enigma51
25th January 2007, 20:19
One of the guys at work gave me the keys to his Ducati S4rs with all the ducati bling you can find fitted. I realy mean all the bling. Carbon every where race kit fitted the whole works. Now I must say I was suprised that he did give me the keys to the bike cause the thing cost him about $35 000 :gob: and if I pay that much for a bike I would not hand the keys over to to anyone.
Whow what a ride though power everywhere and no not like most two cyclinders the red line is not at 8000 but more like 11 000. I did not take it that far though cause its not mine and dont want to break it ( Only cause I cant afford to replace it). It handles pretty well although there it dives alot under braking which im sure can be fixed with turning a few screws and nobs. But once you get over the initial dive the suspension gives good feedback.
Now im by no means someone that can wheelie on demand but this thing only required half a throttle to get floating in the first two gears and a full handfull in 3rd.
There is two things that i did not like but its not something that realy put me off the bike more like a "thats different" than a "this is shit". The first one is the steering circle. Its not realy bad its just I expected more from a naked bike. When you come to a corner it seems to need more room than the gsxr does. The other little thing was at 3000 rpm's its jurky when you are in first so if you are thinking about slowly pulling away from the lights, simply forget it. So next time you pull up to ducati monster s4rs at a traffic light and he's giving it some, he's not up for a race just trying to get rid of the shakes!
Now the big question will I buy one if i had the money? NOPE for that amount of money I can get 1098 or if i want a naked I can get 2 buels for the same price and most likely have some bling money left. Or does the name Ducati hold so much value?
Whow what a ride though power everywhere and no not like most two cyclinders the red line is not at 8000 but more like 11 000. I did not take it that far though cause its not mine and dont want to break it ( Only cause I cant afford to replace it). It handles pretty well although there it dives alot under braking which im sure can be fixed with turning a few screws and nobs. But once you get over the initial dive the suspension gives good feedback.
Now im by no means someone that can wheelie on demand but this thing only required half a throttle to get floating in the first two gears and a full handfull in 3rd.
There is two things that i did not like but its not something that realy put me off the bike more like a "thats different" than a "this is shit". The first one is the steering circle. Its not realy bad its just I expected more from a naked bike. When you come to a corner it seems to need more room than the gsxr does. The other little thing was at 3000 rpm's its jurky when you are in first so if you are thinking about slowly pulling away from the lights, simply forget it. So next time you pull up to ducati monster s4rs at a traffic light and he's giving it some, he's not up for a race just trying to get rid of the shakes!
Now the big question will I buy one if i had the money? NOPE for that amount of money I can get 1098 or if i want a naked I can get 2 buels for the same price and most likely have some bling money left. Or does the name Ducati hold so much value?