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[MARTIN H]

Originally Posted by rcgbob44

"your a long time dead".

One of my favourite sayings. However its usually me saying it to my girlfriend to justify whatever I've just bought! My mate (half german) has a good one in German that translates to "you last shirt (shroud) has no pockets"!

[Ozz]

Ridden since I was 9 (1978) but I still remember first hearing then seeing an 888 years later and that was it....

Now many years later I have a Ducati albeit only a 600 Monster and not the 748 I wanted. Am I enjoying it? Erm, I think so. I am not as one with it yet but I think it is mainly the tyres as it has Bridgestones like my Fazer had and every corner just feels like it is my last.

Hopefully I will get there and then upgrade to a 748 next year....

[749er]

initially the aura and the heritage of the brand, but since then the DSCis part of it too

[Lightning Boy]

I was in the market for a H*nda Fireblade and accidently bought a 748R instead.

Originally Posted by Lightning Boy

I was in the market for a H*nda Fireblade and accidently bought a 748R instead.

Like it. Some mistake though

[antonye]

A lot of people know what a Ducati is, but they wouldn't know the difference between the latest GSXR, ZX or CBR offerings. Even if they don't know that it's a Ducati, they understand that it is something more special than a Suzuki, Kawasaki or Honda.

[jeff st4s]

Originally Posted by Lightning Boy

I was in the market for a H*nda Fireblade and accidently bought a 748R instead.

You can't mistake class or style Rob, you and the bike!

For me it was the sound, I needed it.

Then it had to take a topbox to stop my son going of the back, some things just have to be shared between a father and a son, how else will I be able to indoctrinate him?

[GsxrAge]

Errrrummm


I did enjoy both my 916 and my 996.

The sound off it, the way it went round bends the colour () and the people i met.

Also miss telling the ones not in the know that there is nothing wrong with my clutch


changed to me GSXR as I wanted something faster and the looks off the 999 were not to my Taste !

Age

[skidlids]

A few years back I still had my Harris Magnum 4 which Handled very well and for my every day bikes I had a Fireblade and a TL1000S., I loved the TLs engine but not its handling with both the other bikes out performing it in this department.
Then a mate let me ride his 916SP and the place he choose to let me have a go was the B4011. What struck me instantly was the accuracy of the handling, I aimed for a spot in the road and I hit it, on the TL you made allowances.
Next thing to happen was the same mate had got hold of a 916BP that needed a bit of repair work and was going to give it to his brother. turned out his brother wasn't interested so my mate offered it to me. I handed over some cash then popped down to see Steve at Moto Rapido to get the bits needed to repair it and then my days of riding a Ducati started.

Just got that same 916 back from Senna3 last week and still think its one of the best buys I have made in all my years of motorcycling, on the roads a 916/996 does all that a bike needs to and does it very well,with the feedback and the lack of bump steer and other issues that lighter bikes like my R6 suffer it makes them a pleasure to ride.

And one thing I have noticed in all the times I have been out on either my 916, 996 or 998 I have never got a half mile up the road and thought I should turn back home because I wasn't feeling at one with the bike, yet I have thought this on nearly every other bike I have owned at one time or another