Suppose it had to break ..2nd update....
 

Ah well,
as the titles suggests the dark one broke down today.
Bike had just been for service and not ridden since.

So basically had ridden about 100 miles, bike suddenly locked the back wheel up on the brakes, and felt like it locked under engine braking. Any pulled over to the side of the road. Bike had stalled, fired her back up and it stalled again. Tried again and a huuuuuuge cloud of smoke from the exhaust and then from the left hand side of the engine.
I limped over to a nearby macdonalds car park and left it for a bit hoping it was like a spontaneous mis fire of the like, but the clouds of smoke kept coming so mr aa man had to come get me.

As i say the bike had just been serviced and i'd not done any miles on it till now since, does any body have nay idea what i could have been? Gasket? Valve?

It was a 1 yr service at 5k miles with valves done.

There does appear to be some oil sprayed toward the back but not excessively and no leaks from the bike overall it seems.

Thanks ppl

[Edited on 4-10-2005 by fab]

[Edited on 5-10-2005 by fab]

what model / year is it?

Don't know what it might be, but it doesn't sound too good!

Hope its not serious mate.

Sorry its a k4 749 dark,
Its under warranty so hopefully wil be sorted without too much problems (read cost to me .:lol:)

Locked the back wheel, big cloud of smoke, it is something serious!

Get it into your dealer, if its under warranty use the ducati assist service, they will recover it to the nearest official dealer.

Wilf

Cheers again wilf, i senta u2u but not used it before so not sure if i have used it correctly.

will have to get Cobb and Jaggers on the phone 1st thing as that is where the service was done last week (Ducati Leeds).

Got it recovered home today as everywhere was closed.

Could also be that it was overfilled with oil and you first experienced a hydrostatic lock. When you tried it again you could have blown a ring or a engine seal. Either way it should be cover under warranty.

Cheers for the help and suggestions guys, will see how things develop over the course of the week
:D

Ring the assistance and get them to agree in advance a time to recover the bike to the dealers. Usually they will agree a half hour slot of time to come and pick it up.
I managed to give them three days notice and they were spot on time wise.
Best of luck with it and at least it's not at the start of summer.

Well, the first report was back from the garage today.

They suspected diesel! !

I felt " shock horror"!

i cannot have put diesel in, positively could not!

However curiosity had me thinking what if.. however i went to the petrol station today where i had fueled up.

I most definately had not put diesel, should have trusted my judgement.

the bike had been running on reserve light for approx 20 miles whereupon i then filed up.

it then ran for over 10 miles before the incident happened, however it consistently started and reved up the rev range whilst i was checking it for smoke before the aa man arrived.

From experience i dont think it would do this ith diesel in and idle over?

Anyway waiting for the garage to call me back again and see what is said.

what do you guys reckon?

[Edited on 4-10-2005 by fab]