It did, It made it better but it still isnt as easy to ride at 30mph as the pani. I'd be in 2nd and it'd feel like it was straining at the leash. With hindsight, I wouldnt go full 70mm. I'd leave it with just the slash cuts and knobble the EX valve. A slipper is also compulsory.
Exactly the same with my 999. Wrists fine but increasing pain in the neck. Now fixed with Helibars Not cheap but definitely worthwhile. To look at, the bars appear to be oem but they don’t droop as much and that makes all the difference.
I usually have a double bubble and I also tend to tuck in. My neck is usually okay. I have weak wrists. Broke em both, twice. So they tend to give me jip. Plus I have only 2 fingers in left hand with any strength in em. One of those has now got rhumatoid arthritis on it. Fuck this getting old lark. Now the only useful finger on left is middle one, which is a small blessing I guess.
Unless something amazing turns up, I'm ruling out a 1098. It's a 1198 or a 1199....probably. A while back I sat on a 1299 and a 1199 at a dealer, and the 1299 seat height was a lot higher, is that normal, or just the way the 2 bikes had been set up?
How can you identify a swelled tank, steering damper touching, ignition barrel clearance, anything else?
I think they all swell a bit and touch the steering damper mount, not sure how much clearance there was when new.
I have an 09 1198 (not S) and I love it, great fun away from the lights when with a few mates . Not had any problems with swelling tank. Had it serviced during my Desmo service, at Louigi Moto. Also he refuses to fit a QS for me lol. He says it’ll eat the gearbox in no time. What he doesn’t know isn’t worth knowing. IMO. Also I’ve ridden the S and mine back to back and felt the S was pretty harsh on the road. Very hard ride don’t know if it was how it was set up ♂️. I rode a demo V4 and STILL think my 1198 is way better. Mines less refined it rattles and vibrates like hell, with no rider aides and just raw arm ripping off the mark. I heard on here the 1198 is the last Ducati that hairy chested men ride. .
Yeah, my dealer said that to me and I said it on here. https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/1098r-the-perfect-ducati.66772/#post-1249356
This isn't the one in cmc is it? Was up in cube Huddersfield for a while, they couldn't start it up there and having them too at cmc they couldn't either, or answer some history stuff... Enough for me to walk away..... Just saying
Looks clean enough on their web site, but I reckon £8.5k is a lot for a base model 1098. As others have said, I'd look for an 1198 (base or S). Also, personally I wouldn't get too hung up on "low mileage". The bike at St Neots is around 12 years old, and if my arithmetic is correct, that's an average of around 300 miles per year - even I can put more than that on a bike in a year! I'd wonder what happened in the meantime while it wasn't being ridden...
The pictures don't do it justice, it's like new. Plus the brand new tank, and they're going to put belts on when it sells. They sold it new, I've known them for 40 years and they're good guys. If it was an S or an 1198 I'd probably have bought it.
