| ducati london central - nice people, easy to arrange and would buy a bike there if i was minted...took a new '05 749bip and my mate an '04 MTS so i could try both. the 749 was great, brakes amazing compared to the old 748 things, engine smooth and handling the usual ducati thing. minor disappointments were the finish, the air intake tubes don't finish flush with the fairing, the wiring is all over the place and exposed(worse than the 748) and the disc carriers were all corroding (1000miles). swingarm paint(black) looks nice but scratches and the mirrors!!!!! make the 748 ones like they are off a cruiser or tourer - i got plenty of view of my arm. deceptively fast tho' you end up going up to rounabouts at a fair pace and need those sharp stoppers to wash off the extra pace quickly. But the MTS is still in the frame - even tho' it feels agricultural in the engine dept against the 749....watch this space oh - are the '05 brakes and '04 brakes the same? and the lever has a funny little plastic wheel to adjust span unlike the gold wheel of the earlier 748 series - easy to have someone fiddle with?.  |