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