It is the little Devil floating over my throttle hand, ingeniously persuasive me to curl my wrist, loft up a wheelie, and slice during a slippery chicane with offensive levels of audacity.

Cannot refute this side of interior being, refute that it just might have met its ideal escort Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO SP. The EVO SP is top of Ducati's 3-bike Hypermotard line compared to the plain EVO, SP enjoys more ground clearance, an Ohlin’s back shock, upgraded and longer-travel 50mm forks, red-pinstriped wheels, taller bars, carbon fiber bits, special graphics, and a pair less pounds.

Not your normal trite traveler ride, but masterfully crafted, EVO SP is a decisively built specter of street and track. The hope of riding new high-end Hypermotard throughout a menagerie of indirect mountain roads makes riding speed limit in a directly line on highway feel like some sort of unkind joke.

Deep north on Apache Trail highway in Arizona's Tonto National Forest, husky exhaust note from possible single canister exhaust system is a fitting soundtrack to electrical storm flashing over Flatiron summit. The posture of EVO SP is intended to knife through turns with a longer Ohlins shock in rear matched to blacked-out 50mm up front.

On the road, illogical enthusiasm aggravated by my fiends does have boundaries. Having said that, with annoy scattered throughout winding mountain passes, sliding Hyper EVO through the turns is an inevitable end, and Pirelli Diablo Supercorsa SP tires, once at temperature, inspire confidence.

The close to terrestrial pull of new DesmoDue EVO motor is totally addicting, and with a peak torque of 77 ft/lbs at a simple 5750 rpm, the L-twin begs to be wheelies above every rise in the road. The completely redesigned 1078cc power plant forces out a full 95 horsepower, and uses the lightweight flywheel from the 848 Superbike

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