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SUB-LITRE NAKEDS

e’ve been hearing for a while now that naked bikes are the next big thing, and how that’s where all the effort is being put by manufacturers to satisfy a change in our taste. Well, at the risk of stating the obvious, naked bikes are no longer the next big thing – they arrived in our middleweight naked bike test, consisting of four bikes that could easily have been six or seven. In this very issue is my launch report on the brand new Ducati Streetfighter V2 that further expands naked bike choices, and here we have another group of four naked bikes that, if they must be pigeonholed, I suppose could be referred to as sub-litre nakeds.

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