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Title: Monster 795 first ride Post by: bob795 on June 16, 2012, 09:17:16 AM I took my Monster 795 out for a spin today. It's my first ride on a Ducati.
When I left home, I had no idea how the bike will handle, especially how it will handle in heavy traffic jam. Handling in really slow moving traffic jam is important for me, cause I plan to commute on this bike, and about 50% of my daily ride will be spent in really heavy traffic, crawling at less than 10 kph. So after I fill up the tank, I go to area with heavy traffic, which is quite easy to find in Jakarta on Saturdays, just go to any shopping malls area, and you will find heavy, crawling traffic there. Anyway, turns out my bike rides and handles really well in slow moving traffic, stop and go traffic. It's really nimble, agile and light, that filtering through traffic is really easy. Slow ridding at 5 kph is easy. On my Sportster, one thing that I love to do is to tail a scooter. Pick any scooter and closely follow it, tail it in slow moving traffic. I had no problem doing that on Monster 795, in fact it's a lot easier to do on the Monster. In slow moving traffic I have a winner here. Then on normal traffic, it's really a winner. Lane splitting, which I do all the time, is really fun and easy on this bike despite the wide stock mirror, which BTW is not a problem at all. I thought the width of the stock mirrors would be a bit of problem when lane splitting, but turns out it's not a problem at all. I find that riding the monster, to me, strangely feels like not riding at all. It's difficult to explain ... but when riding it, the bike feels like it's just not there, feels like like it disappears from underneath me. It feels like I was walking or something, it's like I can change direction just by thinking about changing direction, effortless. In summary, I really love this Monster. I bought it cause I really love how it looks, now after riding it I really love how it handles, how it rides. It's a great bike. ;D Thanks for listening guys. bob Title: Re: Monster 795 first ride Post by: d3vi@nt on June 16, 2012, 09:21:12 AM [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Monster 795 first ride Post by: Curmudgeon on June 16, 2012, 05:55:27 PM Hmmm... Yes, the newer monsters become an extension of your body. All true. You might want to fit a 14T front sprocket to help with the slow traffic. You'll still have plenty of top end. ;)
Title: Re: Monster 795 first ride Post by: mrpetebojangles on June 17, 2012, 08:08:47 AM It's interesting how you mentioned the bike feeling like its apart of you... I always tell people this and generally get weird looks back.
Title: Re: Monster 795 first ride Post by: bob795 on June 17, 2012, 11:18:30 PM curmudgeon, thanks I'll ask the dealership about the 14T front sprocket.
mrpetebojangles, good to know that I'm not the only one who think that way... I thought it was something I smoked ;D Anyway, I commute on the bike today, first time commuting on this bike and it just confirm my previous experience. Heavy Monday morning traffic was not a problem at all. Weaving and filtering through traffic was really fun. Really love it. bob |