Ducati DesertX

The Ducati DesertX is a 937 cc dual-sport motorcycle that Ducati released in 2022. It was first shown as a prototype built on the contemporary Scrambler at EICMA in 2019, made its definitive debut in December 2021 and reached the market in May 2022. Jérémy Faraud designed it, and its styling deliberately recalls the Cagiva Elefant of the 1980s and 1990s, a twice winner of the Paris-Dakar that carried a Ducati twin-cylinder engine, with a livery that refers to the Lucky Explorer Elefant. The liquid-cooled Testastretta 11 degree L-twin with desmodromic valves gives 110 horsepower at 9,250 rpm and 92 Nm of torque at 6,500 rpm, in a steel trellis frame with 46 mm Kayaba upside-down forks and 230 mm of wheel travel, and Ducati claims a dry weight of 211 kilograms.