There's something about a yellow ducati

[gamgee]

Saw one go past me at an intersection and into Mceiver and vietch (motorbike shop down here) and instantly it caught my eye like no other bike has before, i wouldn't have a clue what it was apart from that it was shiny, yellow and a ducati, but my god did i want it as soon as i saw it, just that raw elegance and the fact that you know that you'll never see it's top speed, i want one so bad now, more than any bike before!

[White trash]

Nope, you'll never see its top speed because it'll break well before getting there.

[froggyfrenchman]

wt has a point

[Sniper]

Wt always has a good point regarding Duc's

[N4CR]

Mien got! Someone has the same yellow Ducati fetish as me

Nothing sexier than a yellow 748R/916 etc in yellow with a beautiful white patch on the rear fairing... *heaven*

I just stare at them and tend to drift around in the lanes or miss a once in every five minutes gap in traffic, happens every time for some reason...

I don't think I will ever get over it, I also don't know if one will ever sit in my garage one day, but we all have dreams right?

[Kickaha]

Wt always has a good point regarding Duc's

Ever owned one Sniper or Froggyfrenchman?

They're like any bike, they're as reliable as the guy that owns and services them and mine used to see it's top speed on a fairly regular basis (not that it was very high anyway) as it used tb get hammered every Ducati club run we went on

I had mine 6 years and 50,000km, did two 1000 milers and the Southern Cross, I had a big end failure not long after I bought it which was due to faulty assembly by V2 engineering and the japanse battery failed

Jjust about every horror story that I heard about Ducati's came from people that had only read about them

They will require more attention and money spent on them to get the same reliabilty as a Jappa but at the end of the day I had mine because I wanted it and I didn't care what other people thought about my choice

[avgas]

have the same feelings about orange laverda's.....sadly these too suffer the same fate.
Mind due i have seen a old Jota go full snot a scare the local japanese bike owners

[zadok]

Yellow is rather eye catching. I like these beaties. The Trumpy looks the goods too.

[Mooch]

Ignore WT, He's had too many years of selling and being brain washed by Suzuki. And how can you take someone seriously that made a living out of selling Harley's.
Froggyfrench man owns an old Triumph so would know lots about unreliable bikes and probably knows every nut and bolt intimately if he can see it under all that engine oil. Don't mention the word Triumph electrics or the word Lucas unless you want to see a grown man cry.
As for young "Sniper”, wait until he progresses to a Honda CBR1000, he'll truly understand the full meaning of the word "Lemon". There's another thread here on one of those.
As for top speed, mines done a number of sprint runs, don't remember it blowing up or anything , same in its racetrack days. I've read plenty of bike disaster stories here , but not many on Ducati and most have been hearsay. (Think Ducati knockers should put up or shut up)
Gamgee , looks like you've got a serious dose of Ducati envy , it won't stop until you own one. Totally agree on the colour as well, then again I might be considered biased.

[matthewt]

wt has a point

No he doesn't. He's just baiting a hook. You'd think a Harley fan would know better.

[Big Dave]

I like the look of them, and the sound - but mechanical failures have seriously injured 2 pretty good friends recently.


Pukee last saturday

[SARGE]

I like the look of them, and the sound -

i cant get past the sound of them.. nice bikes for sure.. i just think they sound like my pop's digger..

[Big Dave]

i cant get past the sound of them.. nice bikes for sure.. i just think they sound like my pop's digger..

yeah - I was thinking more old school - a darmah with dunstalls etc.
I think my favourite sounding motorcycle is a debaffled 1450 Road King. That is just a joy to listen to.
A worked Commando is close.

[idb]

Ever owned one Sniper or Froggyfrenchman?

They're like any bike, they're as reliable as the guy that owns and services them and mine used to see it's top speed on a fairly regular basis (not that it was very high anyway) as it used tb get hammered every Ducati club run we went on

I had mine 6 years and 50,000km, did two 1000 milers and the Southern Cross, I had a big end failure not long after I bought it which was due to faulty assembly by V2 engineering and the japanse battery failed

Jjust about every horror story that I heard about Ducati's came from people that had only read about them

They will require more attention and money spent on them to get the same reliabilty as a Jappa but at the end of the day I had mine because I wanted it and I didn't care what other people thought about my choice

Yeah...what he said...take that....hah!!

[idb]

Ignore WT, He's had too many years of selling and being brain washed by Suzuki. And how can you take someone seriously that made a living out of selling Harley's.
Froggyfrench man owns an old Triumph so would know lots about unreliable bikes and probably knows every nut and bolt intimately if he can see it under all that engine oil. Don't mention the word Triumph electrics or the word Lucas unless you want to see a grown man cry.
As for young "Sniper”, wait until he progresses to a Honda CBR1000, he'll truly understand the full meaning of the word "Lemon". There's another thread here on one of those.
As for top speed, mines done a number of sprint runs, don't remember it blowing up or anything , same in its racetrack days. I've read plenty of bike disaster stories here , but not many on Ducati and most have been hearsay. (Think Ducati knockers should put up or shut up)
Gamgee , looks like you've got a serious dose of Ducati envy , it won't stop until you own one. Totally agree on the colour as well, then again I might be considered biased.

Yeah...more comin' at ya...!