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RIDE REVIEW I 2025 DUCATI STREETFIGHTER V2 S
Shame we don't have any wheelie shots. Many
were had on the V2 S test. It's that kind of bike.
system wasn't as nice as I remembered on the
Panigale that I tested a few weeks ago. I put this
down to the fact the Streetfighter test was all on
road. I was running a traditional one down/five
up road pattern gearshift, as opposed to the one
up/five down race pattern shift, and the fact that
the shifts were not, as they were on track with the
Panigale, usually done with a wide-open throttle.
That tells me the shifts were good but not
great, so Ducati will need to work on this area as
they refine the 2.0 system for street use.
The other half of the new Streetfighter V2 S
equation is how it handles, and for that, Ducati
gets about as close to full marks as I can give it.
There's a claimed 33 pounds less on this mod
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el compared to the 955 Streetfighter, which has
