First review I've seen on the GT. https://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/ducati/2020-ducati-multistrada-1260-s-grand-tour-review.html
Personally I wouldn't call that paint scheme a plus point. It makes it look like @Marco - 58 's favourite bike.
This bike would come in my list for "next bike". I dunno the price as I haven't yet spent tow hours looking for the "top secret" information - why is Ducati so sensitive about revealing prices? What I am unsure about is chain drive for what is suspect will be many thousands more that a Guzzi. But... it keeps me thinking!
I found £18,900 (not from Ducati). If that is right then I can't justify it About 1.5 times the price of a Guzzi V85 TT Travel. The Ducati is way more powerful and more sophisticated in things like suspension...but....
Oh, them fecking monstrosities that only mahoosive benders and big girls blouses ride ?? Yeah I know the one's "G"
I thought it a valid question. One that I would ask at Riders. If that was their answer then i would be "Goodbye Ducati, Hello Guzzi"!
I’m just messing with you. I think the two bikes are significantly different. The Guzzi tends to rely on a heritage vibe and is popular with ‘gentlemen of a certain age’. Not my words but the words of a dealer I talked to. Yes it’s a cheaper bike, it’s still a perfectly good bike, I’m sure that it would make a lot of riders very happy. But, for me, the choice of which bike you buy is not only determined by the price you pay. It’s the thrill it gives you every time you open the garage door, the joy every time you ride it, riding across a mountain pass with fellow owners, and then when you park up and walk away you still turn back to have one last look. So I know which choice I would make. When I was younger I couldn’t afford the bikes I really wanted to ride (Laverda Jota, Z900, Ducati Pantah), when I came back to biking after the kids got older I bought with my head and not my heart and I never really felt that thrill. Now I’m lucky that I can buy what I want to and I‘d rather buy the bike that makes my heart beat that little bit faster. By all means analyse the choice of bike by the price, shaft drive, fuel economy, centre stands, waterproof panniers and any of the other practical reasons but in the end ask yourself is it the bike I really want? I hope that helps? (PS of course you also have to overlook reliability and deprecation!)
Useful. It is a valid thing that many people see Moto Guzzi as old man's bikes. But some people see BMW that way, as well That is where the Multistrada wins out!
Well I'm pleased I might be referred to as an 'old gift' instead of an "old git"....Phew! I've never been ageist anyway and definitely NEVER considered myself anything other than 'very experienced'
I think your comparing the wrong bike, if your looking for a Ducati similar in spec and tech to a MG V85TT then really you should be looking at a base Multistrada 950, which at £11,895 is far closer to the £11k for the MG and a darn sight easier on the eye!
Thanks. What doesn't help is Ducati keeping their prices a state secret. If they announced their pricing on their website - as in, what websites are for, then it would be far easier. The idea that you need to visit the dealer in order to learn this classified information is ridiculous. Some bright spark at Ducati thinks that it would put people off to learn the price of a bike on the web. Does that happen in a dealer. You ask the price of a bike and the salesperson clears their throat and says that they would rather not reveal that information. The customer says, "Thank You, I'll just give you access to my bank account and you can take whatever you want!" They must divulge bike prices to magazines and so why are they so sensitive?
