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out for alloy ones), but you will
have to pay extra if you want the
spoked wheels.
We average 34.8 mpg on the
Ducati, which made this bike
the thirstiest of the test. The
Ducati's on-road performance,
and we stress "performance," is
unmatched but it's equally not in
the same ballpark as the KTM
off pavement. The V4 motor was
noted a little peaky on dirt roads
while the more on-road focused
ergonomics hurt its perfor-
mance on dirt.
An area the Ducati got punched
in the guts was in the electron-
ics—not in the type of electronics
it has (it's got the most of any bike
here)—but in adjusting and using
them. Like the Honda Africa Twin
DCT we tested last year, they're
not that easy to adjust and it's sim-
ply a case of information overload.
Having said that, the Adaptive
Cruise Control and Blind Spot
Detection is a safety feature no
bike this size should be without,
and given the Ducati is the only
one that has it, that's a tick for
the Italians.
The Ducati certainly feels the
most "premium" of the bunch,
which is both a good and bad
thing. The good reason should
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