Ducati turns 100 this year, and for 20 of those years it has been making Hypermotards. But for me, this marks 20 years of not feeling like a good enough hooligan to deserve a Hypermotard.
I grew up fascinated by lads pulling stonking great wheelies at lean angles I was struggling to achieve with both wheels planted. Skids, stoppies, and rolling burnouts for miles; supermoto riders were and still are gods in my eyes. The problem was, I wasn’t good at all that hooligan stuff, and a Hypermotard would only highlight that and make me feel even worse about my abilities.
