At Intermot in Germany, after months of teasing previews on social media and at locations around the world, Italian manufacturer Ducati unveiled Tuesday its new for 2015 Scrambler motorcycle, an affordable update on a retro-classic design aimed at a new generation of riders, that will also appeal to those who remember Ducati’s first motorcycle built for the U.S. market in 1962 and carrying the same Scrambler name.
The Scrambler is a light 800cc air-cooled twin cylinder-powered motorcycle built for the street or modest off-pavement enduro riding with a price around $8,600. It is light and agile, weighing 375 pounds dry, with wide handlebars for easy control and a comfortable seating position. It is built on a familiar-looking steel Trellis frame and features knobby Pirelli tires capable on both the street or on the trail. Design incorporates retro styling elements, such as a tear-drop shaped fuel tank with side logo panels.
An affordable way to enter the Ducati experience. It is intended as a motorcycle far easier to handle, more accessible and cheaper to maintain than Ducati’s Superbike line and even its street-friendly Monster line. Ducati says that the Scrambler is a play for the retro market to attract young hipsters who may not have ridden motorcycles before, women…and even Boomers who have known The Scrambler of the 60’s and 70’s and the small British and Japanese bikes it competed with. “A perfect mix of tradition and modernity, a stride towards the pure essence of motorcycling” Ducati’s promo material says.
Looks good. Reminds me of the Honda Scrambler of the late 60’s.
Ducati always comes up with surprises and very well made motorcycles. Very few get recalled.
see you can have modern and old school at same time…nice job. Should be a hell of a fun ride.
Practically everyone across the Net seems to be spewing out hatred towards this bike. Personally ? I don’t get it . The hatred that is . In my opinion it looks every bit a Ducati and every bit what a Ducati ‘ Scrambler’ should look like . Functional with a dash of Italian styling .
So perhaps the hatred is coming from all those envious custom builders who’s Hinkley Trumpy Scrambler customs ….. don’t look half as good as this ‘ Factory ‘ effort ?
Hmmmn 😉
Will sell very well.
Looks like they’ve made the business decision to go after the hipster crowd like everyone else; but will it tarnish the Ducatisti Italian cosmopolitan image?
Colorado kid?
What you talking about?
Colorado Kid makes answers to statements not in previous comments! Talking in circle about imaginary comments from other readers. Lol.
Quietly Ducati/Audi has overtaken the BMW R-NineT, Triumph, Moto Guzzi and at least 100,000 garage builders…
All we need is for more young people to start riding again.
Nice bike, with out a radiator………………..yay
Neat looking light bike, I would have liked to hear the bike instead of the music, but that’s okay. I’m sure it has a very Ducatti sound… gonna have to find one on youtube I guess and give it a listen.
Wow! Flashback to the 450 Diana.
Gonna have to wrangle a test ride
Hate to say it, but if I was looking entry, this, to me is a better options than the HD Street entries. Nice looking bikes. No radiator.
This is the new Sportster!!! The folks in Milwaukee who know H-D history should be ashamed. Ducati has done what Milwaukee refuses to do. Build a cool, light, simple, do everything motorcycle with actual performance. This is what the XLCH was and should be again. Look at a picture of a 1962-1967 XLCH. This Ducati is an evolution of that bike.
Seems to me a few folks here need to read all the online chatter going on about this bike elsewhere before posting negative comments about another’s informed and proactive vs reactive commentary
ColoradoKid – – I dont see the negative comments you are bitchin about – What are you talking about?
Ducati, you just seem to always know when to make the Right Moves. MV Agusta Sold High & Bought them back Low! Beautiful Life Style & Bike for $8,600. What a Concept.
The negative chatter about this bike is almost exclusively from wealthy squids who think Ducati is watering down their precious superbike DNA.
Most other folks just want to get a Scrambler, hit the road or dirt track and enjoy riding it.
The Motor Company has ignored the off-road Sportster concept forever. I built one, an 883, for myself with pleasing results and it does great for on road/off road. Triumph tried half heartedly. I had their 900 Scrambler for a while, but it didn’t quite “get it done.” Looks like Ducati heard the call and got it right I hope. I’ll probably add one to the fleet.
Wow….!!!
What we wouldn’t have given for a ” light 800cc air-cooled Scrambler”…..
Way cool.
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