Hooliganism Takes A Step Up As Does The Ducati Scrambler. Time To Unleash Some Mayhem.
It’s been three years since the Scrambler first laid treadmarks on our hallowed soil. It’s also been one of the few things to make this world a slightly better place. I say this because this Scrambler family is a concoction of Ducati lineage and heritage that’s perfectly capable of making an absolute mockery of all things civil, while still making you look as cool as a hipster avocado on wheels. And in a world where everyone takes themselves a little too seriously, it’s good to have a machine that’s designed to cause nothing but mayhem. When the dimunitive 803cc Scrambler first launched in India, it didn’t receive the warmest welcome; mostly because we Indians have the inherent tendency to wildly overcompensate for a lack of, well, you know what. That wasn’t the case globally, though. The Scrambler makes up for a third of Ducati’s worldwide sales, so it’s obviously got the right elements in all the right places. It isn’t just for the horde of factory produced beard-clad, crew-cut hipsters that love sipping on a dainty little glass of wine when nobody’s looking. The beard is just a distraction, trust me. But Ducati’s addressed these feelings of inadequacy and created an even wilder, bigger version of the Scrambler, the 1100. See, everyone’s happy now.
This story is from the October 2018 edition of Motoring World.
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