VOL. 50 ISSUE 32 AUGUST 13, 2013 P75
2013 Ducati 848 EVO
an 848 EVO in the AMA Daytona
SportBike Championship last
year. "But yet it feels really heavy."
"I always come into these tests
and I want to be super excited
about the Ducati. You see everyone else riding them at the track
having a great time—and it's never
that experience for me," admits
Dunstan, our most petite rider.
Hands down the Ducati de-
mands the most from its rider at
any speed. Its steering is best
described as sluggish and requires a fair degree of pressure
on the front brake lever to get the
steering angle sharper so it can
be pointed in the right direction.
Once turned, the 848 posted
the lowest corner speeds in each
of the three measuring points
(turn 4/5, turn 13 and turn 16). It
also failed to deliver the type of
mid-corner confidence we remember adoring from the steelframed Ducati. It also recorded
the least amount of lean angle
through the bowl. It's more bad
news for Ducati fans through
turns 8/9/10 with it recording
the slowest flick rate—a measure
of how quickly the motorcycle
moves from side-to-side. Despite
awkward handling the suspen-
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