Road test: Ducati 750 Sport

Start with your basic Italian streetbike named desire. Shave off a few pricey embellishments to put the asking price within reach of a proletarian checkbook, and presto! For $7895, the common person reaches up from the monotony of common motorcycling to Ducati's 750 Sport--the first rung of Ing. Fabio Taglioni's Ladder to Desmodromic Nirvana. That's the idea anyway...