VOLUME 59 ISSUE 35 AUGUST 30, 2022 P77
(Left) The Pirelli
Scorpion Rally STR
rubber handled this
sort of stuff well.
Any more rugged
and you might want
to start investigating
knobbies. (Right)
Channeling the
looks of the great
Cagiva Elefant will
always win you a
few admirers.
inches of front-wheel travel is comple-
mented by 8.66 inches at the rear,
with the suspension the domain
of Kayaba with chunky 46mm fully
adjustable forks up front and a fully
adjustable shock at the rear.
The ride is a plush one, it must be
said, and for my 200-plus pounds of
fully geared-up person, I needed to
crank everything up in terms of pre-
load, front and rear compression, and
rebound, to attain the kind of balance
I wanted when scaling some truly
incredible peaks in Aspen, Colorado.
As usual, Brembo has supplied the
brakes in the dual M50 monobloc
calipers we first saw way back in 2016
on bikes like the Kawasaki ZX-10R,
Ducati choosing not to go ahead with
the Stylema calipers that first came
out on the Panigale V4. Despite this,
