Speed Read, June 12, 2022 - motorcycles

Speed Read, June 12, 2022



This week’s custom cocktail includes a Looney Tunes-themed Ducati, a no-holds-barred BMW R18 and a fine-tuned Triumph Scrambler 1200. Plus details of Europe’s first all-electric bike festival.

Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled by MotoCorsa If anyone’s going to send us a Looney Tunes-themed Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled to feature, it’s the Ducati dealership that gave us the Manigale calendar. The team at MotoCorsa in Portland likes to keep their hometown weird?and it shows in the custom bikes they create.

The story of this whacky Desert Sled starts with ex-NBA pro, Martell Webster, who originally commissioned it. He was partly inspired by Space Jam, and by how his grandmother used to keep him out of trouble by making him watch cartoons. So he got Eddie Slepicka of Bent Metal Customs to paint a set of Looney Tunes graphics all over it, while MotoCorsa attended to a wish list of trick parts. The first set of upgrades included an Arrow exhaust, and a hydraulically-actuated dry slipper clutch from Kbike to replace the OEM wet clutch. Not only does it look rad, but it gives the bike that essential ?hey bro something’s wrong with your clutch? Ducati rattle.

Martell originally used the bike to chase his kids around on their minibikes, but soon realized that a Zero electric bike was better suited to the task. So he asked MotoCorsa to sell it for him.
The bike sat for far too long?until the annual One Show rolled around, and MotoCorsa needed something...
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