BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

→ Riding the 2018 Ducati Monster 821 through the Apennine Mountains highlights one of motorcycling’s greatest pleasures: the feeling of connectedness between the body’s faculties in pursuit of one objective. Looking through the corner, shifting your body weight as the bike leans toward the apex, the sensation of speed as your hand twists the throttle—this is the beautiful interplay between the body, the machine, and the winding road.

As David Foster Wallace says in his essay , “The human beauty we’re talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be