Kawasaki ER6N vs Ducati Monster 696

Membandingkan antara Kawasaki ER6N vs Ducati Monster 696 ibarat membandingkan antara Yakuza vs Mafia. Biasanya di dalam brandnya keduanya berasal dari kelas yang sama. Nyatanya tidak, karena di Kawasaki ER6N merupakan line up mid-end alias menengah, sebaliknya Monster 696 merupakan anak bontot di keluarga ducati. Namun ketika dibadingkan head to head bisa dibilang Ducati unggul disemua lini. Mulai dari performa (Tenaga, Torsi hingga power to weight ratio) ergonomis seperti bobot dan suspensi (Upside down) hingga piranti keselamatan yang sudah menggunakan Brembo Radial. Jika ingin mencari dimana Kawasaki ER6N bisa mengungguli Monster 696 maka ER6N akan unggul pada komparasi harga, dan pada komparasi ini memang sudah tradisi bahwa Ducati selalu “kalah” kalo bicara harga

Pertempuran  kelas Moge, beda dengan kelas Konvensional

Harga dan jaringan 3S nggak menjadi parameter kemenangan. Selera, Prestis, Performa dan Komunitas lagi lagi bermain. Itu sebabnya di Indonesia hanya beberapa line up dari setiap brand yang mampu berkibar. Balik lagi ke ER6N vs Monster 696, berdasarkan catetan mbah, sejak 2010 30% konsumen Ducati   adalah bekas pemakai Ninja 250R. Sedangkan lebih dari 50% pemakai Supersport – Superbike jepang yang aktif dalam komunitas resmi pernah menjadi biker Ninja 250R. Namun ironisnya diantara 4 line up favorit Supersport Jepang, Kawasaki ZX6-R merupakan yang paling kurang diminati. Tetapi Kasus yang berbeda akan dialami oleh ER6N. Dengan selisih sekitar 80 jeti dengan Ducati Monster 696 peluang ER6N untuk berkibar cukup besar, karena sudah rahasia umum banyak bikers moge mengkombinasikan antara brand Ducati dengan jepang, semisal Monster 696 dengan YZF R1 atau kenapa tidak 1198SP dengan ER6N … why not?

souce : Indomotoblog

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2011 Ducati 1198SP First Ride

While very similar to the 2010 1198S, especially to the untrained eye, the SP now gets a host of go-fast goodies from last year’s 1198R. It’s for this reason an R edition will not be offered in 2011, Ducati deciding to condense its Superbike model range down to three for this coming year: The base 1198, 1198SP, and 848EVO (be sure to checkout our recent 2011 Ducati 848 EVO First Ride review for more information on the Italian middleweight).

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Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP

We're going to get ahead of ourselves a little bit with our review of the new Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP. We spend lots of time riding various two- and four-wheeled vehicles, and very few – indeed, possibly none at all – garner the same kind of ear-to-ear grins as Ducati's oversized supermoto. It's totally ridiculous and absolutely wonderful.
Speaking of which, the suspension geniuses at Marzhocchi also tuned the SP's upside-down forks specifically for this application. The newly blackened front tubes measure 50 millimeters in diameter, are treated to a Diamond-Like Coating and are adjustable for spring preload, compression and damping. The rear shock comes courtesy of Ohlins, and it adds separate high- and low-speed compression damping to the fork's stable of adjustability. Looking good so far.

Power from the 1100cc air-cooled V-twin comes on a tad bit slowly before the engine works itself into a frenzy in the higher stretches of the tach and then falls off a bit short before a shift light flashes on the dash. Sadly, it's more than a wee bit unhappy below 4,000 RPM or so, and it shakes exactly the same way as every other large-bore air-cooled Ducati mill we've ever tested. Some may call it character, and we're not exactly complaining ourselves. But as we said in our review of the Ducati Sport 1000, you sometimes feel like you're sitting atop an L-twin-powered paint shaker from Home Depot at low revs and large throttle openings. The good news, though, is that the engine feels so great about halfway through its rev range that you soon learn to subconsciously keep it in its sweet spot. Problem solved, then, right? Plus, there's one more intoxicating payoff for keeping the engine on the boil.

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