Are Ducatis really worth it?

**kneescraper** · 31st July 2007, 19:32

Originally Posted by Wannabiker

Had my 900s for about a month now. Tegmioni pipes set off car alarms along the street in Lower Hutt!! Has been tweaked a little to gove over 90 hp and it hauls!! 2 valve air cooled motor is pretty bulletproof and has been around for a while... Always attracts attention, even when parked!

NOW THATS A SEXY BIKE!!!!! Thats almost (no offence) as sexy as a 996! Is the bike good two up Wannabiker?

**nudemetalz** · 31st July 2007, 20:02

What ever happened to the Supermono?
They never made it into a road bike unfortunately, reckon it would have made a great street-legal machine.
(75hp @10,000rpm from 550cc single and only 125kg dry !!)

It's also one of the best looking Dukes.
(you can see hints of the styling on the later 900SS's I guess)

**spudchucka** · 31st July 2007, 20:08

Here's mine.

**bimotabob** · 31st July 2007, 20:21

Originally Posted by Fumeux

999s are surprisingly cheap for what you're getting.

Seeing them for 16-17k on trademe.

What your getting is deviod of decent style and nice lines like the 916.
It's not surprising that they are "cheap" they just look shocking.
I have not heard a nice thing about how they look since they came out.
I think they (Duacti) copped a lot of flack but the new model makes up for the
shall we say momentary lapse of reason.

Regards
Jason

**young1** · 31st July 2007, 20:21

Originally Posted by Wannabiker

Had my 900s for about a month now. Tegmioni pipes set off car alarms along the street in Lower Hutt!! Has been tweaked a little to gove over 90 hp and it hauls!! 2 valve air cooled motor is pretty bulletproof and has been around for a while... Always attracts attention, even when parked!

I had a yellow 750 with arrow pipes, used to have the same problem parking in the garage at work, when I started it the car alarms would go off (sure made me get out of the garage quick).

My first proper road bike, a Ducati was all I had ever wanted since I saw a Ducati Damagh(?) in the late 1970s.

**manwithav8** · 31st July 2007, 20:33

SO what if there is a little extra maintenance. Learn to do it yourself, that way you will get to know your bike more, and more, and more....That way if the slightest thing is out of the ordinary, you will know!!!

Duc MOnster by the way!!

**kneescraper** · 31st July 2007, 20:36

I have to 100% disagree with you mate! I think the 999s are real hot, their front lights stacked on top of each other are awesome. Even my wife thinks they are hot...so that says something.

Originally Posted by bimotabob

What your getting is deviod of decent style and nice lines like the 916.
It's not surprising that they are "cheap" they just look shocking.
I have not heard a nice thing about how they look since they came out.
I think they (Duacti) copped a lot of flack but the new model makes up for the
shall we say momentary lapse of reason.

Regards
Jason

**Drew** · 31st July 2007, 21:08

It's fuckin simple, a bikes worth, is what someone is prepared to pay for it. END OF STORY.

If a guy or girl is willing to pay the extra for the bike they want, it's worth it to them, and that's all that counts.

**McJim** · 31st July 2007, 21:13

I just couldn't be arsed with a bike that needed serviced every 6,000 km so got a ducati with a 10,000 km service interval.

Saves me a few hundered dollars per year in maintenence.

Yeah, it's worth getting a Ducati just to save on the service costs...sorry, was that the question?

**Masterchop** · 31st July 2007, 21:25

Originally Posted by bimotabob

What your getting is deviod of decent style and nice lines like the 916.
It's not surprising that they are "cheap" they just look shocking.
I have not heard a nice thing about how they look since they came out.
I think they (Duacti) copped a lot of flack but the new model makes up for the
shall we say momentary lapse of reason.

Regards
Jason

You ride a Bimota mate, are you really qualified to knock the looks of the 999.

**Ghost_Bullet** · 31st July 2007, 21:29

Ducati worth it... mmmm no no, just a little to much charactor uh, who wants to be roadside when you can be tearing on down the seal..... just enuf charactor is what ya need.

Enuf said

**Wannabiker** · 31st July 2007, 21:31

Originally Posted by kneescraper

NOW THATS A SEXY BIKE!!!!! Thats almost (no offence) as sexy as a 996! Is the bike good two up Wannabiker?

Yep! Took the girlfriend for a spin the other day (on a closed road course... of course!) Changed into 6th gear just over 200kph...and still pulln!!! Oh...pulls the chicks too. If you gettn a Ducati...get a biposto (2seater) coz yep, you WILL get to take chicks for a ride!!

**T.W.R** · 31st July 2007, 21:36

Originally Posted by kneescraper

I have to 100% disagree with you mate! I think the 999s are real hot, their front lights stacked on top of each other are awesome. Even my wife thinks they are hot...so that says something.

The 916 has classic lines by comparison but they looked totally horrible with the single square headlight that aussie had to put up with

looked like someone had just got an aftermarket light & superglued it to the fairing