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So my criticism is unwarranted? your article on the Ducati Diablo, Drivel, Desperado, whatever that stupid ass motorcycle is called What does the Diavel do that the Triumph Rocket III doesn’t already? How about the obvious inconsistency of having a hot rod design brief and then loading the motorcycle with all kinds of electronic bric-a-brac. Do you even know what a hot rod is? First rule of hot rodding is simplicity. Mechanical elegance with less electronic complexity.
I don't think he likes it much, as best as I can tell by the sweet things he has to say about it. 
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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