awesome.... But ehhh...The looks???

[Ahks]

yeah who thought of those red wheels?  

I dig the red on white evo... Not sure why but I like white sport bikes and the red wheels and frame is just the perfect (for me) amount of *pop* on that model. It and the red m1100evo in red are my 2 bg's on my laptops. I'm really gonna have to test ride some bikes when I have the cash for the down payment.

[junior varsity]

not just the guidos, but anybody who wants ducati performance and a low seat, void of sbk ergos. This bike ain't built for those that picked the Monster or the SBK as their ideal Ducati! Seems like that concept is pretty hard to grasp around here.

[Raux]

www.motorcyclistonline.com%2Ffeatures%2F122_1103_2011_ducati_diavel%2Findex.html&h=344cb

So I read this article.

of course my comments based on the article

"All I read was... the designer couldn't think of something himself so he copied everyone else and modified it."

[zooom]

http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/features/122_1103_2011_ducati_diavel/index.html

your linky is broken...

anyways....what I took from that article was a whole lot of what Ducati wanted them to regurgitate....which is no surprise for publications like these whom are suffering moreso than moto manufacturers...

[lazylightnin717]

not just the guidos, but anybody who wants ducati performance and a low seat, void of sbk ergos. This bike ain't built for those that picked the Monster or the SBK as their ideal Ducati! Seems like that concept is pretty hard to grasp around here.

+1

It seems some people around here are more stubborn than my 31 week pregnant fiance' and hoooooo boy is she ever. At any rate, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I like the looks of the bike and I think that different markets are going to be key for the auto industries.

Look at Ferrari and their new hatchback. It's got a new all wheel drive system, and 3 doors.... Very un-Ferrari like but....

It's still sporting a son of a pregnant doging 6.3 liter V12 that will propel it 0-60 in a blistering 3.7 seconds. That's a hell of a "grocery getter"

Look at the Porsche Panamera...

[junior varsity]

on the other end of the spectrum, companies losing market share are coincidentally also not diversifying their lineup.


cough cough harley davidson cough

[DucatiTorrey]

on the other end of the spectrum, companies losing market share are coincidentally also not diversifying their lineup.


cough cough harley davidson cough

i honestly just looked for a like button. Too much facebook for me... sigh

[sbrguy]

Look at the Porsche Panamera...

exactly look at the panamera, proof that people have absolutely no taste at all and will buy any ugly thing as long as it has the right "name" attached to it.

the ferrari 4 seater is still a somewhat good looking car so that is understandable, the aston martin rapide is EXACTLY what the Panamera wished it could look like and is a great looking 4 door sports car, heck even the mercedes cls is 10x better looking of a car than the panamera.

[zooom]

if I wanted a 4 seater Ferrari, I would go and look at a Maserati...

if I wanted a power cruiser, Ducati or many other european nameplates wouldn't be the primary names I would look at...look at how well the BMW R1200C and R1200CLC did, and those are two VERY compotent machines made by a company who is not into the market share of where that thing should have and could have sold....I fear the Diavel WILL suffer the same fate....but I could be wrong.

[sbrguy]

maybe ducati can make a stretched out 1198 with the extended swing arms and such like they had in the custom bike build at the motorcycle show in dc with all the stretched out r1 and busa

[lazylightnin717]

exactly look at the panamera, proof that people have absolutely no taste at all and will buy any ugly thing as long as it has the right "name" attached to it.

And those people may be the ones that buy the Diavel. It's about personal preference. There isn't any one bike out there that appeals to everybody. I do however, agree with you about the Panamera.  ....although it IS still a Porsche

if I wanted a 4 seater Ferrari, I would go and look at a Maserati...

[danaid]

From the Motorcyclist article,

"The riding position is similar to the Monster, and the handling too, though the Diavel is bigger in dimension and much more comfortable. Ducati's test department reports that this is the quickest-accelerating and best-braking bike the company has ever built-outsprinting and outbraking even the 1198-but it's certainly not a sportbike. It's a bike that defies categorization by design."

  This bike gets better the more I look at it.

[Airborne]

I'd like to see someone remove that carbon tumor air intake, somehow fit clip ons and then lower the headlight. Wouldn't take much to spice it up.

[Raux]

you know what...

I finally realize the issue here.

It needs an air/oil cooled motor.

take off all the extra stuff put on there to cover up the 4-V plumbing/radiators, etc... and you might have a decent looking bike.

[hihhs]

you know what...

I finally realize the issue here.

It needs an air/oil cooled motor.

take off all the extra stuff put on there to cover up the 4-V plumbing/radiators, etc... and you might have a decent looking bike.

Completely agree! Stock it looks a bit overdone but if you could strip some of the seemingly ancillary crap from it, I think it has some potential. Of course if you strip everything off of it you are probably left with a naked bike... or a Monster.

Would someone please buy one, take all the excess plastic off and post some pics?