Good post Lord Rattler. You can't alway interest the hoy paloy in what the gentry treat as recreation though, can you?
Joking apart, I rode one of Butch's race Monsters last year at Brands and it convinced me to buy a Monster because they can do so much more than I imagined. If any of the DD riders could stand to lend their bikes out, it would get people more in love with Ducati, worst case, and best case might encourage more people to enter the series. An excellent outcome, I reckon.