| I should have come to this thread before now really. Agree with everything the man who helped me by my MS, - keefy.
Having ridden Ducs going back to the bevel engines and owned in more recent years a 900SL, and 916 I would say that the new lightweight (thats how they feel to ride) engines of the 1000DS is as much as you need on the MS, - and it is very different from the 900SS engine it was based on. A motorbike is about the sum of its parts and not one individual bit, - which is where the Japs never quite understand it right. The reason the 2 valve 900ss engine sounds like the best engine in the world through a set of termis is that the valve timing has a load of valve over-lap on it, something to do with exhaust still being open when inlet is coming in, - as such raw petrol gets shoved through the exhasut and you end with a what i describe as a really heavy sounding, heavy feeling engine, - to me you can almost feel each and every explosion. the new DS engine is made to a lot tighter tolerance so as to get it passed through emissions regs so to read through my waffle, - don't compare a 900ss engine with a 1000DS.
The other fundimental diffrence with a MS that you may not have noticed is that it does not have a fairing. You feel the speed that you are travelling at rather than be isolated from it on a 916. You get cold, you get pushed around by wind blast from other big vehicles, and you are very aware of what 80mph is like as you are braking into a bend.
In my opinion it is a bike made for small A roads and twisty B roads. Having followed on a few of the DSc rides, I would say that the MS turns faster than anything else on tight bends, but where it is a little more nervy is on long sweeping bends where the stabilty of short travel suspension comes into its own; a long bend that I would ride at about 110mph (race track you understand) on the 916 feels a bit swervy on the MS and the other week I decided that digging my knees in at 90mph and feeling the long travel suspension moving I thought enough is enough and lets not open that right hand anymore.  | 
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