Ducati = bs?

[ungeheuer]

I think a Hayabusa would be pretty friggin' exciting.

Too exciting for me.

Ugly as shit though.

[MendoDave]

I think a Hayabusa would be pretty friggin' exciting.

Too exciting for me.

Ugly as shit though.

I said most...

That superhawk (fireblade) i had was pretty cool.
The CBR 600 was an excellent machine and about as exiting as a refrigerator

[ungeheuer]

My DR650 is not exciting.

Except when I make the beast with two backs up 

[MendoDave]

The CR250 was exiting the 125 not so much. I had fun on both though.

[ungeheuer]

My Japanese CX500 wasnt at all exciting.  My Italian SD900 was the most exiting bike I ever owned...... whenever I took it out for a ride there was no telling how far I'd get.... before it broke 


I dont think she's gonna be put off by a few grey hairs Mendo Dave 

[DarkMonster620]

I stand corrected..

Fuel flange wiring took a steaming pile on me and left me stranded at work.

- which wasn't a big deal considering it was a great excuse to hit a few gastropubs and rack out at the office!-

Got it replaced for a hundred bucks and was back in business.

Considering i've had two actual "problems" with the bike in 57,000 miles since buying her new, I'll gladly take that without complaining. I love my bikes and everything about them, even their quirks.

Bottom line is : If you don't like what your riding, get rid of it and move on

Was looking for the like button didn't find it, but, found this,  nothing but the truth and the whole truth !!!

Go on, you don't like, sell it !!!!

[the_Journeyman]

I think a Hayabusa would be pretty friggin' exciting.

Too exciting for me.

Ugly as shit though.

Funny you mention those...  I have lusted after the power they offer, and want one for a long range tourer.  Risers, taller windscreen, my Cortech side & tail bags on.  All day comfort and plenty of passing power!  They aren't pretty though, but I don't really care.  I imagine I'll not care the moment I whack the throttle wide open!

JM

[Estoma]

Kokis, SDRider.  Sounds to me like you guys harbor a suppressed desire to be riding Suzukis instead  .  Even though they sit way at the bottom of the Japanese Motorcycle Food-chain; IMHO anyway.

I have been hearing the same waffle all my life about Italian Passion Machines (Stallions); and not limited only to Ducati, but also as regards Morini/Cagiva, MV, even Guzzi, Aprilia and more – never mind Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Fiats.  And I have ridden/driven and worked on several of those.  I also went through a stage in my life when I had to ride Jap (Scrap).  But that was when I was young and foolish, and mainly because Italian Bikes were prohibitively expensive and virtually unobtainable in Sarfefrica in those years.  Granted, V/L-Twins were not quite in vogue back then and both Ducati and Alfa had rather dubious Reliability Records, but nothing makes you bond closer to a Marque than one that covers your hands in oil and Elastoplasts.  I had posters and magazine clips of the Benelli Sei and Laverda Jota on my bedroom walls then like I have of the Maserati Quattroporto and Ferrari California on my garage walls now.

Back then we would spend all our time and money on Big-bore Kits, Cams and Slide Carbs to change our Jap Sewing Machines into bellowing and barking Tire-smokers with a ragged high idle that would pop and gargle on decel.  What bliss!  And they would break often for what we did to and with them.  But we never blamed the Japs or After-part Makers for that?

And then along came the Monsters, which just looked, sounded and performed the part straight off the Showroom Floor.  But so many riding them have been whining and b!tching, without end, as too how they surge at low revs, and how you would need the clutch to be slipped every now and then, and for their legs (gearing) being too long and as to them popping and gargling on decel?  And how they cut out at a traffic light once in a blue moon .

Unfortunately Ducaudi also reads Forums it seems, and has picked up on the incessant complaining.  The result will be a new slew of friendly, polite and polished Ger-talian Sewing Machines (Mares) – sans Soul and Character – of which the 1200/1200S is the first.  BMW has already been lost down that route.  And it will probably not take long either to launch a Scooter Lineup in order to meet Beemer’s in the Marketplace.  Sacrilege!

Ducati = Grin Factor.

[ungeheuer]

Ducati = Grin Factor.

I like you 

Let's talk cricket 

[Estoma]

I feel about the Proteas (Sarfefrican Cricket Team for those who might not know and/or might just care – don’t ask) right now like one would feel about a brother in jail.  I still love the b@stard but I really do not want to talk about him.

[ungeheuer]

I feel about the Proteas (Sarfefrican Cricket Team for those who might not know and/or might just care – don’t ask) right now like one would feel about a brother in jail.  I still love the b@stard but I really do not want to talk about him.

Ja, I understand.... 

So....... lets talk about cricket 

[HotIce]

I think a Hayabusa would be pretty friggin' exciting.
Too exciting for me.
Ugly as shit though.

There is not reason whatsoever, to compromise beauty for excitement/speed.
For example, Ducati 1198:




Hayabusa:




OK, I lied, the first one is a jumper, but you get the idea 

[Skybarney]

I am starting to agree with these haters.  My POS Duc ran out of gas yesterday!

[MendoDave]

You better get something else then. Maybe a Maximog.

[Skybarney]

    I would never actually own such a monstrosity, Sure would'a been fun building it though.  I did own a Pinzgauer though!