The Strada 800: Fuel's retro Ducati cafe racer

What happens when a Ducati Scrambler rolls into a workshop famous for building tough vintage dirt bikes? Karles Vives of Fuel Bespoke Motorcycles is the organizer of Scram Africa, a rough-and-ready tour through the deserts of Morocco—so we expected him to ramp up the Scrambler's off-road cues. But he had another direction in mind when Ducati Spain knocked on his door. “After testing the Ducati Scrambler, the first idea was to convert it to a road bike,” he says. “And what better inspiration than the original Ducati 900 SS Desmo from the 70s?” Fuel's Strada 800 isn't the first Ducati...