The Multi is a great bike, fast, useful and easy to ride too. Boring it isn't, but then thats just different opinions. I like the fact of how high you sit on it and can see and survey the world in front of you. Something you can't do on an SBK as well as the Multi. Also the wide bars help you too when making steady progress. I want to like the new Monster but as I haven't ridden it yet, so I'm undecided. Looks wise its a good replacement for those wanting to swap to the this new 1. My only gripe with the Multi is I'm slightly too short (5ft.9) for it, so needs to be 100% with which foot to put down (I know that there are plenty of seat options etc). However the Monster offered that little bit of extra confidence when you needed 2 feet and want to be 'surefooted' and I like a lot the 1198 engines even though they're 'water-cooled' nowadays. The M1200S had a lot of plastic on it as standard and would need to be 'Carbon' breathed upon to improve it and of course needs a Full Termi system too. Having an M1100s & S2R 1000 as 'air-cooled' options, means I need not worry about riding the Multi from time to time. Other options are an S4R 996/998 engines to still get the naked SBK fix. I'm prepared to try the new M1200S to see how it rides and if its worth swapping the Multi for, but having upgraded the suspension ECU for the Ohlins option from FTR it'll need to be a huge difference for the better to make me swap them. The ECU Upgrade has improved the Multi no end and transformed it into a different bike for the better.
Dementor, if you also had a S4Rs I suppose you, like me, were eagerly waiting to put your hands on a water cooled Monster after all the years Ducati kept us waiting. I'm glad you liked it though I have to say I wasn't impressed. Don't get me wrong, the bike looks gorgeous, sounds wicked and has the two things you want when riding in this country's God-forsaken weather: power mapping and ABS. But... I miss the mad brutality of the S4Rs. The kick in your groins when you squeezed the throttle, the mad engine braking, the sense it could kill you any moment you lower your guard. Compared to that the 1200S felt tame and too well behaved... so I'm sticking to my SF for the time being
