Ducati Nightmare!!!

[Riff Raff]

I don't like it when your mates come up to you and say " I had a dream that you crashed your bike"...


What the?????

According to my very authorititititative dream book (Oh god here I go again) - the person doing the dreaming will have a serious accident or business difficulties. For a woman, however, this dream denotes the inability to choose between two men, with disagreeable consequences.

WTF? Why is it different for a woman? Aah, just looking at when it was published - 1980.

[Blakamin]

According to my very authorititititative dream book (Oh god here I go again) - the person doing the dreaming will have a serious accident or business difficulties. For a woman, however, this dream denotes the inability to choose between two men, with disagreeable consequences.

WTF? Why is it different for a woman? Aah, just looking at when it was published - 1980.

thanks... just went and put an empty cardboard box, of the PC variety (still square) and covered it wit 6 inches of foam... hate it when I'm not anywhere near my Duc!

[NC]

According to my very authorititititative dream book (Oh god here I go again) - the person doing the dreaming will have a serious accident or business difficulties. For a woman, however, this dream denotes the inability to choose between two men, with disagreeable consequences.

WTF? Why is it different for a woman? Aah, just looking at when it was published - 1980.

Ah could be bad then...

[matthewt]

BTW... i'm serious about the Ducati Suicide Stand™ bit... they flick up the moment there is no weight on them.... I really need to know if someone has a remedy... or if its happened?

Do a search on the internet. there are numerous fixes for this. From memory the early 916's had the same stand (as did the 2000/2001 mv f4's). Otherwise ask Wayne at Motomart, he may of done a few already.

[Eddieb]

Had a nightmare in the 1 hour of sleep this morning... there was an earthquake and my "Ducati Suicide Stand™" flicked up and my bike was on its side

I have a Ducati Suicide Stand™ remedy on my bike. You can check it out whenever.

If you look at your stand the top end of the spring attaches to a short straight piece of steel which rests against one of the stand bolts. The Ducati Suicide Stand™ fix is a bent piece of steel that wraps around that bolt. Very simple and I've had no issues since fitting it.

I got mine in the UK, don't know where you could get one in NZ but any engineering shop could probably make one out of a piece of scrap in 5 minutes, and it takes another 5 minutes to fit.

[toads]

I reckon you are trying to sort a whole load of issues out at once, and your mind is doing overtime, the blue pills sound kind of dodgy, a healthier alternative is taking the duke out for a good blat, I find riding clears my mind of everything except the road , very good for giving the mind a rest from seemingly unsolvable problems

[Riff Raff]

What exam you got on tuesday?? And why you not finished your case studies? Is that for nat cert ??? thought you had done them long ago.

GTN and Glucagon. I procrastinated all day yesterday, evensofar as going out and buying chrome polish and spending a wonderful hour polishing every bit of metal I could reach on my bike. Then I had to go and work at Waikaraka Park, so I didn't get much done at all. Hopefully it will be a Q day today at work so I can get stuff done. Hey how come your name is down in Forum as starting on the 15th? I thought you started ages ago.

[dangerous]

BTW... i'm serious about the Ducati Suicide Stand™ bit... they flick up the moment there is no weight on them.... I really need to know if someone has a remedy... or if its happened?

Chill.............. out bout the stand man when I 1st got the Guzzi I was constantly worrying bout the same thing, only cos it was something new and different.
So, forget about it........ and you will find like I did that ya get quite use to it, they are excelant for Le Mans starts at the pub.... its funny watching Suzuki's stalling as they are put into gear, mate I was going to cut the nob of the top of mine but glad I dident as once you get used to it its safer than a normal stand set up.
I did find that after I got used to getting of the bike 1st (cos the Guzzi stand is up frount of the engine block) then putting the stand down that it became 2nd nature

[ZorsT]

well, erinalba, what does your dream book say it means if you have a dream your dad is taking over the world with corn, and is using clones of people to harvest this corn, and he uses a small blue calculator as a tool for cloning???

i know...sorry

this is not MY dream of course.......

[SPman]

Of course, there are those among us that would suggest, just owning a Ducati, is a nightmare in itself!

[Riff Raff]

well, erinalba, what does your dream book say it means if you have a dream your dad is taking over the world with corn, and is using clones of people to harvest this corn, and he uses a small blue calculator as a tool for cloning???

i know...sorry

this is not MY dream of course.......

Oh my God - it means doom and destruction to all nations that like to indulge in nachos.
Actually I'm at work so can't look it up, but somehow I doubt that this dream is covered. It probably means you have FITH syndrome! (something I have in abundance)

[LB]

I was almost too scared to read this thread....but I did.

Mine don't have the suicide stand, they're "normal" ones.

[Bonez]

BTW... i'm serious about the Ducati Suicide Stand™ bit... they flick up the moment there is no weight on them.... I really need to know if someone has a remedy... or if its happened?

Why did Ducati ever toss the mainstand? My mates wee '82 Pantah 500 has no such issue.

[Blakamin]

I was almost too scared to read this thread....but I did.

And it just got scarier????