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DUCATI MULTISTRADA 950

When you look at the Multi 950, you’d swear that it couldn’t possibly be the ‘small’ version of anything–even though I have ridden the Multi 1260, I found myself wondering how much bigger the bigger one could possibly be as the ‘little’ 950 does seem like a big old bus, at first glance.

At second glance, though, and under closer inspection, there are a few giveaways that this isn’t quite as meaty a motorbike as you may have first thought. The exhaust looks fairly feeble, like a little pea-shooter, and the brakes don’t look particularly hefty, either.

In fact, the first time I pulled the front brake lever on our road ride I nearly stoved myself into the back of a bus because the lever was that spongy it came all the

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