748 748r

lots of factors mate, mileage, condition, history, year, ohlins model ???

if its a mint,low milage 02 ohlins model your looking at £12k

 

you got a link, because there is a fake one on ebay also, well not a fake but I think it's ex race bike, has the wrong forks etc.

 

is it one of these you want?

 

That looks very tasty in yellow.

 

here is the auction
https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2002-ducati-748r

 

i actually wanted a red one at the time but the yellow has grown on me

 

Great quality photos!

What did you take them with?

 

it will certainly climb past 10k but id be looking for the standard cans, dust cover, rear paddock stand, toolkit etc. frame plugs, clutch (pressure plate at least), clutch cover, seat pad, sprocket cover, not original so might want to factor that in

its had belts recently which is a plus but id want to know what condition the clutch is in. when i had mine recommissioned i had to get a new clutch pack and basket which was not that cheap

 

i had a blackberry key2 at the time and looks like a i used some enhancement filters too

 

Buyers premium 5% plus VAT to add on don’t forget. Min £600.

 

I would have thought that would go for way over £10k. My mate bought almost the same bike last year for £10500 from a dealer with 4k miles on it. His is a 53 plate so must be one of the very last ones.

 

i had no idea they were registered into 2003... good to know

 

I love my one in yellow

 

This comes up quite a lot, and I have (somewhere) the original sales brochures from 2003 when they ran the 748 (all variants) and the 749 as overlap models, it was most strange, the brochure was just like a double brochure where there was no reference made to why the 749 was new and the 748 old. I just think maybe they rushed to get the 749/999 out a year earlier so had lots of part built prev bikes, or they just had loads of built bikes and a slow end to sales in 2002.

 

There were some that were registered as late as 04, I have also heard of an 05 which had sat in a show room for ages before being sold at a hefty discount. Sales slowed as the 749 was due but had restricted initial production to meet the demand. Many people delayed purchasing an old design awaiting the new one to come out, as is the case with new or facelift vehicles whenever they are released. What Ducati did not do was issue them as MY03s as some folks think (or get confused by) they are simply MY02s using up the engines and other components concurrently with the 998 production. There were some parts used from Spring 01 production of the MY02 bikes that are unique to the final production runs, presumably to get the component stocks balanced to get completed bikes out of the factory door.

 

And red outsold yellow by (IIRC) about 4:1 on the 02 model. So yellow, despite being slower, are rarer.

 

Couldn’t make a choice….

 

Awesome.