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Originally Posted by Noah930

The XKSS was the street version of the D-type.

I haven't ridden a 749, but I took a test ride on a 999S. That's with the testastretta motor (not the earlier desmoquattro, that dates back to the original 851 design). It's also the same motor found in the Monster S4RS (which was what I interested in, at that time--so I wanted to see what the motor was like). Holy jeebsus, was there power everywhere. It wasn't even breathing hard and I was doing felonious speeds. And the steering felt like it was hard-wired into my brain. You think and you're there.

that is the beauty of the ducati twins with fuel injection. huge amounts of useable torque and plenty of power. i smoke sport bikes in the canyons going uphill that have twice the horsepower of my humble SS. seriously. they cannot match the out of corner grunt and useable power bandwidth. i shift half as often.