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zLoki
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The Ducati Look... What do you think?
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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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Quote from: zLoki on September 10, 2008, 12:52:38 AM
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....
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!
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Re: The Ducati Look... What do you think?
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is this you by any chance?
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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"?
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Re: The Ducati Look... What do you think?
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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.
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Quote from: zLoki on September 10, 2008, 12:52:38 AM
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....
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
Quote from: ellingly on September 10, 2008, 01:01:47 AM
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Stopintime looks like a Ducati rider though, which is how I recognised him in Oslo!
Thank you, wish it was a girl who told me so. [moto]
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Quote from: stopintime on September 10, 2008, 05:06:21 AM
Thank you, wish it was a girl who told me so. [moto]
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'
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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.
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I'm guessing it was the IZ_ Navel you'd just ordered...
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Quote from: Desmo Demon on September 10, 2008, 04:12:35 AM
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.
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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Quote from: the_Journeyman on September 10, 2008, 06:31:08 AM
The faculty just refer to me as the 'quiet one we worry about'
JM
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Re: The Ducati Look... What do you think?
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Quote from: zLoki on September 10, 2008, 12:52:38 AM
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?
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.
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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.
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Quote from: DuCaTiNi on September 10, 2008, 02:39:30 AM
is this you by any chance?
D00d! It's me! ... with hair!
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