Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > Monsters > Monster Owner from NZ: new to the forum

[Lynda Blair]

Hi everyone - my first post on this forum. (thanks to sbwells from NZ for pointing me in this direction!)

Hope I don't breach any etiquette - I'm not very technical. I haven't had much of a browse round the site, so I hope I'm posting this in the right place.

I have two Monsters, an August 2003 M800Si.e. and a June 2004 M1000Si.e.

I love them both - they're similar in some ways but also quite different.

Have done 25,000kms on the 800, and only about 2,500kms on the 1000 (we've had pretty shitty weather here since I bought it). The 1000 is currently in hospital - at the beginning of a trip at the weekend it suddenly went onto one cylinder (the front one wasn't working). The shop thinks it's probably a coil, but haven't got back to me yet with the problem.

I was at the MotoGP at Phillip Island a couple of w/ends ago and saw my next one - the S2R. I have asked my local dealer to give me a trade-in figure for my 800. The S2R is a lovely bike.

I really love riding my Monsters, they're so easy to ride, so light and easy to handle, and they're Ducatis!

That's me in a nutshell.

Lynda

[TP]

Welcome Linda, you'll enjoy the forum's

Heaps of info on Monsters here and knowledgable people.

While we're all drinking I'll have a Sauvignon Blanc

PS, I'm a Brisbane exile in London

[madmav]

welcome ! from MADMAV

[Rocker]

Hi Lynda Welcome to the forum.Glad to hear you are enjoying your Monsters
Not sure you should have posted your surname though as it certainly isn't the most popular one at the moment here in the UK

[keefer]

cant beleve the weather is bad down there,
but welcome to the family
ps can i book a spot for next years gp, i dont eat much

[Albie]

Hi from another monsterer. Love mine too but will upgrade next year to s4 or s4R depending on whether to take out loan. Hope your bikes fixed soon. I rode m1000 not so long ago and very nice too. Eh Charlotte.

Happy monstering

[Henners]

... welcome and good thinking on the S2R, wouldn't mind one of them myself - monsters don't look right with radiators and plumbing, do they?

I'll join you in a Morton Estate Stone Creek Sauvignon Blanc - cheers H

[Albie]

[quote]Originally posted by Henners
... welcome and good thinking on the S2R, wouldn't mind one of them myself - monsters don't look right with radiators and plumbing, do they?

Shame they are only 800 and not available in 1000. thats why I have to buy S4r want the more grunt. Dont want the plumbing particularly

[paulmort]

Welcome Lynda from a 900ssie man
Glad your weather is as sh188y as ours, weve had it all summer long and now its really good being winter, at least you got summer coming along

I see Henners drinks after my namesake - I'll join you in a Morton Estate Stone Creek Sauvignon Blanc -

I'll have a pint of that as well, might as well fall off the wagon if its named after me

Join in the fun and there's a great bunch of peeps on the board
Welcome again
bestest
mort (aka paul) but all call me mort

[AK]

Welcome Linda - from one who also has the M1000Sie (see Albie - somebody else has taste too - glad you enjoyed it too)

Loverly bike innit? - well, I reckon it is.

I'll have a bottle of the finest red - on you, please

C