996S Black Yellow Monster Mob
 

Morning

Has anyone, does anyone, own/ed this bike?

RA

[Edited on 12-2-2006 by RCA]

Not sure i'm 100% convinced with the black number boards TBH... apart from that i like it :)

Looks good to me :cool:

[Edited on 12-2-2006 by Twinfan]

Looks toooo yelloooow, but otherwise OK.

Looks toooo yelloooow, but otherwise OK.

Actually, I don't know why my message cloned itself. I guess I'll have to be less insistent when pressing the post reply button

I know who did own it before, it was on sale in Alvins in Edinburgh. The sales guy there called Pete used to own it at one point. Thats his desk in the background.

Why do you ask? :puzzled:

[Edited on 12-2-2006 by Davieravie]

:cool:
Think it looks good. Not a huge fan on the monster mob graphics.
Quite like the Black number boards as well. Little different.

I may be doing getting black number boards on mine as part of a spray job next year.;)

DC:burn:

No but it looks good to me.

Is this up for sale locally?

IF your still looking for a yella Duke though give me a U2U, I have a 998 up for grabs if your interested?

Cause Iam interested in purchasing a twin. With a budget of up to £8k, I have considered everything. The 996, 998, 749, 999. I was so anti 749 & 999 to begin with, but Iam starting to turn to the dark side. The 749, 999 look has started grow on me. Yeah, I have listened, and read the pros&cons of old and new, and also taken on board all the advice, (mostly from owners, mostly conflicting), but its hard enough to get a test ride on any of the said bikes, with 9 points on board, its virtually impossible, so anything I buy is gonna be a gamble. I may hate it (only ever ridden CBR600, R6, R1 & SP1 (loved).

I stumbled across the 996s Monster Mob one and it certainly does it for me. I think it looks the dogs in these colours. The asking price is £5499, which seems about right, with a bit knocked off, it’s a contender.

Moto-Rapido also have a 2005 749S, with a full termi 57mm system, that I really fancy, looks mint. Asking price is £8399. Yeah it is £3k more than the 996s, but if it falls within my budget I don’t care, I just want to enjoy what ever I buy.

One thing for sure, I keep being drawn to the 749, but not the 999? Prob because the R1 is good for that. The 749 just seems to scream ‘fun,fun,fun’ (even if I did slate it after my brief test ride)…..

Anyway, what is the worst thing that could happen? I buy the 749, I decide I don’t like, I sell it next month and lose 50% :lol:

What the heck, it’s only money…:(

[Edited on 13-2-2006 by RCA]

749S on E Bay 2003 very low miles
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2003-DUCATI-74...cmdZ ViewItem

So why did you slate it then? :puzzled:

Monster mob 996s
 

Seems a bit cheap to me...

A 996s with a paint job at that price, say`s its been down the road...First thing I`d look for are signs of a crash.

I tend to think it is actually a bit too expensive.

It is only worth what someone is willing to pay after all.

The big problem with buying a bike with a custom paint job like this one is that you have to sell it to someone who likes it when you decide to move on.

You just need to look at how long these type of bikes hang around in Bike Trader for, and in the dealers of course.

It is hard enough trying to sell a standard clean well looked after Duke just now, never mind something as unique as this which is catered to a specific taste.

First thing i would be asking is how long it's been up for sale, and how many owners...........You will probably find it has changed hands a few times and been difficult to sell on each time, fine as long as you are happy with this and willing to accept the same when it come time to sell.

Bubbles is spot on with the comment about it being down the road, many people buy bikes with the intention of doing a custom paint job, sadly though there is a much larger section of people who have this forced upon them after binning it, custom paint jobs always have been and always will be a way of attempting to hide this fact.

I notice it has been done by Bike Paints, why not give them a call and see if they can shed any light on the history of the bike?

All the best what ever you decide to do, but i for one would be looking to get the price below 5k if my heart was set on it., most places have 10% in the screen price at least to play with, if not they are in the wrong game.

Regards

ScottyB

cause it felt very very slow...

If you are used to riding an R1, the 749 will seem like a rattly slow thing.

I remember when I had my R1 and took a 748 for a ride...I hated it, It felt hard, uncomfortable, slow and just awful...

Then years later...I love em...

As you get older, your tastes get more refined and you stop believing everything you read in MCN, things like this years must have bike is 3 grams lighter then last years model...etc etc.

Is that the 749S at Moto-Rapido that is absolutely dripping in carbon (including the tank)?
I saw that the other week and it certainly looked mint and extremely tasty too.

Good luck in your search.

RX

The bike has been on sale in Alvins Moto Cal here in Edinburgh for about 6 months. I know the guy fairly well who had it and to my knowledge its not been flung down the road. Pete works in Alvins for a number of years and has had loads of Dukes and it was him who had the paintjob done. Ive even joked with him for doing a swap with mine!!!

I have seen this bike in the flesh and Im personally not a big fan of all these posey paintjobs but this one looks really good.