But Ruthie baby, no amount of champagne and roses could show how much I really love you!

Did somebody have a question tonight?

Nick, what colour scheme will look best and go fastest in Desmo Due?

Look best? Mine. Definately mine.

Go fastest? Sadly, that's a different question!

Ok. I have a quite trivial question. What's the best mileage anyone has achieved from a 996 Ducati petrol tank? Someone posted something like this today, but this is for the quiz. Mine's a touring question really. I'm planning to go touring in August. The best I've got from my tank - who knows what the capacity of that is, about £9.50's basic unleaded max, I can ride for 118 miles before panicking about finding a petrol station.

Bearing in mind the riding will be steady in built up areas and balls out (obviously metaphoric in my case) in the twisty mountain bits ..

Depends on a lot of things of course. Such as fuelling setup, weight, cruising on the motorway or raggin' it round a track...

My bestest fuel figure was on the way back from Cornerspeed last summer. It was a motorway cruise at about 90mph from one fill-up to the next, and the light came on at 145 miles.

Worst was a Silverstone, where the light came on at 45 miles.

My average road riding, which is mostly very sensible and within the law, usually falls somewhere between 100 and 120 miles 'til the light comes on.

Tank capacity on a 996 is 17 litres, the light comes on with around 4 litres to go.

Is that any help?

[Edited on 15-2-2005 by NBs996]

Sorry I haven't owned or ridden a 996 so have no idea what the answer would be even for one on standard gearing.

Still nobody has answered my question about the weight Bias, I have one half of the answer but I dont know which half, I have a percentage split but uncertain if it is the race bike or the road bike.
Best I borrow somebody's 999 or 749 (Chippy) and find out what the standard road bike is, then I could move onto a 999R (Everton) and see how alloy subframe and lighter Termi exhaust effect things.
Then I will be able to answer my own question which I think should make me the winner :frog:

just thought of another question or is it 2 questions

Who would be interested in buying Red M600 Petrol tank off me with a dent in it but is still very suitable for track use
And who would be interested in a M600 swingarm with the suspension loop

Sorry kev, the weight bias question is beyond even me!
For the road bike it's usually in the brochure isn't it?, but that doesn't seem to be availabe yet, at least not on ducati.com

Nick you haven't even had a answer to your question about General Failure, what I can tell you about him is that he will soon be leaving your hard drive alone and will reappear on May 1st at Cadwells Woodland circuit where he will access your electrics and slow down your bike just as he does your hard drive. :frog:

F**ker!

You'd better hope he does!