It's a beauty Phill - especially from that angle but alas and alack I need a bip and I don't want to have to mod a perfectly good mono to get there...
Something odd is happening with 999 prices to be sure...I've been studying the market for a good 2 months now. The odd thing is that 999 asking prices are beginning to touch early 848 asking prices - and in some cases nearly touching early 1098 prices. However a lot of 999's seem to have sat on the showroom floor for a long time despite keen (for a dealer ) prices. For private sales if you look at the completed listings nearly all 999's do not even make reserve let alone sell - the ones that do sell seem to be £4k or less. Gawd knows what that means - it could be over ambitious private sellers ramping the price up - it could mean a growing appreciation of the 749/999 amongst the bike buying public. But with the 848/1098 being 'almost' current shape if not spec will that work out in the long run - especially with new to Ducati or the younger buyer...??? Personally I think ALL 999's are overvalued by at least 25%.... but then I'm a buyer so that may change when I get one! .
Most bikes being sold by dealers are 25% too expensive. A £4000 749 can be picked up for less than £3000 privately.
Doesnt sound too far off if 06 ws 5k, maybe 3-3500 as a trade in but without SH the delaer will trade it out I'd imagine so not worth anything other than selling one of his own
Well, I paid £5800 for my almost mint 2006 999s mono 2 years ago and I love it. I'd waited and waited for one to come up a grand cheaper and it didn't happen. I bought it off ebay when I was at Daytona watching the 200 in 2012. Sent the guy a deposit via PayPal and picked it up the week after I got back from the states. Will I lose money on it ? I'll find out when I sell it. oh, it's not for sale btw. Its one hell of a road bike ( apart from the mirrors ). Not as good as my ST4S mind but that's another story.
Yep Wassy - your comment 'it's a hell of a road bike' sums it up! I like the look and dynamics of a 999 - it;s powerful enough for me and the 848s/1098s have a bland 'Hondaesque' look in comparison IMHO. I want to look over my shoulder and admire it every time I park it up. The 999 ticks all the boxes on that score so sod the comparative cost to an 848... up to a point! :wink:
Are you SURE you want a Biposto Moo? The way the 999 rides and steers I would have thought it would be absolutely HORRENDOUS with somebody on the back...!! Maybe you should test-ride one with a passenger before you commit yourself? just a thought cheers, Dom
My wife and I went for a ride on my 07 GSXR750 and we went out and bought a 650 burgman a week later! she wasn't comfortable, I wasn't comfortable, it flattened the centre strip of the rear tyre in one day.... I agree with Dom 100%.....unless you prefer the style/looks...
Ah yes I agree with you Dom ...but I have got some special circumstamces...in the shape of 2 teenage daughters. My missus hates going on the back (went pillion only once, in 1986) . Suits me! However take daughters on very short trips to ACE cafe , short spins . deliver to gymnastics sessions etc - only occasionally and never more than 10 miles in central / suburban London so don't need pillion to be very comfortable just be there. Don't do much 10/10th cornering inside the North Circular either :biggrin:. When alone I have a few more kilos of pillion behind me but I'm not good enough to know the difference! When I take the bike out for fun all pillions are banned!
The Bip is highly useful for attaching the tailback to for long weekends away. You can't do that on a mono, so if it means attaching a hideous girder rack to it, or putting 1 CWT of crap into a rucksack, I know which I prefer. Looking cool is great, but if it stops you actually going somewhere and being comfortable doing it, it sort of defeats the purpose of a bike in the first place.
Agree Glid. I know that 90% of the time I'm on my own but that 10% is useful. I like the approach of the latest 848/1098 etc generation - sell it with a pimple back and offer footpeg hangers and a teesy bip seat as an option - easy! The extra few kilos for a 140bhp bike doesn't both me - I know the Mono LOOKS better, more racy and 'cafe racer' esque but I can live with that being fat and fifty and not exactly Johnny Depp! As for the hot legs well.... in my student holidays I made a few (very few) quid as a bike courier. I maybe be beaten round corners by a Nun on a Honda PC50 BUT I pride meself that I can get from Docklands to Marble Arch in the rain on a Friday rush hour in next to no time- give Foggy a run for his money! Don't spend much time in traffic standing still! ( apart from the Strand that's a bugger!) :biggrin:
But my mono looks good 100% of the time... And by my calculations thats 100% more of the time than the bip lol
