| When is the line crossed for life threatening/niggles.
Brakes seizing in anyones books has to be life threatening.
Misfires - ala JPM et al. Life threatening if your turning onto a main road into a flow of traffic (believe me.... you clutch it, gas it hard and hope for the best)
[rant] ANY vehicle which has faults should be rectified/recalled forthwith by manufacturer - fit for purpose etcetera.
Considering that Ducati, imho, are considered to be the upper end of the quality bike market then I am becoming more dissapointed in their end product. Until a couple of weeks ago I thought it was probably just me being critical of what is an otherwise excellent bike.
When it's on form then I don't think that any other bike comes near giving the same grin factor and feeling of self satisfaction.
But now..? I now have to wait 2 weeks for bike to go in for the potential lfe threatening misfire to be resolved. Dare I ride it in the meantime? Like fook I will. I've still gotta get it to the garage and I ain't lookin forward to that.
Everyone's got their own opinion and the majority probably got excellent machines with maximum grin and no problems.
But for an £11K+ motor? C'mon.
Unless DUK magically pull a rabbit out the hat and restore my faith then I shan't be revisiting the fold after this bike.
btw, if DUK are reading this, WAKE UP TO THE PROBLEMS!!!!
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