Hi all, I had a Monster 600 in the late 90s and it was a great little bike, It was a metallic blue, stage 2 tuned (air box, carbs, jets and carbon pipes). I sold it in the search for more power to keep up with the group of sports and supermoto riders I was riding with at the time. I have always headed to the Ducati stand at the MCN London bike show and had a look at the latest offerings from the Diavels to the Panigales and wondered what a newer Ducati was like. Anyway, fast forward 23 years and I’m about to buy another Monster; an early 1200S. I’ve never ridden one and actually set out to buy an 821 locally which fell through. I’m currently running an Aprilia Shiver 750 which is great and I love the torque of V or L twins, but once again I was seeking a few more hp from the 821 - (17 to be precise). So, as is always the way, the gods intervened and a bigger, better bike came along that I couldn’t refuse. I hear this one has a tad more oomph which I am very much looking forward to discovering! So, Hopefully, in a week’s time I will be the proud owner of a mint 1200S to to roll around the Surrey Hills and down to the coast on. I will be on here asking lots of questions and will post some pics (with bins) when it arrives. Cheers all.
Welcome to the forum,there's so much motorcycle / other knowledge on here it's unreal,just shoot away with the questions as & when you need too fella.
It did take a while... I got there via a few Italian bikes; the most notable being a Guzzi 850 T3 that I bought as a wreck in the 80s, cobbled together to go to Europe and since then it has spent almost 40 years in pieces. I started to restore it in the first lockdown, then I saw sense and went and bought a new (to me) Ducati instead!
