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I'm off to the bathroom....
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:28 pm
by Shug
DUCATI DESMOSEDICI RR
....oh God
I need to clean myself up
http://www.ducati.com/od/ducatiuk/en/ne ... yTitle=ST3
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:35 pm
by Rich H
Hmmm, nice wheels!
Is it a 2 stroke.....
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:54 pm
by craigieb
omg... and i've just got rid of me bike and transfered to 4 wheels
personaly prefer this one
hypermotard... but them I'm biased
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:38 pm
by GregR
only thing that would have me risk life, limb, and a little spinal fluid for would be a 916. Yup, there's quicker machines out there, but that's the only one (think nick cage and that farking Mustang in 'Gone in 60 seconds)
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:11 pm
by jj
Know what you mean Greg.
When I was wee me and my bro used to sit out on the main road and watch the bikers heading past toward largs. We could tell from about a mile away when the 916`s were coming.
I have never ridden a bike nor do I really want to, but a lottery win would see a 916 in my garage just to start it up and listen to it.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:25 pm
by Rich H
I would love to ride a bike but I'm worried about the fecking eejits that now drive our roads. (And not just Lotus owners!
) the fcuknuckles that drive SUVs to schools and pull out on me in the liz
I now have quite alot of respect for the crash structure on the Liz having seen one fold a 4" metal signpost in 2 and barely be damaged! but a bike would end up bit soft squishy me getting terminally mangled.
Still thinking about a commuting bike but still very aprehesive....
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:28 pm
by Rich H
Why...........................
What?
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:39 pm
by jj
Sure it`d be great if you knew what you were doing, but the real prospect of how easily I could kill myself is enough to put me off.
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:39 pm
by Rich H
Fair
I am not a fan of a look-at-and-polish brigade, more Goodwood-revival-thrash-the-tits-off-the-vintage-bike/car person
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:49 pm
by GregR
in fairness - the 916 was not a bike to be driven daily! you can't see the dials unless in a racing crouch, and the radiator had issues if the front ever got lifted. Plus.. if you put the power on too much - you'd end up in a hedge.
I say all that having never ridden one!
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:27 am
by Sanjøy
That the Duke that has the cans exiting at the top where the pillion normally is ?
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:52 am
by GregR
Sanjoy wrote:That the Duke that has the cans exiting at the top where the pillion normally is ?
can't really identify them that way matey - t'is a common duke trait, see 916 996, 999
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:59 am
by Sanjøy
No I meant literally they exit vert and would toast your bullet hole.
http://londonbikers.com/article/fc08acf ... 543791f42c
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:59 am
by ed
does look stunning!
Always wanted to get my bike licence but too effing dangerous!
Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:20 am
by greyrigg
The Desmosedici looks fantatstic......and the new 1098 to replace the 999 is supposed to be based on the styling of it so it should be a proper job...
I gave up my bike when I got my first Elise, lasted three months and to this day if I had to give up one of them it woud be the Exige that would go first.
The 90 degree v twin in the ducati has a sound all of its own and with the termi pipes on it, it is awsome. I see nothing wrong with buying one just to look at and listen to
Malcolm