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The 2011 Ducati Vyper has been spied undergoing final development testing in Italy and will likely be launched at EICMA this fall.
News of the Vyper first emerged a year ago, with a clay styling model appearing in MCN. That model appeared to adopt styling cues straight from the Monster, enlarging and ridicu-fying them in order make it look like something He-Man would ride.
These spy shots appear to show another styling direction, one that's ditched any pretense of translating Ducati's heritage into the literal penis substitute market. A huge tail unit holds two huge vertical LED taillights and hovers over a huge rear tire mounted on a huge single-sided swingarm and two huge shotgun-style exhausts. The rider straddles a huge fuel tank and what appears to be a huge steel-trellis frame. Doesn't the whole thing just make you feel huge? Handlebars appear to be swoopy cast items and forks are upside down.
What's not clear is just how huge the engine will be. Will it be huge like the 1200cc v-twin Ducati sticks in its superbikes or huge like an all-new engine specifically developed to be as awe-inspiringly huge as possible?
Source:Spy Photos: 2011 Ducati Vyper performance cruiser - Hell For Leather
News of the Vyper first emerged a year ago, with a clay styling model appearing in MCN. That model appeared to adopt styling cues straight from the Monster, enlarging and ridicu-fying them in order make it look like something He-Man would ride.
These spy shots appear to show another styling direction, one that's ditched any pretense of translating Ducati's heritage into the literal penis substitute market. A huge tail unit holds two huge vertical LED taillights and hovers over a huge rear tire mounted on a huge single-sided swingarm and two huge shotgun-style exhausts. The rider straddles a huge fuel tank and what appears to be a huge steel-trellis frame. Doesn't the whole thing just make you feel huge? Handlebars appear to be swoopy cast items and forks are upside down.
What's not clear is just how huge the engine will be. Will it be huge like the 1200cc v-twin Ducati sticks in its superbikes or huge like an all-new engine specifically developed to be as awe-inspiringly huge as possible?
Source:Spy Photos: 2011 Ducati Vyper performance cruiser - Hell For Leather
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