Would you buy an old Ducati?

[weeksy]

Now you guys know why I don't ride the zx6

[Yorick]

Now you guys know why I don't ride the zx6

You would if it was painted orange

[KungFooBob]

Now you guys know why I don't ride the zx6

You would if it was painted orange

He could pull two of the plug caps off to give it some character too!

[Count Steer]

Now you guys know why I don't ride the zx6

You would if it was painted orange

He could pull two of the plug caps off to give it some character too!

Pull 2 - feels like a Guzzi
Pull 3 - feels like a BSA
Pull 4 - behaves like a Ducati

[Noggin]

My lovely old (relatively!) Ducati starts really well. Only time I ever had an issue was after it had been sat in a garage for about 8 months. Which reminds me, I need to go down to the garage and start it - just to see if it does!!

Sadly it can't be my daily bike, but that isn't really the bikes fault. It will still be used more than looked at!!

[Supermofo]

My lovely old (relatively!) Ducati starts really well. Only time I ever had an issue was after it had been sat in a garage for about 8 months. Which reminds me, I need to go down to the garage and start it - just to see if it does!!

Sadly it can't be my daily bike, but that isn't really the bikes fault. It will still be used more than looked at!!

If you aren't gonna ride it probably best not too. Starting a bike in the freezing cold without getting it really nice and hot like when you go for a ride is more likely just to cause a bunch of condensation

[KungFooBob]

That's my local Trumpet Dealership, it's 8 miles from my front door.

Want me to go look at it for you?

[v8-powered]

I think these have aged very nicely...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185617754412 ... R6Cwm_uhYQ

Controversial I'm sure but they are far nicer than the whole 748, 916, 996, 998 range - a far better looking bike I think.

[KungFooBob]

I rode a 999 and found it crippling at anything under 80mph... I has just jumped off my armchair RRW Blade tho'

[Mr. Dazzle]

I agree the 999 shape has aged quite well, the problem is it started off at "Fugly younger sibling" and has just about reached "yeah it's OK I 'spose" now.

[weeksy]

As you'd expect, we've owned most of the genre

downloadt_080811_2685 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

weeksy1 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

748 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Bike006 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

DSC_5912 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

The one i'd own again is the 848... Ours was pretty trick i'll admit, but it was a lovely lovely thing.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

That looks like a Scalextric Porsche that I got for Xmas in about 1977

[Mr. Dazzle]

I think I could also be tempted by a Ducati engined special, certainly a tidy DB2 if one was close enough to have a look at.

Now you're talkin'.

Lose the paint job from a group B rally car and I'm in.

[Mr Moofo]

^ that looks awful. What is going on with the seat unit?
And the Barry Boys paint job?

[Mr Moofo]

^ that looks awful. What is going on with the seat unit?
And the Barry Boys paint job?

I think it looks brilliant, it's the very essence of 1990's motorbikes, like a shell suit GSXR but more sexy and curvy and Italian.

Bimota seemed to capture that era brilliantly, but to be fair they didn't always get it right, as an example of the difference in yours and my personal taste then the reason I could never own a Diavel is because all I see when I look at them is a Bimota Mantra.

Really?
Good job you don’t work in marketing

[Taipan]

Even on the darkest and foggiest of nights, I couldn't see anyone cocking their leg over the wrong one!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

They're both very ugly, I'm not sure which one repulses me more, the Mantra is less camp.

[Skub]

They're both very ugly, I'm not sure which one repulses me more, the Mantra is less camp.

McSanta will hunt you down and eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Or worse.

[Rockburner]

I'd be tempted by an '80s Ducati, but only because I've been there before and would know what to expect, assuming that's what I'd be looking for, and currently that wouldn't happen because I've now got a temperamental classic to tinker with.

[Mr Moofo]

They're both very ugly, I'm not sure which one repulses me more, the Mantra is less camp.

McSanta will hunt you down and eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti. Or worse.

And I will help him.
The V4 Diavel is all becoming a bit Gianni Versace - those wheels, that exhaust - they have already had a Lambo version of the 1260 - which looks like an old tart's handbag.


But we have seen that LFG rides old shonkers the nobody else wants ...