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Test Ride Review of Ducati 848 EVO

At 8:45am this morning i left home to ride the 35 miles to Ashford in Kent to collect my ride for the morning. Overcast and cooler than of late i had trouble getting heat into the Racetecs and had a steady, if uneasy ride to Laguna Motorcycles and was praying it would stay dry for the next 4 hours. At 9:15 Steve the salesman handed me the keys and showed me around the dash and controls and tbh it all looked very familiar, after all, just how much can they change in the way of controls and dash?. I must admit the dash did look very Race-esque with the revcounter the most prominent thing you notice. The nice added touch of being able to cycle through all the settings via a left thumb switch and easily used with a gloved hand, instead of having to stop and press tiny buttons like i do on the gixxer dash. After riding inline fours for the last 5 years I was slighlty worried about the transition to a twin again after so much time away. My last bike was an early 999 and before that a 74...