The new Ducati DesertX Rally is a DesertX on steroids. A road legal but virtually ready-to-race adventure bike with beefed-up, long-travel suspension, enduro styling cues and a new wardrobe of racy components that drove a modified X to victory in the twin-cylinder class of the recent Iron Road Prologue at the Erzbergrodeo.
As well as KYB closed cartridge forks – a first on a production machine – with a whopping 250mm (about 9.84 inches) of travel, there's also a 46mm fully-adjustable KYB shock with 240mm (about 9.44 inches) of stroke and a remote preload adjuster. That's in addition to the not-so-small matter of 280mm (about 11 inches) of ground clearance, along with a vertiginous 910mm ( about 35.8 inch) seat height; the highest on any current production machine.
