educational questions

[cdc]

thanks for clearing that up chuck!
everyone on the forum, make no mistake, I love my ducs and want more.  I just like motorcycles, all kinds.

I do too except it's not possible to own all that I want so I stick to the ones I have.

Oh and that's Charles to you bubba.   

cdc

[Cyclone]

everyone on the forum, make no mistake, I love my ducs and want more.  I just like motorcycles, all kinds. 

I ride motorcycles without regard to color, creed, or national origin !  EQUAL OPPORTUNITY RIDER !!  God Bless America !!

[Bonwilder]

I think a perfect solution to this debate is for ommyta to go and buy a GSXR and hand the 1098s down to me! (with or without properly working clutch, I'm really not too picky)

[cdc]

I think a perfect solution to this debate is for ommyta to go and buy a GSXR and hand the 1098s down to me! (with or without properly working clutch, I'm really not too picky)

Now that is what she said!   

cdc

[Bonwilder]

Now that is what she said!   

cdc

I've got one vote......anybody second that??

[cdc]

I've got one vote......anybody second that??

My wife says you have her vote too. 

He just says he likes the duc but he is really jonesing for a gixxer isn't he?

cdc

[Bonwilder]

My wife says you have her vote too. 

He just says he likes the duc but he is really jonesing for a gixxer isn't he?

cdc

The gixxer was his first bike....guess you never get over the first one, huh??  Anyway, I'm trying to talk him into trading in the R1 for a gixxer, for my own personal sanity, of corse.  I don't think I can hear any more of it!   Tell your wife thanks for the vote...it will not hurt my feelings to ride the 1098!

[Slag]

The R1 LE was a great bike. For $18k though I wanted more than Ohlins suspension and Marchesini wheels.
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[svoloch]

frankly,  I don't have a good reason for liking DUCs over jap bikes.  At least when I rode BMW bikes, I could point to some things, German engineering, reliability, comfort, smoothness ( like riding a 2001 K1200RS for 16 hours with only pee, gas, and water breaks, charging the cell phone off the built in adapter, and a y-plug so I could keep the mp3 player plugged in at the same time.  I would get off with no cramping in wrist, back, neck, or anything else, and I could charge the phone or ipod off the adapter overnight, get up the next morning, toss the sleeping bag in the side bag, and start up the bike on the first button press )

i bought the duc because I wanted to go faster than the BMWs.  why not buy a jap bike?  those are fast, reliable...  dunno.  sex appeal?  corner exit speed ( is this even really true, or just something we tell ourselves? ) wanted a big v-twin?  wanted to blow wads of cash on maintenance?  I really don't know.  It wasn't a brain decision, it was a visceral gut decision that I never regret for a second.  This is my first duc, and I'm absolutely in love with it...  in a way that I never was with the BMW ( and I did love that bike ).

i've looked at a lot of other bikes as potential second bikes, BMWs, Triumphs, but I keep coming back to looking at another Ducati.  Don't know what it will end up being, but I know that it won't be a japanese bike, and that there is absolutely no good reason why not.

[svoloch]

Or you could buy a 22hp Honda like Peter Lenz rides and school the crap out of literbikes on the track

<sigh>  this happens to me while skiing too....