I owned and rode one of these for 3 or 4 years before Buying a KTM the cagiva is a great bike. The engine is really well set up for style of the bike with loads of low down grunt. The chassis is excellent and the bike performed great on two up tours into and around Europe. It will lug heavy loads and cope with most terrain fairly well. Build quality is always a subject that comes up and I found the engine fine if well looked after however ancillary bits and chassis parts were not as they should have been. (Cracks in the wheels at the spoke ends, wheel bearing failure and corrosion were all a problem maybe more so than other european bikes but all in all its a great bike (saddle is a killer mind). Spares were also another problem with terrible waiting times for parts and that was what ended it for me with the bike. At the travellers meet in Derby I was Talking to a young lad who had just travelled Eastern Europe and the Stans on one but he had a few engine problems but it got him there and back - much of it down to his excellent mechanical ability.
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