Sell it and buy a 900, or get fun and stick a 1000ds or a hyper 1100 motor in it. Anything else is a personal choice on throwing money away. Who in their right mind would modify a bike!
you missed this one! It aint all about resale i spent about 4 times my bikes value to get it (nearly) how i want it! :Finger:
I'm really just repeating what others have said already, but the best and cheapest option is to just sell it and buy a 900. I speak from hard won experience as someone who over the years has repeatedly thrown good money after bad trying to do what you're suggesting. It really is much better to just buy the bigger engined bike when the time comes and you're craving more power. Tuning a small engine will never give you the same gains as upping the CCs. As the yanks say "there's no replacement for displacement". Also consider. 1. You'll have to declare all the mods to your insurance company and this could make your bike difficult or more expensive to quote for. If you don't declare the mods and you have an accident or it gets nicked the insurance company may refuse to pay out. Potentially you're also riding without insurance if you're in breach of your policy by failing to declare mods. 2. You're very unlikely to get the money back you've spent on mods when you come to sell the bike and some of the mods you're thinking about aren't the kind of thing you can remove and sell separately to recoup some of your outlay. 3. I've never had a M900 but I've got a 900ss which shares the same engine, and I think it's an awesome motor. It's not got much top end power but it has a heck of a lot of wallop (torque) in the lower rev range, which is where you'll probably be most of the time, unless you're racing it. This instant reaction to the throttle with a big dose of torque makes the bike feel very quick in real world riding situations. By way of comparison, I have a Monster S4 (which uses the engine from a 916) and although it has a lot more top end power (20 BHP or so), the 900 engine packs a very similar punch low down because the torque values are pretty similar and peak at around the same part of the rev range. I've had lots of Ducatis - umpteen 748s and a 748R, a 996s, an 848, the 900ss and the S4 - and I think the 900 engine is up there with the best of the bunch. 4. Every time you or someone else works on the bike there's a risk of something going wrong or it needing further work to either compensate for the work you've had done or to take advantage of that work. 5. 600s tend to go for £1500 - £2000 and I've seen 900s start at around £2000, so the money you were going to spend on mods could just as easily be spent on making up the shortfall between the price of your 600 and a 900. In summary, you'll chuck money at the 600 only to make a bike which is possibly a bit of a ballache to insure, which won't have the power or torque of a 900, which won't be worth any more than a standard 600 and which may end up being in and out of the workshop all the time. As others have said, make sure the bike is running as it should, all the powertrain components are working slickly and the wheel bearings and brakes aren't binding and therefore sapping what power you do have. Once you've done all that, stick a smaller front sprocket on it, enjoy the bike until you've outgrown it, then sell it and buy a 900
