Which Model for a Big Guy?

[Bstiles]

Thanks for the info BastrdHK, that's what I was hoping! The bike I'm looking at seems to be in pretty good shape.

One thing though, the gauges have white faces. The gauge bezel and the clear plastic cover are cracked. The owner says these are "Ducati performance dual gauge cluster w/white faced gauges". I am new to Ducs so what does this mean, other than it has white gauge faces? Is this factory?

Also the bike has 30,000 miles on it, am I buying a problem here? How long do these engines last?

[BastrdHK]

No worries,  the air cooled engines are tanks.......several members have twice that mileage, and a few have gone to 100k miles. 

The gauge cluster is DP as the owner says.  The dual gauges weren't introduced until 2000 on the 900.  The stock gauges on a '99 looked like this: