Good move. Don't worry about the mileage if it's been well serviced and looked after. My 999 has about 33k kms on it now - that must be about 20'000 miles. In perfect running order. Previous 851 and 916 both had 50'000 kms when I sold them. No problems there either.
Welcome to the 999 owners club Strongly recommend you get the suspension set up for you as it will complete your riding experience on this great bike. I use John Sanderson in Morley ALPHA SUSPENSION SET-UP - About me It's £25 well spent and takes about an hour to do.
Saturday is looking like it may be good. Enjoy. http://ducatiforum.co.uk/f29/saturday-27th-october-2012-yorkshire-crew-5721/
Welcome. I love yellow Ducati And the white ones are nice as well The black look great. But the red ones are absolutely gorgeous, and so much faster !!! Steve
At least they don't suicidally splatter themselves on it when it's stood still. But splatter is directly proportional to bike speed.
At least they don't suicidally splatter themselves on it when it's stood still. Bug splatter is directly proportional to bike speed.
Thanks guys/girls, I will definitely get the suspension set up. You can't go wrong for that sort of money. Beats spending hours at home trying to only find you've made things worst lol
Enjoy, 999 is a classic in my oppinion but then I might say that as I have owned one for over 8 years
I sold a 08 gsxr 1000 Moto GP replica and after paying some of my wedding off brought a 749 in red wiv 16000 miles on the clock.....did I regret it, was I mad, for the first week yes I was but every time I go for a ride or pop down to clean and look at her I made the right decision. As long as the bike being looked after and used and you got receipts you should have no issues. With any bike over a certain mileage you take risks but wiv a duc you think after reading what journalists say o.m.g I've made a mistake....it's going to break. Check everything and haggle and to be honest if anyone is going t sell a duc they know what they r on about as you get very personnel about the bike, so what if the mileage is high, if its been looked after then go for it...the other day I was going to swap mine for a rsv1000 in better nick than mine but after thinking about it the money I would have to spend on the RSVP I could spend on making the the duc a bit more personal. Enjoy the 999 and make use of the forum it's been one best I've even on.
After having a good tinker with the bike and a little ride I have found a few problems. The front subframe, where the left mirror bolts on to has snapped and been repaired with a zip tie so bike shop has ordered on from Ducati. The other problem is abit worrying, when sitting in traffic sometimes the engine comes on but goes out again when moving. Also after I cleaned it the engine came on but after a quick rev it went out again. When the dash first starts up and says 999 is it right to have EN in the bottem of the screen?
