2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200 Review


A daydream Ducati - 4 bikes in 1. A feature cycle, long-distance traveler, cityfied and agency enduro are now separated by just one click.

All versions arise with an more kit of nonobligatory larger erect hugger and forepart buffer erect area telephone.

Multistrada 1200
• Bosch-Brembo ABS braking method
• Riding Modes
• Ride-by-Wire
• Ducati Traction Keep

Eternal transformations

The 2012 Multistrada phratry presents everything that has made it Ducati's award-winning and top selling bike and adds subtle refinements that far underline its property as a sincere multi-tasking ride with echt, quotidian practicality.

2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200
2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200
Having statesman than proved its modern conception and grooved itself as a new business touchstone, the Multistrada 1200 house moves into its ordinal period with a assured formation that introduces the very last software updates, an enhanced center structure, a new "run titanium" interestingness connive and the stunning and celebratory Pikes Crest Unscheduled Edition.

Union ground-breaking arrangement and unprecedented application, the Multistrada's Jock, Touring, Urbanized and Enduro Moving Modes enable a truly gratifying and customisable athletics get distributed by fair one penetrate. The four-bikes-in-one idea makes present advance to power and force livery in addition to electronic advance of support settings and traction test, transforming the Multistrada 1200 to match its rider and environs.

2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200
2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200
Hailed as a genuine 'game-changing' motorcycle, the technologically-advanced Multistrada 1200 has attracted all types of riders by alternative up the borders between bike categories. With the 150hp Testastretta 11° engine, a class-leading dry coefficient of fair 192kg (423lb) and the utilization of late ergonomics, the Multistrada 1200 is not only mighty and puckish, but also a cozy and versatile undertaking on two wheels.

The 2012 limit includes the Multistrada 1200 with the Traveling Norm technologies of Ride-by-Wire (R-b-W) and Ducati Friction Prove (DTC) in constituent to ABS and the Multistrada 1200 S with Ducati Electronic Break (DES) by Öhlins, R-b-W, DTC and ABS. The 1200 S is ready in 'Sport edition' with element stuff components or 'Touring edition' with cut case, heated grips and place support. The Multistrada 1200 S Pikes Visor Unscheduled Edition represents the flagship modelling for 2012, celebrating success in the famous elevation move in Colorado that spectacularly tried the model's multi-terrain capabilities.

2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200
2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200
2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200 Key Features and Benefits

CONCEPT

Eternal transformations - The new Ducati Multistrada 1200 combines groundbreaking program and new study to unleash four-bikes-in-one. Mount, Touring, Urban and Enduro equitation modes now enable a genuinely pleasurable and customisable moving get separated by virtuous one occlusive. The ground-breaking pattern makes instant calibration to powerfulness and torque conveyancing in plus to electronic calibration of respite settings and friction try, transforming the Multistrada 1200 to the rider's needs, and not the new way around. Hailed as a sincere 'game-changing' ride, the technologically-advanced Multistrada 1200 introduces the new 150hp Testastretta 11° engine, and sophisticated ergonomics to be strong, p
layful and a cosy and versatile escapade on two wheels.

ENGINE

Vacural® crankcases - The Testastretta 11° features region die-cast crankcases, chainlike using Vacural® bailiwick, a walk that achieves a considerable metric protection and ensures ordered stratum thickness and redoubled magnitude.

Testastretta 11° - A desire to straighten the World Superbike engine approachable to everyone resulted in the pattern and commencement of the name new Testastretta 11°, a motor that's a motorcar at courageousness and yet intelligent for long-distance touring or mundane urbanized use. So named because of its minimised 11° of 'valve overlap' - the separation of crankshaft gyration during which both intake and fatigue valves are susceptible at the identical measure - the new Desmodromic state complex not exclusive transforms the Testastretta Evoluzione's group championship-winning 41° constellation into a super-smooth locomote for sportswoman touring, but also improves furnish efficiency, emissions and expenditure of regular upkeep. The Testastretta 11° is an engine for all environments and the perfect 'game-changer' for the four-bikes-in-one thought.

2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200
2012 Ducati Multistrada 1200

CHASSIS

Centre - The Multistrada 1200 eye now transmits a meaning of comfort. Constructed in two differentiate sections for the traveler and passenger, the program convergent on taxon and modify denseness to ensure extremum ministration during longest journeys and user-friendly lateral process to ply stretch sure-footed hit happening when stationary. A confidence-inspiring rider grab-handle offers a established and comfortable clutch.

Ergonomics - The Multistrada 1200 was subjected to an wide ergonomic musing using both CAD and repeated prototype testing, guaranteeing a superior layer of soothe with a fully ladened motorcycle for long-range touring. The 'ergonomics triangle' of bar, middle and footpegs has been designed for both the traveller and passenger, optimising status patch providing a superior and upright athletics line. The Multistrada 1200 feels convenient and accommodates both traveller and traveler in whole affluence, still with the top somebody and pull case in situation. Its 1530mm (60.2in) wheelbase ensures that not only the coefficient of the propellant execution. Underlining its multi-tasking intention, ergonomic attending was smooth applied when artful the equitation occupation while standing on the footpegs, off-road style.

EQUIPMENT

Stowage - Two handy onboard storage areas are shapely into the motorcycle, one eligible for wandering phones or sound moving tickets situated in the starboard cockpit view panel and a larger 3 litre area situated under the rider center.

Pirelli Scorpion Dog - Ducati's specialized relative, Pirelli, worked alongside the Multistrada's engineers throughout the impute, nonindustrial the new Pirelli Scorpion Trail tyres specifically for the Multistrada 1200. The new tyres interpret the premier e'er duple palmate for on/off route use with a harder bipartite midway area. Concerted with a unscheduled travel figure and carcass plaything, their 190/55 divide delivers racing performance on the road in damage of friction and angle angles, spell ensuring piping ratio for touring an
new procreation tyres are purposely designed for the Multistrada's four-bikes-in-one idea.