seriously mate, at that price and in those colours, if i hadnt just bought a new car, booked a two week holiday in march, committed to a scotland tour and a 9 day big one round europe all by June and still got the blade track conversion to finish off i would be all over it and the poor old R1 would be being shipped out! ha ha!! sure there will be others? ;(
Oh shiiiiiiiiiiit. I do likey that a lotty. Very lotty. Reading below being the base with ABS is bang on for me, just needs the termi exhaust system, a tail tidy and I would be done. There is no point in me changing till the spring for it to sit in a garage all winter. Let’s hope its not going to be a one off because it would be a strong contender. The kids inheritance might well take another pounding.
My mates wife (with the 1199) said the other week when I was round his "thats a nice Orange bike" Yeah I said thats a Honda... as I fired it up to go my mate said "yeah but listen to it"... I said I know Dave thats the sound of reliability....lol
yeah sure I rem you from ducatisti too, had a few chats in the 848 section I think. also a few other names from the ducati forums I notice on here....including a certain HRC rider saying a 1199 is in his sights
The biggest difference for me changing from Ducati ownership to Honda re-ownership is that with the Honda I put on my leathers before I start the bike.
Yeah with the old desmo (916) motors warm up was critical! After all the things dont get no oil for the first 80 or so secs!
I remember last winter heading home in the snow after a night shift, think it took about ten minutes for the 848 to heat up.once warm the seat kept you nice and warm.I switched back to honda as I lost my job and needed a bike that I could do all my own work one. really want another duke mind you.
what did you have?? I never had any starting issues with mine, I even made a video when guys were telling me on facebook that they never start first time in the cold damn ducati reliability | Facebook
A '96 750 ss. If it didn't start first prod, chances were it would only fire up one cylinder at all. Get the start sequence wrong, full choke, do not touch the throttle whatsoever throughout the entire sequence and keep the button down until it either fired or the battery died, no short, controlled bursts and it was plugs out, hairdryer on, start all over again. Funny thing is, I do miss it terribly.
