If you have the money i would jump on this one, very tidy, not to everyone's taste but all cosmetic!! https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1230825
https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/2004-ducati-749r.36747/#post-656442 Yep was well set up and wanted to rev and rev. So much so, I bought a 749r supersport ex Rider bike and sold the road bike to James. I remeber seeing it on here after me and they sold/on commission to jhp, as they sold it on. I am sure it had all the conversion done by the time jhp got it. It is a pretty Marmite bike. Converting a std bike to how it ended up.
Thanks Wayne. I’d seen that but hadn’t registered that it was the same bike being sold on eBay. This one: https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1217326 does look interesting (very original from what I can see) but I haven’t heard back from the seller yet. Also chatting to somebody about an early biposto with a vin in the early 200’s. I didn’t know they started making them that early.
I was looking at that one it took me two days to get when it was last serviced out of him (kept responding with odd answers)which he now has put on description, That one is very tidy but will need belts etc sorting, i would message the other one the one i posted, no pressure , patience grasshopper!!
I just didn’t understand the idle issue, easily sorted. I swopped it for my RC8. I did keep the nose, mirrors, headlights & unit for a while and all other original parts. I’m surprised how much it went for. Wasn’t me selling though, the bike ran very well though and can honestly say I never had a single issue with it
I’m with @WAYNE , go fir the one at 7995, IMO the one at 8990 is asking too much. 916 prices seem to be high IMO. I can understand the very early ones from 94/5 fetching top money as people regard them as the ‘Original‘ ones, especially if covered in Cagiva elephants but I don’t understand it for anything towards the end of the run. As you said yourself at 8-10k you’ll get a 996S. At 10k ish you’ll get a 998S, both rarer (especially the 998S) than the 916s. Just my tuppence.
As you call them Tuppences, rather than 2 Pees, or Two Pence Pieces, I take it you mean the 1797 George III “Cartwheel” copper coins? You must be older than I thought @West Cork Paul !!!
I wasn’t aware of that usage? ‘tuppence (countable and uncountable, plural tuppences) (Britain, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency). Milk has gone up to tuppenceha'penny a pint. (Britain, idiomatic) Opinion. (Britain, slang, usually childish) Vulva or vagina.’ I wonder what Tuppence Middleton thinks of her parents choice of name?
