Ducati Hypermotard is no doubt a beautiful piece of Italian motorcycle engineering. First time I saw it was at the Super Moto race Motodisiac and I went to last November. I really liked it back then. The second time was at the Long Beach motorcycle show a couple of months later. Then after reading some stuff online and watching some YouTube videos featuring this bike I started slowly falling in love with it. Hypermotard would be a very fun commuter bike. Obviously not a long distance runner as nothing tops the Futura seat comfort. But again most of my riding consists of commuting to and from my office. The last drop was last week when I browsed the new Aprilia Dorsoduro website. Somehow I felt compelled to get this kind of a motorcycle. My three options- Ducati Hypermotard, Aprilia Dorsoduro and KTM Super Duke. I did see a couple of Super Dukes in person and honestly pictures were more impressive than the bike in real life. Would still love to test ride it though. The Dorsoduro is not even on sale yet. That left me with one and only option - Ducati Hypermotard. I began looking into a possibility of a purchase.

I made a mistake of telling this to my good friend Motodisiac. That got him fired up. He’d started thinking about the Hypermotard too. By the way how cool would that be if we both bought the Hypermotards? We’d have 2 pairs of identical bikes. In any case last night we were talking on the phone. “Guess what I am doing right now”- Motodisiac had asked me. “I’m reading reviews on the Hypermotard, see what you did to me?”. Yeah, the idea of putting his hands on one really got into his head as well.

Hypermotard came out in 2007. Currently its MSRP is almost 12K with the S version running up to 15K. So there is not a big chance one can find a “good deal” on it. Regardless of this we will probably go to SoCal Ducati dealership in Brea. They told us they had one Hypermotard available for test rides. It would be unwise to pass up this opportunity.

Let the Hypermotard hysteria continue.

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