1199 TerraCorsa
Fri, 25 Oct 2013
Looking like something from Mission Impossible II, this 1199 Panigale S has been given the off-road treatment by MotoCorsa, a Ducati dealer based across the pond in Portland.
The bike features a Desert Storm paint job, a stock 1199 exhaust and a custom crash guard. MotoCorsa’s General Manager Arun Sharma said that they “dropped the forks as low as we could in the triple and raised the shock’s ride height as much as possible; the idea being to max out the ground clearance.”
“There’s all these guys saying ‘that’s so stupid’ or ‘why would you ruin a good bike like that?’ Well, why not just have some fun and be silly?”
The bike’s been taken on a 1200 mile adventure and apparently performed faultlessly across all kinds of terrain.
MotoCorsa plan to make another video where the bike is taken off-road again, then driven into the garage before being prepared for a track day.
By Tom Higham
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