Not a review a such as I cant be arsed to spout all night but I just thought I'd do a quick write up about my first real run out since I picked the bike up on Friday. Well after the disappointment of yesterday I managed to get out for an hour this evening after having had Daisy on charge all day :smile: I started a little apprehensively trying to keep it within the "running in" regime that Ducati recommend. And God it's difficult when your first reaction is that you want to ring its neck and have some fun :biggrin: The only issue I had over the 50 or so miles I did, was that because of the more focused riding position over the R1 (and Blade, Gixer etc I've had in recent years) was that I was putting more weight on my wrists. However by the end of the run I seemed to have worked out how to position my arms so that it didn't hurt too much. I guess (hope) it'll just be a short matter of time that I'll have it sorted and it feels second nature riding her. Funnily enough, though the seat feels hard, it is reasonably comfortable and I didn't have the onset of a numb bum at all. I used to have a ZX636R a few years ago and I couldn't do more than 50 miles on that as it was very harsh and felt like I was sat on a plank! I did manage to throw her into some corners on the Woodhead Pass quite briskly and I now understand what people mean when they say it's like riding on rails. Excellent stuff Can't wait to be able to do it a little quicker :tongue: The quick shifter is an excellent piece of kit and saves your left hand on 40% of all gear changes. Some day all bikes wil be built this way.:smile: When I got back I had to reset the clocks and switch the DTC back on as the battery failure yesterday had switched everything off. Bit of a pain, but nothing too troublesome. All in all I would give Daisy and my ride tonight an 8/10. With the 2 points being lost to slightly achey wrists and the fact that I couldn't/didn't take it over 5k revs. But I fully expect to the score to get to 9/9.5 out of 10 very quickly once I get some proper miles under my belt :smile: And despite the frustration yesterday I finally just stood back and looked at her before putting her in the garage. She is a work of art and I'm still grinning from looking at her in the evening sunshine :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
This must be your second real run..... I've read the first real run in the other post of the same name in the Ducati General Discussion thread. It's getting like Dave on sky here. Oh and yes you did mention you'd bought a Ducati.
Well I didn't know if I'd posted in the right section so for good measure I posted it here too. And you didn't respond the first time :wink:
