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Of course, you haven't!  Not yet anyway.   [cheeky]

Ran into this trio of superbikes in Ojai this weekend during DIMBY.  Bayliss, Yellow 1098..

(http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss158/izaac10_album/IMG_1189.jpg)

and this little one-of-a-kind.  
The one and only..  [evil]
(http://i571.photobucket.com/albums/ss158/izaac10_album/IMG_1190.jpg)
I'll let SacDuc tell the story behind it's existance.  

BTW..yes, that is the aluminum tank.

I wonder if next year we'll see the 848S finally come to life.
Triumph has the Daytona 675R.
MV Agusta will have the F3.

Both are/will be a bit cheaper than an 848 and are just as or even more exotic. Ducati has to respond with something.

My buddy Rick (Madduck, in Hawaii) has an 848 that is probably as close to an S as they'll come.  He slapped all the purdy Ohlins bits on it, then HyperS calipers and RCS master cylinders.  Sweet machine that thing is.

i sort of doubt it... they're moving to the new sbk next year i believe... and i dunno if they will be making the 848 equiv right out of the gates, but i'm sure it'll be there within a year or so of the launch of the 1xxx sbk's.

if there is going to be a s version, pretty sure they'll do it for the new sbk, not this gen's.

Could be, but I don't think we'll see an 848 replacement next year yet, maybe at the end of 2012 as an 2013 model. So they still need a 2012 model, and what's left to improve; TC & suspension. Ducati at some point at least has thought about doing an 848S model as it was imprinted in the side panels in the beginning.

We'l just have to wait and see I guess.

^^ This^^

The tank came from a a recked 1098.

My guess is that the full story is this: A child is born. It is unwanted, ignored and raised mostly by housekeepers. At age 16 the child decides he ants to ride motorcycles. And he knows he'll get one. The best one. Because his parents, shortly of after the divorce, started buying this child things to ease their occassional pangs of guilt about being shitty parents. Mom, ho has been trying to one-up Dad for years anyway, acquiesces to her son's demand for a motorcycle. And only the best for her son, because after all it reflects on her too.

So the boy and his Mom leave the Montecito hills and head down to Santa Barbara Ducati. And the salesman sees fit to sell a 16 year old boy ith no riding experience a motorcycle ith 180hp. Mom signs the papers and rites the check. The boy, all suited up in his shiny leathers, rides the bike away from the dealership following his Mom's Mercedes/Land Rover/7 Series. Getting on the on ramp for his very first freeway ride something goes wrong. The boy grabs a fist full of that front brake. The bike and the rider tumble down the road ass over tea kettle flip flip flip and end up running into the back of Mom's car. Miraculously the tank is undamaged.

Santa Barbara Ducati sells the tank to the owner of the bike pictured above.

The End.

sac

I could see them maybe cranking out an "S" version at the end of the 848 life cycle as a commemorative model. Personally I think they should have made the Hayden 848 an "S". It would have been the perfect time and bike. I don't know how well they sold but having the Ohlins "S" bits would have surely clinched the deal a bit faster. Having base, "S" and "R" models have been the staple of Ducati for a long time.

also... ducati doesnt really seem to make S models of the smaller engined bikes... which makes some sense as the literbikes tend to be the ones that really need race level mods.  i think they always sort of placed the 848 as the streetbike version of their sbk's (aka wet clutch).

They didn't?  Wow!  I wonder where those 748 & 749S's of the world came from then...

 [roll]

They made "S" and "R" versions of the 748 and 749. The 848 is the only one not to get an upgraded version.

Beautiful story, I thought you were older than 16? 



;D

 [laugh] [laugh]

After I let Jeff at AMS do his thing to my 848 it'll be close to an 'S' model. I just have to pay the man for my Ohlïns suspension and motorwork.

thats because i'm an idiot and didnt even think about those... haha

I am waiting on the 848eH (extra heavy).  That way, my fat ass won't be 100% of the problem.

perfect place for this...

(http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252187_174933672563369_100001402122676_423987_174631_n.jpg)