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Cycle News 2025 Issue 16 April 22

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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The diamond-tipped back end. A chef's kiss to you, Ducati. Stradale V4 motor, and you have a motorcycle that is genuinely difficult to hang on to when you've got the revs in the reds. I rode the previous-generation Streetfighter V4 S at this very Andalusia circuit back in 2023 and I can assure you, the new machine is not that much faster in a straight line, but it gets around corners and, importantly, off them, much faster. Side-to-side agility is a massive improvement on the 2025 edition, emphasized by how quickly the SF went from full lean on the left to snapping over to the right for the back straight. I damn near lifted the bike off the ground in the direction change, and once I slowed down my movements and understood how much more agile the new chassis was, I began to really appreciate the changes wrought. There's a curious trait I began to notice over the test in Spain. Compared to the Panigale, where all these changes were made for a bike that was more jet than motorcycle, the same changes to the Streetfighter made it almost more VOLUME ISSUE APRIL , P89

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