Ducati Monster Forum

I was in a bar chatting up a girl when the topic of transportation came up.  Mentioned I had a motorcycle and her response was "I bet it's a Ducati".  So I started to wonder, what do we look like?  What is it about us that says he/she owns a Ducati and not a Harley (as is very common where I live) or a Japanese bike?  And no I wasnt wearing my moto gear or have my Duc keys out....
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Better than average grooming and clothes?

Works the opposite for me, I dress like a skater at work, and everyone assumes that I ride some beat-up piece of shit. Surprises them when they do see me on the Monster, that is for sure.

Stopintime looks like a Ducati rider though, which is how I recognised him in Oslo!

is this you by any chance?  ;D

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/189057512_16a261cd59.jpg?v=0)

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That would do it.

I'm pretty sure I don't have "the ducati look".  The usual reaction when someone sees me with my bike is more along the lines of "are you sure that's yours"?

I know I don't have the "look". My wife says I just don't look like a sportbiker......I'm more of a scuzzy Harley rider.....and I have one of those, too.   [laugh]

In girltalk that is a nice way of saying you look damn good. Try telling a girl she looks like she would only own Chanel - you'll see what I mean [thumbsup]


 [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] Thank you, wish it was a girl who told me so. [moto]

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I've never been labled as a rider, takes the kids & new faculty each year forever to put me with the bike.  I even have 2 Ducati polo shirts.  The faculty just refer to me as the 'quiet one we worry about'  [laugh]

JM

i definitely dont fit the "ducati" look.  i look more like a punk that rides a clapped-out 95 ninja with broken plastics.  i have long hair, ive needed to shave for about a month, but it always looks that way, huge holes in my ears, and generally dirty looking clothes (75% of the time im wearing clothes that have oil stains on them and/or holes). 

i look like that dirt poor kid everyone knows that works crappy manual labor jobs because he hates dressing nice and hates dealing with 7 different bosses everytime something goes wrong...  wait, that is just like me.

I'm guessing it was the IZ_ Navel you'd just ordered... 












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You've got a scuzzy Harley rider? I've always wanted one of those. You keep him in the basement, kinda like Pulp Fiction?

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(http://www.therichjerk.com/press/style_lounge/Rich_Jerk.JPG)

I'm 6'3'' 240lbs.  Full beard, Shaved Head.  A couple Tattoos....   I look like I took a wrong turn on the way to the HD shop. 

I have noticed it not the look but the way you act, for example a sport biker always lugs around his helmet and says that he likes to do 170+ down the highway.  A harley driver well you know what they look like.  The Ducati'ist that we are, are always cool and collected (most of us any way) and just go yeah i ride and thats the end of it.  So thats how s/he knows that we ride a Ducati.

D00d! It's me! ... with hair!

You probably said something about soul while snobbishly raising your nose and sipping on an apple-tini. 







That's how they always spot me, too.

I don't know what the hell I look like (skinny jeans, mostly always black t shirts, stretched ears, my hair is usually always well kept and short with a kind of longer mohawk tail going on in the back, quite a few tattoos, I guess I do know what I look like) but my girlfriend says the bike suits me the most out of all the bikes I've owned (sport bikes, harley etc.). I take that as a compliment, I wouldn't make the beast with two backs with my bike if it was sitting in my seat at the bar.

Maybe it was just a lucky guess?  She's clearly a gold digger and was hoping you owned a Duck to size you up.  Run while you still can.

 [laugh] Best response yet!

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I was in Newport Beach sitting at the bar of an expensive steak house...  I think thats what it was... I'm 210, 6 foot, shaved head, jeans and shirt wearer, so I stand out in the man-blouse wearing crowd that goes there.  I'm there for the steaks.

Need not say more.  [thumbsup]

I thought the Ducati look involved an exhaust pipe, a helmet and little else?   [drink]

Yup, cuz ya know,  "If it has tits or tires, you're gonna have trouble with it!!" 

shoosh!

he doesn't need to knw about this thread...

Did you ride to the bar?


Maybe it is more simple than you think.  Not so much how you looked but maybe she saw your bike and put the 2 and 2 together

Latinbalar hit it square on the head.  

She chatted with you - then she knew you rode a ducati.  

We all look different - there is no ducati look that identifies us.  We're intelligent, articulate, and have fallen hopelessly in love with the damned things....  Ducatis are.  they just are.  they don't have, they're busting with character - just like us!!

I am a character... does that mean I have character?  ;)

I can't attest to you having character....but you ARE a character!!  :-*

Nope, was on four wheels that night.  Planned on a couple of  [drink] and doing that on the  [moto] would have caused this  [bang] or this  [leo]

Lauramonster, I think you're right.  Not so much a look but an attitude and presence...

Or maybe it is a bar that you both frequent; she has seen you ride to the bar; fell in love over your duc (I mean, who wouldnt fall for a duc) and has been patiently waiting to chit chat; manipulating the conversation so that "bike" speak would come up, "deduce" (while impressing you) that you ride a Duc; and now plans and waits for you to give her a ride on your MONSTER.

Maybe...maybe....

Run. Sounds like a stalker.

Well, I got it tonight. Popped down to the supermarket to pick up some last-minute things for dinner. Girl at the counter goes "mmm, I bet you ride a Ducati, don't you?"

I asked how she knew. "I heard it pull up. Only Ducatis are that loud".

In the case where you don't ride, I've got no additional clues.

I thought the look was the pinkie sticking out while drinking your espresso in front of Starbucks. (Okay... it's Mio Gelato over here... but whatever.)