re ducati opinions wanted in article qmnga s q news ysu edu ak yfn ysu edu albion h bowers writes in a previous article bgardner pebbles es com blaine gardner says i guess i m out of touch but what exactly is the ducati a v twin desmo or is it that half a v twin with the balance weight where the nd cylinder would go a second for a isn t bad at all sorry i should have been more specific the ss ran the quater in the last small v twin duc we got in the us and the is a pantah based v twin was the sl pantah and it ran a creditable modern carbs and what not should put the in the high s at btw fzr s ran mid s and the latest crop of japanese s will out run that it s hard to remember but but a new goof will clobber an old kz handily both in top end and roll on technology stands still for no one not too hard to remember i bought a gs new in it was rd place in the speed wars behind the cbx xs eleven with a mile and horses that wouldn t even make a good these days then again i paid for it so technology isn t the only thing that s changed of course i d still rather ride the old gs across three states than any of the s i guess it s an indication of how much things have changed that a second didn t seem too far out of line blaine gardner evans sutherland bgardner dsd es com
