I agree completely, electronic suspension is a little pointless cos if you find a decent road setting and a decent track setting all you need is a bit of paper and a pen and 5mins clicking turns in out out save the money and get better suspension is my call.
Think I'd have to go APRC though mate which are the newer variants, best electronic package on the market apparently
Oh thats not so bad at all 149pcm! Well no 1199 for me this year but next will be the time to buy imo or rven the year after once its done dome time in wsb, I think its going to be a weapon once its done some track time and leasons learnt about the geom etc.. I may get a sneaky go this weekend.... Wooo hooo!
Lol maybe.. my mate Paul with the BMW has just traded it in today for the 2012! They are swapping all his bling etc onto the new bike f.o.c! And he gets his 1199s tricolour in two or three weeks time! Now thats a lucky bugger!! As for the 1199 the one to have imo is the 16k 1199 with ABS then get Ohlins kit later on, the ABS is a must as its not like any other abs and will help tame the big fat M50's and 330mm discs. My GP4s and T Drive discs could do with abs let me tell you!
See at 4 years my ears have just pricked up lol Don't get me wrong I'd take the panigale all day long I was simply comparing the vfm regards to kit
I just read this thread from the beginning and drooled over the duck. I have decided to prep the blade for track and am now off to order my tri colour. via the papershop where i'm gonna stick a fiver in camelots direction.
I did the loto yesterday... If I win I can open my dream bike shop with free food and drink for all....lol
i just found this pic on my phone, i was in the gf sisters detailing shop in Wrexham and it adjoins a bike workshop. I think they said the guy was a racer of sorts anyway he had a few quids worth in there and was a Ducati man as well looked mint
Dont mean to be picky BUT the R model should have full blown TTX36 shock and not that DU511... maybe they downgraded it...
hmmmmm i dunno mate but it looked nice anyway he also had a 955s there and a price tag of oiro £20,000
Me and Chris went over to have a look at the 1199 got him a test ride on the 1198 base to get an idea of what a big twin is like, I went on my SuperMoto for the laugh was going to offer a go of the big Yam but thought he'd need to shave his head in case he gets stopped...lol
Yeah come on Chris tell us what you thought of the base 1198! Tell you one thing I know it's another level but we all talk about what's best this and that but at top level where all have the same rules and regs that 1098R don't do bad for a 5 year old bike just shows that you can have this and that in 2012 and it be not faster than something from 2007 guess that was the magic year for race bikes..
Just went to Ducati in Bristol to have a butchers at the 1199 as I had a meeting up there, can not get over how small the bike is ! Looked at the S model and it is drop dead gorgeous, the wheels, the shocks everything and the best back end I have seen on any bike My mate had to drag me out of the shop as I started asking possible trade in prices on the blade !!!!!!
