The Multi, like its abiding mates, doesn’t accomplish with absolutely the aforementioned aplomb in two worlds – off-road and pavement – like the BMW R1200GS or KTM Adventure, but no one says you can’t booty it off the baffled path. After all, the name Multistrada is a bastardization of English and Italian acceptation “many roads.”
Whatever you anticipate a dual-sport (purpose) bike is, or what adequate allotment of off-road accomplishment is all-important for a bike to abrasion the on/off-road hat, is your call. But of two things we actuality at Motorcycle.com are certain: there acceptable won’t be a accord on belief defining dual-sport anytime soon, and the Multi’s paved-road achievement doubly covers any dirt-handling deficiencies it has.
The M-1100 isn’t news, hasn’t afflicted back its 2007 addition as an amend to the Multistrada 1000, and has been advised aloof about everywhere beneath the sun, including on this site. But this time, initially for the purposes of evaluating Metzeler’s new Roadtec Z6 Interact annoy beforehand this year, we nabbed an 1100 in S flavor, now the alone adaptation of the Multi alien to the U.S.
The S and accepted archetypal are powered by the aforementioned 90-degree 1,078cc, air-cooled 2-valve-per-cylinder Desmodromic agglomeration fed by a 45mm burke anatomy with Marelli EFI. Output at the crank is a claimed 95 hp at 7,750 rpm with 76 ft-lbs at 4,750 rpm. When we lasted sampled this bike in our 2007 Air-Cooled Twins Naked Comparo, our analysis assemblage at that time aerated out 79.6 hp at 7,300 rpm and 65.0 ft-lbs at 4,800 rpm on the Area P Dynojet.
Both models backpack the character-laden comminute in a tubular-steel filigree anatomy akin to an aluminum single-sided swingarm, both signature Ducati architecture elements.
Where the S archetypal justifies its $2,500 bound over the standard’s $11,995 MSRP is with the use of an Ohlins angle rather than a Showa assemblage (both USD 43mm units), an Ohlins in abode of a Sachs shock (both accept alien hydraulic preload adjusters, the Ohlins adds damping on the alien dial), cone-shaped aluminum handlebar and carbon cilia advanced fender and cam belt covers
