Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Anyone costed their season of desmodue ?

[butch890]

So far with only Cadders to go ,total for one bike is £7100,if you take off the bikes resale it would be 2200 ish(including £328 for damage (all at 1st cadders!)
Butch

[paynep]

About £5k, including entries, but not trackdays, petrol or beer.

This has included a fair amount of repairs and an abortive grand spent on a big-bore kit/flatslides/tuning/re-tuning/not finding those hypothetical horses

[twpd]

Originally posted by couchcommando
After 14 rounds of racing a GSXR750 I am looking for a cheaper race series next year, having spent an evening with a desmodue racer he has almost convinced me your series is the way to go. So has anyone costed it out ? Has it cost anywhere near the £20k my series has

Come Minitwin racing Tony. You on a Ducati? I'll believe it when I see if and if I do see it I'll buy you a beer.

[antonye]

Yes, I stopped counting at £2500 but apart from a couple of hundred more in parts and then meeting costs, that was about it.

Click the link in my .sig for details...

[TP]

Originally posted by twpd

Come Minitwin racing Tony. You on a Ducati? I'll believe it when I see if and if I do see it I'll buy you a beer.

Oi! There's enough people already

Got that 800 sorted out yet?

[AK]

Snotmobile in full tracktrim is standing in total: approx £3k - this includes the extra's purchased: Fairings, 620 engine, the 6 speed gearbox & big bore 'kit' - which was as we suspected, a complete waste of time at Castle & Snett. Also included are rebuilt forks & rear susp.
Remember tho, the bike was a 2001 M600 carbed, brought for under £1k

I will add that some parts fitted came out of AK's spares bins, from other projects, thus saving overall in costs.

Not included is costing for Dyno work at MHP, by Mark - as this was done on part sponsor/part AK crewing for him.

Andy did the paintwork for nowt, and AK has done all the mech work etc himself.

Not included in top costings; 2 sets of tyres (one set new just before Brands, so only 2 sets for season) travel, beer, food, entries & fuel at track.

We did of course also purchase the Tango Queen just before Brands - not for any where near what some of you guessed, but I'm going to be using her myself as a road bike this winter, till the race season gets going.


C

[twpd]

Originally posted by TP
Oi! There's enough people already
Got that 800 sorted out yet?

Sssshhhhh! I don't know what you're talking about.

[skidlids]

I haven't quite added all the figures together yet, but I will be suprised if the total cost of my season in Desmo Due exceeds £3500 inclusive of every thing, bike, tyres, fuel for bike and van, sprockets,entries etc.
In truth it will have cost me less than that as the bike is down as owing me £2050 but that includes putting a price on the bits out of my parts bin and as yet I haven't sold any bits on,

[Felix]

Originally posted by couchcommando
Has it cost anywhere near the £20k my series has

Bloody hell! 20k???!!! Surely that's not typical of the thunderbikes. Are you the one who had all that trouble with tuned 750 engines?

[phoenix n max]

3 sets of tyres @£120 a set less sold on 3 sets @£60
High Level Exhausts £200
RearSets £100
Fibreglass, salad bowl and paint - oooo less than a tenner
£50 acu test
£25 membership
£47 membership
£90 entries x 6 meetings
£140 x 6 in fuel-food etc for 5 or more folks!
I wont count track and test days cos i'd have done those or toured anyway.
2 x sprockets £30
Twin Disc conversion £100
3 x oil filters @£3.50 each
Belly Pan £40
One dyno run £30


Hmmm - take off around £1000 in sponsorship in one form and another and I'd say I haven't done too bad on a ickle monster with 25k on it that I also ride at weekends.

For me its not what i spend it's what i want out of it. Me I gave it a go. I may be last most of the time, but I ain't ever gonna be Rossi anyway and I have got out there and done it. Something I won't ever forget. I also know that I am nowhere near the limits of my bike so there's no point in me wasting money on blinging it up.

After Sunday my bike will be back in road trim for Monday and i'll be out through winter riding like I normally do till season starts next year

To me thats what Desmo Due series means.