I would venture to suggest that with the more sports orientation, an assumption is that the engine will spend more time in the high rev range which equates to more regular servicing. Andy
I guess its more influence of VW and the car side, trying to have no 'gap' between any model range that a customer might fall out of.
I started watching the video earlier, got a few minutes in and switched off. Multi's hooning around a race track, crossed up wheelies down the straights... It just doesn't look right to me, it's not what a Multi is about.
It seems to me that Ducati has built a bike that nobody really wanted,apart from for some weird form of bragging rights. I love my V4S. It’s fantastic and the handling with the 19” front is very sure-footed and planted. If I wanted something with even more scope in the handling department then I would get a Pani or an SF. This PP weighs 240kgs FFS !! And that’s with light weight wheels and an Akra etc. It’s ridiculous and seems to simply be built to appeal to vain glorious braggers who think they’ll impress people on their Uber steed, when secretly most are probably thinking….”there goes that bellend again”. You only have to witness the few on here with a 1260 who denounced the V4 with a 19” wheel even before they rode it,slating it for not having a 17” front. I certainly wouldn’t pay £30k for the PP (with luggage etc).It’s utter madness. It’ll sell a few, to the people you just know will just have to get one. Quite sad really.
I'll see you and all of the other V4 PP's in the fast group at Donny then, because that how it's has been marketed.
Says the person attempting to justify why they bought the V4S.........Oh and before you respond, NO I don't want a V4S thankyou, it is simply awful to look at, even though technically I've little doubt it is an excellent machine. I'm quite satisfied retaining my 1260S as side by side with the V4S or V4 in any guise, the 1260 beats it, for me anyway, hands-down
Gotta say, I think it's the better looking V4 multi, but the seat still looks too dished and low. Can't we have a normal man sized seat height? Also, is it definitely £25k? Oh....and ffs, can all the short people stop buying bikes so us normal sized fellas get consideration again, honestly it's easier for you lot to buy boots with heels than it is for me to saw my legs off
but true, there are loads of small bikes out there for the vertically challenged. Just the same as there are loads of short women. I keep seeing 4foot ten blokes with six foot tall birds. Obviously these blokes are not looking at their faces...
Honestly it's a continuing trend & completely unfair. It's not as though I wouldn't help any short motorbike rider get something off the top shelf in a supermarket, or help them fake minimum height restrictions at Alton Towers. I always point them out at the bar when it's their turn and the barman can't see them down there. Shit, I'd even give them shoulder rides for a treat....I try you know So why can't they give me back normal seat heights on motorbikes? Selfish bastards, it's not like a pair of these are expensive
And there folks speaks the voice of someone who now wishes he'd just waited another year to get the "proper" Multistrada, the one that most had anticipated in the first place, but he just couldn't wait and vanity and bragging rights got in the way and he ended up with a "lowly" V4S I think we can all guess who the real "bellend" is . I was one of the "denouncers" but I never doubted the V4 would be an extremely capable bike even with the "dreaded" 19" front wheel but, before I'd even consider buying one, I have to like the look of it and in my opinion it's just fugly!! The PP looks the part imo, agreed it's ridiculously expensive but that goes for the majority of motorcycles these days, you can blame the PCP for that I guess , will I get one never say never!
Too true! I was also a denouncer, love the new PP but it's gonna weigh more than a herd of elephants and the price is way too salty for me, but great bike if you've got the wonga.
It's very easy to add height to things, much harder to take height out of a motorcycle. Just pop a cushion on the seat or petition Ducati for "tall" seats. By simple maths Ducati will sell more bikes this way, tall riders have the choice of any bike. Women may even buy one. The stumpy legged were significantly excluded for quite a while across all the major manufacturers, why should they have to only ride small capacity bikes. The GS had a large part of this segment because of their height options.
I understand what you're saying, but adding height to things requires the manufacturers to offer higher seat options and some don't. And it's always at considerable extra cost in the premium segment. Look I get it, shorter people have probably been excluded from some purchases too over the years because of height issues, but that goes both ways you know. I mean I always bang my head which is likely to have affected my brain and I can't sit in normal legroom Ryanair flights, or I can't easily get access to the ball pools at soft play centres attached to pubs, and I have to stand at the back in photographs so the kids and vertically challenged adults can get at the front.... In fact the more I think about this the more it feels like us taller people are discriminated against, for years having to be at the back, travel cramped, all things we can't do anything about whilst the tiddlers of society can opt to buy a range of varying height option heeled boots, stilts and all that cheap fix type stuff. No....this is where we make a stand, draw a line, say hell no hobbit guys and girls. Buy some stilts, get some heeled boots (you'll look lovely BTW) enough is enough short stuff #buildmansizedbikes
