I don't care what anyone else thinks. I just love riding mine. It gives me the grin factor like nothing else I've ridden! I guess the same applies to whoever you are and whatever you ride, you ride it because you enjoy it! I'm sure if this question was asked on another forum you'd get pretty similar answers, with the possible exception of the piss taking!!
I would not call it a Hairdressers car. More like the hair salons receptionists car. Yeah, I have a '93..
We've had two MX5's and they are great cars to drive. A rear wheel drive two seater sports car being driven towards its limits on a twisty B road is probably the nearest you can get to the thrill of Motorcycling. Owning an MX5 doesn't make me jealous of Ferrari owners. After all they probably only take them out twice a year and never drive them to their limits.
Who cares what any one else thinks ? Surely we buy and ride our bikes because we love them. If you choose your car, bike , clothes etc because you are concerned what other people think then.......oh well , make up your own mind !
This was really the first reply to the thread.... But then we wouldn't have the exciting bit in the middle. Ride it like you stole it !!!!
We've had two MX5 's great cars. The latest is a 2 litre sport tech grips the corners like super glue. It will always be a hairdressers car though. The owners seem to be like sports bike riders too. The people that get out or remove their helmets are all grey or bald. Except the women who are all foxy ladies.:biggrin:
I must be missing some replies ET cos the first showing on my computer is nothing like that. And then to mix two of your threads, is the exiting bit in the middle like the yummy filling of a bourbon biscuit?
I am just a scruffy urchin not posh , no posh gear, no snobbery from me ..... biased yeah But then I have owned a few bikes and although reliable jap bikes ... my ruddy Monsters have a soul. I probably if there was a steriotype of a Ducati owner am right down the other end of the spectrum Also I am poor. Do I care ... not really
I try my best not to be judgemental and to pigeon hole people based on anything they may be, do, wear, or ride. However, I really struggle with that principal when it comes to Harley Davidson? To me bikes are fun as they are engaging to ride, provide most of us with more speed that we need and really, really entertain in the corners. IMHO None of these apply to Harley's whose owners appear to be adopting a lifestyle choice involving tassles, leather and ephemera without purpose? Big, slow, cumbersome and over engineered which appears the polar opposite of Ducati's approach to design? Just a thought?
That's a fail then! Personally like a couple of other people have said I don't care what other people think. I love my bike and everything about owing it. Hell, even cleaning it is a pleasure. I also don't care what other people ride, the fact that they do ride is to me sufficient. My local Ducati dealer is also a Harley dealer. Makes sense mechanic wise I suppose, they are both V (or L) twins after all. Live and let live and be glad there are other bikes out there. The motor bike community would be one hell of a lot smaller if there were only Ducati's available!
I take as I find ... If I like something I like something if I like someone I like them reguardless of who they are , how much they have or have not. However having being married to an American HD owner.... its the biggest load of Toss ever sorry. The people I met where shallow , dull and if you think a custom bike is some "live to ride ride to live" toot on a bike well. I could not fall in love with that way of life or the bikes. I still wince at the sound of one!
The HD thing is surely all about having a feel good factor at low speed. These days (in fact as long as I can remember) you don't get much of a feel good factor on a Duke at low speed. They pretty much have to be ridden illegally to feel comfortable. HDs don't go very well, or stop or turn. But if you're not in a hurry and want to just enjoy a ride, I can see that they have their good points. There is something viscerally agricultural about them. That's why the V-Rod is a failure. It turns its back on what Harleys do best and pretends it is something that a Harley never will be. Having said that, the Harley tasselled leather chaps ethos is just hideous. Even if I owned a Harley, I suspect that I would avoid other owners like the plague.
Had a running dispute with two old duffers on my local forum after they posted up the list of recalls for the "£16k Panigale" "Chortle, yet another problematic unreliable Ducati!" I retorted that my much older SS had never spent Bitch-time aboard a recovery vehicle unlike his "Teutonic masterpiece" BMW GS - and dually posted pics from my mates facebook to prove it? :biggrin: - also the list of recalls for the also-first-generation BMW S1000R? OWNED.:wink:
Brace yerselves... I thought Ducati owners were a bunch of self-obsessed tossers for a long time. Til I bought one, that is. Now I think only about half of them are self-obsessed tossers:wink:
