Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Rider Power Survey - comments

[rcgbob44]

Does this mean that I must sell my under powered under braked expensive to service, poorly built, very unreliable wop machine...............................coz I ain`t.

Have a really nice day chaps & chapesses.

[twpd]

TBH Frank I wouldn't lend any weight to surveys like this. My own personal experience clearly shows that the bikes are not particularly expensive to run or unreliable - no more so than any other bike I've owned so, I'm not gonna listen to some rag tell me otherwise. I think surveys like this are pretty much unscientific and the numbers that they get for sample sizes are statistically irrelevant.

Also, what is there to say that people don't vote several times over for their own bikes? Added to that all the self-interest that may come from manufacturers reps or those dissing other brands.

[888heaven]

I think your find that some of the riders who vote have had bad experience with their bikes or dealers and want to vent some venom especially if its their first experience of non jap machinery.
anyway if you want an easylife its got to be a jap bike but thats why they dont bring out much passion.

[DC]

I will jinx myself by sayin this but I have only had 2 things go wrong with my Ducati in the 4 years that I have owned it.

1 was the alarm packing in. ( Fixed by AA to get me home)

The other was an uprated clutch slave cylinder letting me down when its seals failed. ( Went back to the old original one which his still on the bike.)

More than happy with my Ducati.

DC.

[Twinfan]

What's this "real world weighting" bobbins? Sounds like a fix to push the expensive bikes down the list. But what if the expensive bikes really are better built, give better performance, don't break down etc??????