Guys this thread is from 10 mth ago ish, There was only me on the site that binned it but a few others have marks on the sump.

The thread has reamerged becouse its happend to someone else now, this aint an isolated problem around 10 per year are affected (ALL in the north) now were either hard ba$tards or the roads round here are crap :puzzled:

The outcome is the bikes get repaired foc after an inspection, The bottomline is you have to admit theres not a problem with the bikes and your bike will be fixed :flame:

The mod is done at Riverside where they cut the bottom of the plugs off and modify with flat plate, I spoke to them last year and they said a race team (monstermob?) had they same thing happen to the bikes running them in.

Think DM had 3 bikes back last year, Leeds sent out letters to all there owners asking them to check there sumps

:puzzled:

Although not having a 999 I do ride the same roads as RM and have experienced the same problem on many bikes. Every R1 I ever had in the past was absolutley battered to hell underneath ie lower fairing exhaust etc. and my 996 at one time looked as if someone had taken a sledgehammer to the underside of the exhaust!

Although a good bit heavier than RM I do see it as a problem, the first time I saw a picture of the deep sump engine I thought that it would be a problem for the kind of riding and the type of roads I spend my time on. I know fully well how easy it is too find yourself blatting along at high speed one minute and the next find yourself airborne for quite a while when you least expect it! There are severe humps and jumps in all sort of unexpected places in the Yorkshire dales and they do catch a lot of people out.

I dont really think its fair to dismiss in any way what has happened to him just because it has not happened to others. I know perhaps the bikes were not exactly designed to be jumping over great big humps in the road. But nevertheless they are sold as road bikes in Yorkshire to be used in Yorkshire!?

RM is probably the same as me in that he rides the same roads a lot and knows where the dodgy bits are and rides them accordingly. However sometimes I find myself on roads I do not know that well and even though I may be following a rider that knows that road you will find yourself taking unexpected jumps or compressions in the road a lot faster than you would like. I understand the comments about the roads up north being different to the roads down south.

I'm not saying its Ducatis fault but it is a problem that is quite dangerous.

999s '06 Bip
Just checked the plug and its about one inch proud of the fairing.
It's not scraped or bashed, but then again, not done any jumps on it.
The "plug" is a square plate held on by four allen set screws (?) - that right?

They've got them out quick :lol:

Very subtle Alan.....my 06:lol::lol::lol:

Twinfan, Alan is one of the Time Lords.;)

Oh yea of little faith.
Check out the photo of the reg document in the photo forum.(Premature...)

'06 baby, read it and weep.

Bet its allready depreciated..................:lol::lol:

Typo surely????

TF - I thought that, but all paperwork refers to 2006 manufacturing run.

Sump plug - is it the "plug" with the four allen screws?