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Nice one Loz

What always amazes me are the people who come up to you at bike meets or wherever you stop and say "is your bike alright mate, it's making a lot of noise". I'm losing count of the number of times it being said to me. It happened a couple of weeks ago to Richard and myself and I'm sure we both had the same resigned look on our faces and were thinking the same thing - "oh no here we go again".

You can't beat a duke for character and soul which the Japs can't seem to capture no matter how good looking and quick and gimicky they make their bikes.

The general public love Ducatis - they are drawn to them like a magnet. The biking public are usually more cautious but still interested, often trying to start a conversation with some information they heard somewhere once, possibly wanting to be convinced that they are as good to ride as is generally accepted by jurnos - I always see it as a way to recruit more folk to the Ducati fold :)

If you really want to get noticed turn up on one of these - thought I was going to get mobbed when I went to the Alton meet with Stu on Wednesday night ...

I have this a few times too along with comments about reliability and pricing etc. My reply is always the same."Have you owned one?" Invariably the answer is "no".

I rarely meet people who are as enthusiastic or passionate about jap bikes as Ducati owners are about theirs, which says a lot really.

I would sell my ZX6 tomorrow, but never the 749. Shes a keeper!

DM

You speakin for yourself there Loz?

Having said which, I got asked by a bloke the other day what a Ducati was!! He wondered if I had some sort of off-road bike. Duh.

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Just think how much more you could get from our club if you invested 20 beer vouchers for membership!

My friends get rather peed off when they get beaten on twisty roads by a quote 'tarts handbag' ridden by poofs that breaks down every 5 minutes.

What??

Phil, so you've chopped in a 748R for an R1[/quote]

Well I never...:o :eek:
So then Phil, what made you do that??? Just interested after the conversation we had about my 748/749 quandry.....

Ive got two now....can't bare to get rid of the SS.
In three years Ive not come across any biker that hasn't nodded back yet!

When Ive pulled up comments have been made regarding reliability,cost etc but only usually to strike up conversation about the bike...once I start rattling on and singing the bikes praises in the region of "fantastic ride at Cadwell" whom ever I talk to ends up talking about wishing they could own/working their way up to owning/wished they'd never got rid of, blah, blah, blah.
I'm glad I skint myself to get a Duke for my first bike...and hence having a Duke for my second...I love both of my bikes ,Oh and the beautiful little red italian number that is still giving me hastle!!!!!