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Every few years we in the Ducati community
have a crisis when the latest generation of Ducs are unveiled. Inevitably the
old hats and stodgy luddites will bemoan the commercialization of the company
and how it has lost its way compared to back in THEIR DAY when they build the best
goddamned bikes with no nevermind paid to profitability (or reliability). It happened when they
dropped the dry clutch. It happened when the 1199 eschewed all the traditional Ducati traits. It happened when Pierre Terblanche was given free run in the design department. Hell, some purists
claim the last real Ducatis rolled off the line in 1983 before Cagiva got their
meat hooks on the brand.
So it was in the 1980s when the Pantah
rubber-band motors started replacing the bevel drive twins and the purists moaned that Ducati had lost its way.
