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The result is an immense, compulsive response to the merest hint of the twistgrip that has the Diavel hurtling forward regardless of revs and you giggling like an idiot, then gasping as you kick it up a gear and the relentless thrust redoubles its efforts.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The other controls are pure bicycle - front and rear brake levers and the three-speed gears operated by a twistgrip on the right bar.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The other controls are pure bicycle - front and rear brake levers and the three-speed gears operated by a twistgrip on the right bar.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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We use their five speed hub with twistgrip control to give a smooth easy shifting wide range of practical gears.
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Like we've seen on recent Yamahas, Aprilias and other sportsbikes, the twistgrip on the new Multistrada has no throttle cable at all - instead, it's got a spring and a sensor that feeds all throttle inputs into the bike's ECU before it decides exactly how much fuel to squirt and how much air to suck in.
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