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What does 47 years of the same DNA actually feel like?
Fabio Taglioni drew the first belt-driven Desmo L-twin in 1979 for the Pantah 500, and every air-cooled Ducati twin since then has come from that one engine.
47 years of the same DNA, and the 803 in the Scrambler is the final evolution of that line, because Ducati's newer twins are liquid-cooled and they feel different in every way that matters.
Feel the handlebars at idle and the uneven thump you notice is the 315 and 405 degree firing interval, which is physics and not tuning, and a parallel twin simply cannot copy this rhythm.
Air-cooled, two valves, visible cylinder fins and a Desmo head, a bike that looks like a motorcycle is supposed to look, so your grandfather would recognise half of it at a glance.
73 hp in 176 kilos means the engine lives in the mid-range, because the Scrambler was never built to chase a redline, it was built to make 80 km/h on Route 117 feel like something worth remembering.
Scrambler Icon Dark. 803cc air-cooled L-twin. 73 hp. 176 kg. From $11,995 CAD, about $200/mois à 0% sur 60 mois.
DM us SCRAMBLER and come hear one idle in Montréal before the lineup turns the page.
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