I got orders yesterday to Quantico, Va for next July from here in Okinawa where I have been stationed the last year. I have a 2006 S4R Final Edition and looking at picking up a Hypermoto S once I get out there. Since the bike will have been stored for two years, I will need new tires and I'll have the belts changed. What reputable shops are down in that area...if anyone knows. I have been riding a Honda XR250R Jap spec Motard here and it wll be nice to be back on the Monster. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am looking at living near Dale City, Woodbridge, or Independece Hill.
Well Japan to D.C. should be an interesting change for you.
Check the sticky at the top of the CAM thread for Local shops. That'll get you started.
Go to Fairfax, it's about 20% Asian, you'll feel right at home, plenty of korean and japanese markets.
Sadly there are no shops in your area, Coleman's Woodbridge does not have a Ducati Tech last time I checked. From your proposed living area all the Duc dealers with a tech will be a haul. Due to traffic, it will probably be just as easy and a nice ride to go to Duc Pond via backroads than to go up to Battley's, with I-95, Beltway,and I-270 almost a parking lot most of the time. Coleman's Falls Church supposedly has a new tech that knows what he is doing but that is only based on limited experience so far. - Gene
Quote from: Tim on September 21, 2009, 01:21:38 PM
One of our members recently returned from Japan and brought back a Monster 400. While it's cook, I'd love to have it's brother. Wonder if you might be interested in facilitating the locating and export of a Japan-spec 1992 or 1993 Ducati 400SS? Something like this:
(http://homepage1.nifty.com/cho-san/history/ducati400ss.jpg)
Tim
Good luck on that.
The Japan market 400SS was made between 1989 and 1997 actually, with a good number of them going to Australia.
You will spend a lot of money getting it imported legally -- since no similar model was sold in the USA, you'll have to get it EPA tested and NHTSA tested -- the EPA testing alone can run several grand for a single vehicle.
And FYI that photo is of a later model, probably a '94 or 95. The mirrors give it away.