What a long, strange trip it's been; just a few short years ago Ducati-- Italian builder of pulse-quickening performance bikes-- would have never been mentioned in the same breath as
power cruisers, the bike genre known for its oddball combination of laid back seating position and big-engined thrust. Enter 2010, and Ducati is on the cusp of releasing its first ever power cruiser, which will be called Diavel (pronounced
Dee-ah-vel, seen above in the first photo officially supplied from the manufacturer.) According to Ducati, Diavel means "devil" in the Bolognese dialect, and was coined when a Ducati employee muttered, ""Ignurànt comm' al diavel!" upon first seeing the bike-- which translates to, "Evil, like the devil!"*
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