Monster vs 848

[Punx Clever]

im defintely not going to fix the bike. Its noth worth it. Im going to get what? brand new parts for it and new paint job only to watch someoen run it over again? The monster is my beater bike. might as well look the part 

invest in a jar of body filler and some rattle cans.  everythime someone knocks it over, sand, fill, sand, prime, spray.  yeah, it'll still look beater, but slightly less neglected.  probably be done for less than 50 bux a go for a full paint job once you spread the body filler over a few touch up jobs.

[He Man]

nah i bought my bike in mint condition. then i crashed it the day i got it registered. i repainted it with rattle cans and have not touched it since then. body filler is for sissys,

[Desmo Demon]

I'd also go with option #2 of pocking the money and keeping the bike, but I'm the guy with fairings on his ST2 that are scratched and plastic welded.

My wife's crashed her R1 last spring in a fluke incident and it could have been totaled at nearly $5000 in damages, but I insisted we didn't want to do that. The adjuster wrote it up and did not recommend totaling it, so we took the money, bought a bunch of used parts off of eBay and a few new parts like a tail fairing and a new slip-on to replace the stocker, I plastic welded the upper fairing and repainted over the welds, and you'd have to really know what to look for to tell the bike was wrecked. We pocketed close to $3000 out of that deal. We figure at over 40k miles, we don't care if the bike looks like new or not. That's how I look at my ST2 with over 50k miles on it.

[pintsizejesus]

You're right, I could only get 16 mm of sag with the stock shock spring with the preload all the way backed off.  Thanks for catching that.

[DRKWNG]

All that being said, one might find it's way onto my bike one day when I run out of other mods to do.

You mod your bikes?

[Popeye the Sailor]

You mod your bikes?

We can mod our bikes?

[junior varsity]

Ducati is making a Hypermotard?