Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Test ride..report now added.. new update..

[Rattler]

Originally posted by Jon
The grass always looks greener the otherside of the fence.

.....but it still needs cutting!!!

[sparkin]

Originally posted by KeefyB
Great report Dave.Some food for thought there.

Does that mean the `05 "S" has been put on hold

[dave w]

This looks nice

http://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/gallery.asp?id=4183

[dave w]

http://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/gallery.asp?id=4886

[MaccLad]

Surely if it wheelies, pulls like a train, has a good exhaust note and has left you buzzing for hours it has character?

For me all the jap bikes are as characterful as the 999, I've always found the 999 a bit sanitised. Exclusive, expensive with questionable reliability they may be but I don't think they have more character. Now the 996/8 is a different matter...

IMHO.

Originally posted by MaccLadI've always found the 999 a bit sanitised. Exclusive, expensive with questionable reliability they may be but I don't think they have more character.

Now the 996/8 is a different matter...

hey, MaccLad may not post much but, boy, when he does, he knows his stuff ..... well said fella ...

[desmojen]

Originally posted by Jon
The grass always looks greener the otherside of the fence.

That's just it though, it doesn't!

The first thing I said to my husband after riding the Suzuki's is that I wouldn't give up my Ducati in order to have one....in other words I would have to have both.
The Suzuki doesn't lack character, it has a different one. It's so easy to ride it's laughable. I think that's where some of the Ducati's charm lies, you do have to work for your fun and that can be very satisfying.

As a road bike though, as soon as I can afford a GSXR750 or 100, I will have one, and put my 748 firmly back on the track, where she belongs!

[Jon]

Originally posted by Rattler

.....but it still needs cutting!!!

Bugger off and do that monnie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:P

[Ducnow]

Originally posted by dave w
This looks nice

http://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/gallery.asp?id=4183

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo.............

Have you seen it in person?
I have and i disliked it more than in the pictures.

But in the paper it's a nice and eficient bike, no doubt.

[Ducnow]

Originally posted by desmojen

As a road bike though, as soon as I can afford a GSXR750 or 100, I will have one, and put my 748 firmly back on the track, where she belongs!

Funny..... you'll be a lot faster on the track with a GSXR 750 or 1000 than with a 748 or a 998, and where you really need to be (or at least should be) fast is on the track not on the road.