Why did you choose a Ducati?

[the_Journeyman]

Sound, look, uniqueness.  I've seen only 1 other Monster like mine in my local area.  I've never seen another SS at all in my local area.  My 1st four bikes were Suzuki's and I've owned another since, but sold it because it lacked any soul and replaced it with my 900SS

JM

[ghosthound]

because the first time i saw a monster, the feeling i got was nothing like anything ive experienced before... It stirs up an emotion that a sportbike is not capable of, yes that even includes the almighty Desmosedici...

From a distance, pretty much all sportbikes look identical...

[Raux]

I've been pretty much a car/bike nut all my life, and italians are the ultimate. Lamborghini (cause he told Enzo screw off) and Ducati are the tops. Now since a Lambo is a bit beyond my reach, Ducati is the next best, well that and a Maserati, Alfa, etc. you get the point.

Anyway, chose the new monster cause wanted the upright feel with the handling, had looked at STs to a 749, but when i saw the Pearl White Monster... I knew i would be getting another monster (99 City was first one).

BUT now that i have the bike, and sold off my project Fiat 124 spider... i'm thinking about starting a project SS. so i'm looking for a older broken bike i can rebuild part by part. that or a Lambo Jalpa on the cheap 

[Privateer]

I like things that are relatively unique.  You can't swing a dead travel gnome around SoCal without hitting a gsxr/cbr/zx/r sportbike.  Originally I was going to get a kawi 650R, but when i learned a used monster was similar price and similar ergos, I knew that was what I wanted.  I always presumed (like a lot of people) that anything labeled "ducati" was out of my price range.  I'm glad I was proved wrong by a concerned duc rider.


Regards
Andy

[bishop]

Love the name, the cult/following, the looks, the sound and last and the most important, I love the way bike rides!!

Was looking at the SV650, gladius, Street Triple and the monster for my next bike. Didn't want Tom's, Dick's or Harry's SV650, The Gladuis looked like puke shaped into a bike and some how cost only $900 less then the 696 and the Insurance was reaming me on Street triple. So monster it was. As much as I do not like alot of Italian things, they did something very very right here!!!!

[Goat_Herder]

watching the SBK races as a kid, the images beautiful red Ducati rocketing to the finish lines have stuck with me.  Love the look of the bike and love what the brand represent.  But I had always thought Ducati is way out of my range.  Just something you have when you are 1) very sucessful or 2) a racer. 

When I was out to shop for a bike, I started with your typical japanese bikes.  Some small cruisers, for commuting.  One day, I saw an used Monster at a shop.  It immediately caught my eyes.  Just out of curiocity (for sh!ts and giggle), I asked for the price.  I CAN AFFORD A DUCATI!!!!  I knew then, the Ducati Monster is THE bike for me.

[somegirl]

Because it was short and fit me better than my first bike, and it looked sexy.

[duccarlos]

The guy at my local Starbucks looked cool sipping his latte while standing next to it. I needed to look that cool.

[Raux]

The guy at my local Starbucks looked cool sipping his latte while standing next to it. I needed to look that cool.

that was me and i am cool so you can try

[ducatiz]

The guy at my local Starbucks looked cool sipping his latte while standing next to it. I needed to look that cool.

i thought it was your quest to teabag all the ducatis in teh world?

[duccarlos]

Not all of them, just the ones from owners that live in Indiana.

[jakem696]

5.) As a vertically challenged person I did not have many options and the Monster has a low seat height.


One of the reason I picked Ducati Monster. ..Lol....
But I've owned Honda, Kawazaki and Suzuki sportsbikes, and wanted something a little more exotic.
It seems like theres 10 honkayazuki for every one  ducati on the road in my town. 

[ducpainter]

The guy at my local Starbucks looked cool sipping his latte while standing next to it. I needed to look that cool.

Look how you will...

you will never be cool.

[RBX QB]

My best friend made me.

About 3 years ago, he told me that not only had he taken the MSF class, but he had bought a bike 3 months prior without telling me. I knew there was only 1 bike I wanted... the Monster. I had seen one years ago at... wait for it... Starbucks.

I went to the dealer for a 620 Dark, and only had to see the swingarm and cans of the S2R for about 10 seconds before I realized that it was the bike I was ACTUALLY there to pick up.

At the time I ordered the bike, I hadn't EVER ridden before (neither had my friend before that). So I signed up for the class. Had my endorsement 2 weeks later.

Had another friend ride the bike from the dealer when it arrived, as there was no way I was ready to do a freeway on a new bike when my only experience was on a 125 trainer bike. Kept it in my folk's garage for about a month, going over on weekends to learn riding it in the residential neighborhoods, without ever having to go into traffic. First freeway ride was scary.

I'm still learning... on the first bike I've ever owned/ridden... and I know I'll have this bike to the end. Once in a while I'd like a tourer for long slab runs, but I've found a happy medium making the Monster work for that.

Took a 1098 for a test last summer. That is definitely too much for me. Fun, but I wouldn't buy one. And it made my nuts hurt. Beautiful bike, regardless.

[slowpoke13]

While sitting at work one night about 5 years ago, I was bored and surfing the internet. I got a wild hair up my ass to look at motorcycles. I had been wanting a motorcycle off and on for a lot of my childhood. Never pursued it as my mother was totally opposed and would have disowned me. So, there I am surfing online trying to find something I like. Not really into the Harley stuff, don't really like faired bikes. I was looking for something more along the lines of a "basic" motorcycle. Something that looked how I thought a motorcycle should look. Simple, clean lines. Motor, frame, wheels. That's about all I wanted. Didn't see anything that wasn't trying to look like a spaceship or transformer (remember the old insect transformers?) from most manufactures. Was bouncing between Triumph & BMW. Both were 5 digits though. And, I really didn't want to spend that much. I kept looking. For shits, I looked at the Ducati website. Their superbikes were nice, the STs pretty. I looked at the monster and it just made me happy. It looked how the motorcycle in my mind looked. It was clean, simple, and unique. I can't even remember if I had heard one prior to then. I'd gone to the races at Sears Point and Laguna Seca growing up. Caught a few of the motorcycle races. But, really wasn't paying attention to the machines as much as I was just enjoying the racing. So, I went down to the local shop and got some up close and personal time. Less than a month later, MSF was complete, license in hand, I bought my S2R (I know, not the best bike for a 1st rider). It lasted a little over a year before I was run off a one way road. I was bikeless for a while then. Once I got to Japan, I went back to the basics and picked up a nice little 400 that I've been enjoying the hell out of and never plan on parting with. Not even when the kid on the 250 goes screaming by me.