RIDE REVIEW I 2023 MOTO MORINI X-CAPE
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'm in a car coming back from a lovely
seaside dinner on the Sicilian coast. It's
dark, what little streetlights there are
illuminating the road are vastly outgunned
by the four-wheeler's copious light beams,
and then this red flash rips past us at god
knows what speed and into one of the
waiting alleyways.
I ask my guide just what it was that
scared all of us half to death.
"Oh, it's just another guy thinking he's
Valentino on one of those Moto Morinis,"
he says. "Those things are everywhere.
People here don't have much money, and
they can afford them, so you see about 15
of them to every Ducati here."
The thing I take away from what he just
said is the affordability. Bikes these days are
getting more expensive by the minute, and if
some kid in the back alleys of Sicily can af
-
ford one, surely, they can't be that bad?
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK I PHOTOGRAPHY BY RYAN NITZEN
ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ITALIAN GIANTS OF TWO-WHEELED
PRODUCTION, MILAN'S MOTO MORINI IS BACK AND
READY TO PLAY IN ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE
SEGMENTS IN MODERN MOTORCYCLING.
