Enjoyed your review by the way. Few things to add.
Agree, horn is an embarrassment. The bell on my daughters training wheel equipped bicycle is more aggressive.
Heated grips are a must add imo, if you get the R or TFC. But the switch is stupidly hard to activate in gloves.
Talking of stupid switches, the indicator borders on dangerous. Never mind the ‘brief press for 3 seconds, long press for smart cancel ‘ nonsense, I’d settle for it actually working first time I hit it, every time.
Keyless ignition is awesome. My last two Ducati’s had it with zero issues - if the Italians can make it work, then anyone can. Another advantage of the Rocket over the Diavel is that you can leave the petrol cap unlocked. I’m genuinely not concerned that someone might try to siphon out my gas (is that even still a thing?), but having to use the key when you want to fill up sucks.
The switch with the ‘house’ on it, activates the steering lock. It’s quick and it works.
Regarding the rest of the switchgear iconography, I don’t know what they are smoking. You’ve got the joystick nonsense on the left bar, and another menu button on the right bar. Then someone obviously went, aha, having two confusing switch systems to operate the bikes functions, what we really need is a 3rd button to get into the riding mode selector.... And whilst on that, the rain icon is self evident. The straight road icon is when you want your bike to be a slightly worse version of itself - suggest leaving that alone. The sports version is a more normal setup. The crash helmet one is one you can program yourself, if you absolutely, positively want to do stuff like turning off the abs and traction control (good luck with that project)
Oh and finally, my welcome message simply says ‘Let’s melt’. I’m sure someone can do better than that in 13 characters or less though, let’s hear your best ones.
And finally finally, to the ‘if I wanted a Diavel’ commentator - I took a few pics of my bike yesterday. Three separate people came up to me with their phones and asked me to take pictures of them standing next to it. I took it to the Ace Cafe (biker haunt), and any time I looked out to check on it, there were people taking pictures. This bike is not the same as a Diavel, and you can take that to the Banca.
