First Impression: Everything a Multistrada Is Not Supposed to Be—and Yet It Works

You hear the RS before the engine even starts. With the clutch lever pulled in, the dry clutch rattles with that characteristic metallic sound that instantly reminds Ducati fans of evenings at the racetrack with a Panigale. It is not a malfunction. It is the first sign of life from the Desmosedici Stradale, the same engine used in the Panigale V4—with the same desmodromic camshafts, the same geometry, the same roughness at low rpm, and the same explosive character beyond 8,000 rpm.

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