Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Best ever motorcycling moment?

[weeksy2]

2nd race meeting, Mallory Pk, knowing i was weaker than a TLR into Gerrards but also knowing i could beat him over the line with my drive out of the elbow.... Managed to beat him by 4/100ths. The position didn't matter, we were closer to the back than the front... but it was my first 'race' my first time battling and swapping poistion lap after lap after lap.

[Jools]

Chasing a hard charging Mille R around Rockingham National and coming round the outside of him on that long left hander before the hairpin.

After the session the guy came over and said "Wow, those ST4S's can shift can't they". I said "I don't know, but they're probably quite a lot quicker than my ST2". The look was priceless!

[twpd]

Riding a Ducati for the first time on the way to the Bol. A friend let me ride his 748SP - one of the first in the country. It was loud, achingly beautiful, fast as f**k, full-on in the face and a real man's bike....I had to have one. I've never looked back since.

[italian888]

1972 riding allnight two up with my mate on my Suzuki 500 Titan to Bathurst races.Seeing Ducati 750 GT's racing for the first time, fell in love and bought one six months later.A great weekend.

[phillc]

Don't know if this is the best moment, but it'll be one I'll remember forever.

Leaving Newcastle, Australia to ride over the mountains to Bathurst, where my sister lived, to watch the weekend's races (thought I'd post this straight after Italian888's).

It was August and winter was supposed to be over (southern hemisphere you see) and I was on my Yamaha Virago 250 (I know, the horror! the horror!).

Anyway, I had to stop at Lithgow in the mountains to put on every additional piece of clothing in my backpack because of the cold.

Rode into Bathurst, surely suffering hypothermia, with ice formed all down the front of my jacket, helmet, gloves, trousers etc.

Into the first bar where, without having to be asked, the barman simply handed me a Bundy (dark rum) and coke.

[Fiver]

I have a few

1. After rebuilding a very sorry Lambretta from the ground up, starting it and hearing it run for the first time. that was pretty special.

2. Passing my test

3. Riding my Ducati for the first time. what a RUSH.

4. Leading a scooter ride of about 60 bikes through Arches National Park in Utah earlier this year.

Sorry theres not more motorbike related ones, but im still in my first year of riding.

Cy

[Rattler]

For me it was owning and riding my first Ducati.

I had promised myself one after I had heard them racing and rumbling past the rented room I lived in after I was divorced. I had no money, but formed a plan to own one; so when I did, that first ride back from OYB in Aylesbury on my 996 was priceless.

Tim