The Diavel is the King Daddy in this yard
numbers do not lie even as they hurt you.
The Diavel weighs 244kg, makes 159 horses
and 129Nm of torque. The VROD weighs
303kg, makes 103 horses and 98Nm of
torque. What else ya wanna talk about?
“Yeah, well my Harley FXDR will eat it!” No,
Rocko, it won’t. Harley’s 1600cc FXDR allegedly
makes 160Nm of torque, which is really nice.
But it’s flat out finding 90 horses among
that lot. And it weighs 303kg. It might be
the best Harley Milwaukee’s ever built, but
it’s just an obstacle for the Diavel to pass.
And right on cue came the Rocket III
champions. The new one is not here, so we
cannot argue about what no-one has yet ridden.
The current 2300cc Pom does the 1260cc
Italian in torque. That English lump makes a
40 KIWI RIDER
big 221Nm. But it only produces 143 horses.
And it weighs 334kg. Now allow me to
drive the final nail into those dream-filled
coffins. The Diavel will outhandle them all.
Not by a little, either. By quite a lot. Yeah.
Or did you imagine Ducati would produce
a bike that didn’t go around corners?
The only bike to ever come near the
Diavel in terms of performance and maybe
handling was Yamaha’s defunct V-Max –
but even it’s astonishing 173 horses and
153Nm was mitigated by its 315kg heft.
Make no mistake...
The Diavel is the King Daddy in this yard.