I have just had another set of belts and valves done for my 96,000km/60,000 miles service and my book is all stamped up but that's used the last space in the book; I've run out of service pages! Does this mean the bike can't be serviced any more? Actually, I have discovered something interesting. When the 96,000km service reminder is cleared from the instrument display, it leaves an empty page in the cycle so at start-up the circular display is blank. The mode status appears at the first press as normal and everything is still there but paging through the display finds a blank page between Trip Time and Mode.
You now have to return the motorcycle to Ducati for recycling. Seriously, well done for getting such great use out of your Multi. It would be interesting to hear what work you've had to have done outside servicing; clutch, bearings, etc. My 2010 is hardly run in at just 24k miles so glad that I can keep it for a few more years of good service
Amazing!!! And others struggled to do 6,000 miles! Show me, I want to see what a 60,000 miler looks like
Here's a few pictures taken at work this morning. You're right Kirky, yours is barely run in and they just keep getting better and better. I don't seem to post often so I'll go over my bike briefly again. She's a 2010 1200S Sport with the Touring package on top. Extra carbon because I like it and lots of small mods that help me tour. During 62,000 miles the unscheduled maintenance has been a head gasket (1 year, 15,000 miles) and steering head bearings (45,000 miles replaced by me). Other than that she's on her 3rd chain (currently an RK which has done 25,000 miles so far) and second set of sprockets, (changed at 15,000 miles with the original chain). That's it. The rest of the work is in tweaks and upgrades. I have the Ohlins Mechatronics SCU which makes the original suspension into a semi-active system (best £250 upgrade ever) and I am on my 7th set of Michelin Pilot Road 3/4 tyres though I must say I prefer the feel of the -3 front to the current -4. The screen is an MRA Touring screen modified to take an MRA X-wing on top which keeps the noise uiet enough to ride without earplugs (which I hate). I have worn out a Mivv Suono (twice) and have been back on the original exhaust again for the last two years. She cleans up well and the only wear and tear on the finish I notice is where my right boot has worn through the paint on the clutch casing. I use Muc-Off cleaning products and polishes and their Dry Chain Lube is just wonderful. A can goes with me on tour in a small maintenance case I mount just inboard of the left pannier where the exhaust isn't. When my wife and I are touring the stylish Ducati panniers are used for up to a week and for longer trips a pair of Givi E42 cases fit onto QD SW Motech rails. With these we've been away for 3 week tours. We both work but all our holidays are spent touring on our Multi. Countries visited include France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and of course Italy including Sicily and Sardinia. This year has included a German and Italian tour so far and our large run will be a loop round Austria, Slovenia, Hungary and Czech Republic taking in Two MotoGP rounds in August. With another Italian trip to Misano in September we will be past 70,000 miles by year's end. Best bike in the world I reckon. Sorry for the essay!
I use the Shell Advance Ultra 4T 15-50 mainly because Ducati recommend it with a decal on the clutch cover. Only genuine Ducati filters too.
Good effort - at the rate I'm going I may hit 6k miles when my pp gets to 6 years old so should get to your level by 2073! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Very heartening to hear of your good experience - your use of the machine puts me to shame. After six years of my 2010 bike, we've only just managed to get away for a decent week-long tour on the Multi (too much stuff getting in the way of fun, as my 55k mile ST4s sits in a corner of the garage, sniggering at the youngsters). We did a complete loop of the Outer Hebrides - Oban to Barra then up the islands, returning from Stornaway to Ullapool and spending a couple of days exploring Assynt. The bike behaved nearly perfectly on some of the greatest (and a few of the worst) roads I've ever ridden. Nearly? Yeah: even with the uprated Ohlins rear spring and the Ohlins SCU in Sport mode, the back end got a bit wallowy at times. We were running two-up with the BIG panniers stuffed with photographic gear so guess the total load (me+SO+kit) must have been close on 200kg (I'm not the smallest guy in the world, Herself being very svelte). Odd thing though was that running without the panniers felt much better and once the pace got serious, even when fully loaded, it felt better - had an epic scratch heading down the A835 from Kylesku and all was well. I wonder if the Ohlins algorithms change their behaviour as the pace ups? Anyone had a similar experience? The other thing of course was the bloody awful panniers: leak like sieves, are flimsy and difficult to close and the add-on bodge of the additional catches makes closing them like wrestling a Crack-addicted Octopus.
Technomad, that sounds like a trip we should do some day. I think the Mechatronics SCU does tune its responses based on the vigour of the ride, our loading is 150kg of human load plus 36 kg of pannier load plus 15 kg of top box so pretty much the same as you but I can still hustle through Tuscany in Touring. I know that it is quite sensitive to the top box load. Moving weight to the tank gives me quicker handling but gets in the way of the clocks. I tend to keep the tank bag in the top box until I need to move it or I need the extra volume mid-trip. If there was a 110N/mm spring I'd buy one mainly because the headlamps can't be adjusted low enough for night riding with the load in the top box.
Mechatronic does work based on throttle position, revs etc... The harder you push, the better it performs. Stiffens right up and pushes those tyres into the road. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Nice one Robin.....60,000 miles!! .......this thread deserves a bump! Multistrada 1200 Continental Power Touring - 5 Days, 1956 Miles: Motorcycle Info Pages - Misc MTS1200 Articles > 5 Days, 1956 Miles .
