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So after a 14hr round trip drive in the pouring rain and fog, I'm back from the motorcycle show in San Mateo.
First and foremost, the Scrambler is awesome and was a big hit with a wide cross section of people interested in it, both sexes and all sizes and shapes. I kept going back to the booth every 1/2 hour or so just to sit on the Icon again and kept running into the same people doing the same thing. Ironically, the description of the bike in my fantasy road test (see other section) was right on. I'm 5' 11" , 175 lbs. with a 32" inseam. The bike fit me great both sitting and standing. As mentioned in my road test, the seat, in fact, does have a slight forward slant and is probably my only complaint about the bike but that's an easy fix. Oh yeah, the ugly charcoal canister has to mysteriously loosen and accidentally fall off.
The yellow Icon was the only bike you could sit on. There was no red Icon. The 3 other models had a rope around them and were off limits as they were, as I was told, "very delicate", pre-production prototypes. The Terminoni dual slip on muffler on the Full Throttle was actually plastic. The Icon was in a wheel chuck so I couldn't throw it side to side to feel the weight (or lack thereof). Of course, after looking at every picture on the internet and watching every video and reading every article, there were no surprises looking at the real deal, which is a good thing. The key was in the bike when I first arrived, but by the time I got hold of the manager to ask him to open the seat and show me the USB port and also turn on the headlight, the key had been removed by another Ducati person and he wasn't there. Too bad.
I was told that the dealers should have the accessory information today but my dealer hasn't gotten it yet.
Delivery of the first Icons will be March. Oh yeah !! The ABS can be shut off. I was shown how to do it and it's simple.
I took a few pictures to show ergonomic size ratio both with my feet on the pegs and on the ground. I just have to figure out how to upload them on here.
If anyone has any specific questions, let me know. Five months ???? How will I survive ?
First and foremost, the Scrambler is awesome and was a big hit with a wide cross section of people interested in it, both sexes and all sizes and shapes. I kept going back to the booth every 1/2 hour or so just to sit on the Icon again and kept running into the same people doing the same thing. Ironically, the description of the bike in my fantasy road test (see other section) was right on. I'm 5' 11" , 175 lbs. with a 32" inseam. The bike fit me great both sitting and standing. As mentioned in my road test, the seat, in fact, does have a slight forward slant and is probably my only complaint about the bike but that's an easy fix. Oh yeah, the ugly charcoal canister has to mysteriously loosen and accidentally fall off.
The yellow Icon was the only bike you could sit on. There was no red Icon. The 3 other models had a rope around them and were off limits as they were, as I was told, "very delicate", pre-production prototypes. The Terminoni dual slip on muffler on the Full Throttle was actually plastic. The Icon was in a wheel chuck so I couldn't throw it side to side to feel the weight (or lack thereof). Of course, after looking at every picture on the internet and watching every video and reading every article, there were no surprises looking at the real deal, which is a good thing. The key was in the bike when I first arrived, but by the time I got hold of the manager to ask him to open the seat and show me the USB port and also turn on the headlight, the key had been removed by another Ducati person and he wasn't there. Too bad.
I was told that the dealers should have the accessory information today but my dealer hasn't gotten it yet.
Delivery of the first Icons will be March. Oh yeah !! The ABS can be shut off. I was shown how to do it and it's simple.
I took a few pictures to show ergonomic size ratio both with my feet on the pegs and on the ground. I just have to figure out how to upload them on here.
If anyone has any specific questions, let me know. Five months ???? How will I survive ?
