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Corsa Multi

This isn’t your average media test. Normally before you’re let loose on a new bike, you and a dozen others are shuffled into a room where you’re regaled with the features and specs in a bid to convince you the bike you’re about to ride is an unequivocal improvement over the outgoing equivalent.

Not this time. I’m one of just three people standing in the pits of a tight and twisty track next to a machine I don’t even know the name of. Sure, I know it’s a Ducati Multistrada V4, and that it’s a higher-spec road-going version much like the firm’s Pikes Peak editions of years gone by. But I don’t know what it weighs, I don’t know its power and torque figures, other than what I can see and feel I don’t know what bells and whistles it boasts and

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