Last issue we’d ridden the Ducati Multistrada Enduro in Europe and loved it. We said we needed to ride the bike in Australia before we could be confident of our assessment. Now we’ve ridden it here and it’s every bit as good as we thought. Maybe even better.
Australia is a unique continent in lots of ways. We have beaut animals and insects that can be lethal to foreigners if they just look at them, and to most of the rest of the world, the distance some of us travel on a weekend ride would have them needing passports and an interpreter.Another unique thing about Australia is the harsh environment. For adventure riders that’s mostly heat and dust, and the problem with other countries not understanding conditions here is that they make bikes that don’t last a day when, by Australian standards, it’s ‘a bit dusty’ or ‘frigging hot’.