Ducati SuperSport 936

[ducpainter]

This is exactly where it sits for me. My options were limited to the Monster, since I'm too short for a Multi and too old for a superbike.

Too old for a superbike...

Speak for yourself.

[MendoDave]

I had a Honda Super Hawk which was basically a water cooled knockoff of the Super Sport. Great street Bike. The great thing about the Super Sport is that it's the real deal. 

[koko64]

 
Obese Sport Touring bikes are torture on the track, Superbikes are torture on the street. My Gixxer would kill my back, wrists, neck and hips on the street but on track it feels like home.
I was starting to feel cramped on a Monster until I took Glucosamine .
Im having my HM1100 seat modified so I can hang off better and keep the Sargent seat for two up and long distance. Bike fit is like buying a suit.

I do think they could have made the new SS more beautiful.

[MendoDave]

Obese Sport Touring bikes are torture on the track, Superbikes are torture on the street. My Gixxer would kill my back, wrists, neck and hips on the street but on track it feels like home.
I was starting to feel cramped on a Monster until I took Glucosamine .
Im having my HM1100 seat modified so I can hang off better and keep the Sargent seat for two up and long distance. Bike fit is like buying a suit.

I do think they could have made the new SS more beautiful.

Wish I would have known about Glucosamine years ago. 

[Howie]

Other than the tail, exhaust and mirrors mmm.  Even then, with a reflectoronomy that bike would make me happy.  Hard bags would be a nice addition.

[koko64]

All white with red wheels and all red with black wheels look better, but the half red half black fairing is pox. . Too disjointed/CBR for me.

[ducpainter]

I'm gonna break ranks here.

I don't like it. It's just a cheaper SBK.

It doesn't appear that it will fill the bill as a Sport Tourer, and it has antique rear suspension technology.

If Ducati wanted to tie it in with the SS of old then make it a 2V

[MadDuck]

I'm gonna break ranks here.

I don't like it. It's just a cheaper SBK.

It doesn't appear that it will fill the bill as a Sport Tourer, and it has antique rear suspension technology.

If Ducati wanted to tie it in with the SS of old then make it a 2V

Can't do that, it won't pass emissions.  No, it is not sport tourer.  As much as I do like it I predict it will not be the hot seller that they might imagine. Not in the USA anyway, maybe.  It was lack of sales that finished off the old 2V version.  Maybe today's hipsters will revive it though.

[NAKID]

Other than the tail, exhaust and mirrors mmm.  Even then, with a reflectoronomy that bike would make me happy.  Hard bags would be a nice addition.

Hard bags would be interesting. As for the exhaust, I imagine the US version will look different.

[DarkMonster620]

I would have preferred it with a DSS and a watercooled 2V . . . and MUCH LESS "Panigalestic"

[Speeddog]

It's better looking than the first few teaser photos suggested, so there's that.

I'm gonna break ranks here.

I don't like it. It's just a cheaper SBK.

It doesn't appear that it will fill the bill as a Sport Tourer, and it has antique rear suspension technology.

If Ducati wanted to tie it in with the SS of old then make it a 2V

Yep, cheaper SBK.

How does it go wrong as a Sport Tourer?
Lack of passenger accomodations?

Well, it's an SS, it's supposed to have antique rear suspension technology. 

Would be a better bike with an air-cooled 2V.
Scrambler and R9T and and and....are passing emissions with air cooling.

Too much electronotrickery.

[ducpainter]

Can't do that, it won't pass emissions.  No, it is not sport tourer.  As much as I do like it I predict it will not be the hot seller that they might imagine. Not in the USA anyway, maybe.  It was lack of sales that finished off the old 2V version.  Maybe today's hipsters will revive it though.

Well, you can pass emissions with a 2V, Ducati does it with the Scrambler, but that isn't what this is about.

It, indeed, was a lack of sales that killed off the SS originally, and the same will happen with this version.

It's a bike without a market. It doesn't excel at anything, or even have a real purpose, and only serves to let the hipsters say they own a Ducati.

It's better looking than the first few teaser photos suggested, so there's that.

Yep, cheaper SBK.

How does it go wrong as a Sport Tourer?
Lack of passenger accomodations?

Well, it's an SS, it's supposed to have antique rear suspension technology. 

Would be a better bike with an air-cooled 2V.
Scrambler and R9T and and and....are passing emissions with air cooling.

Too much electronotrickery.

We agree then.

[MendoDave]

Its a city bike. It should be less expensive than the race bike, and you don't need 150+ HP for the twisties or just splitting lanes, that's just insane. It would be an awesome bike on Hwy 1 or any number of other coastal zone roads on the west coast.
It's more than enough bike for public roads, and a guy should be able to make it into a pretty decent track day bike.

Obviously it's not the bike to take racing.

[koko64]

The factory should have consulted me..

Maybe its not aimed at folk like us.

[Speeddog]

I don't think it will register on Hipster Radar, it doesn't even look old.