was in looking at the 1098 again in my dealership today they told me Ductati still does not have a demo version in all dealerships (as far as i am aware no UK dealership even has its demo version yet and only 6 dealerships in Germany have one at this time) and that no private purchase orders will be filled untill at the earlest Feb 2007 the only way an order could be filled would be if the dealer let his demo version go, cant see many doing that

I've been told next week for demo bike at Motorapido and sometime in January for delivery of my and my mates 's' models.

But it comes when it comes, if it's late jan to early feb i'll wait for march 1 new reg but if it's early jan and teh weathers ok i'll be racking the miles up!

i went to the ducati factory at the weekend, they have 1500 1098's to be shipped out by christmas, the guy who did the tour said the waiting list was 40days, but is more like 50days due to the high demand

Chichester CMW demo bike arriving tomorrow (Tuesday) have got another one coming that is sold. so someone is right in that they're selling quick, and other ones will be arriving January and people are queued up with paid deposits, should all be sorted by feb.

sounds nice or what :)

http://www.myvideo.de/movie/416394

They sound awesome even on the standard cans-don't know how they got them through homologation-got a real bark when you blip the throttle.

John

Chris Evans on his evening radio show was asking people tonight when they knew Christmas had arrived. Someone text in and said "Christmas is coming for me tomorrow as I'm picking up my new Ducati 1098"
Anybody on here?

Spoke to my dealer and he said they had 20 on order, nearly all "S's", if you want an "S" then it would be the end of March.
Just in time to get some Spring miles in!
They've got one in on Thurs.
I'm going to have a butchers, the heart says go the wallet says No!

[quote=Carbon749]OK, just supposing I wanted to buy a 1098 :) does anyone know the lead time ?

Private buyers may have to wait until March or April 2007 to get a new bike and not an ex-demo bike.

If ordered today !!