If anyone buys a Special or V4 and needs it running in over a weekend, then let me know and i will volunteer that arduous task. You just pay for the fuel. We seem to live in a world these days where everyone wants everything now, not tomorrow. Patience seems to have gone forever.
Nice little touch yesterday, in one of the various boxes that got delivered with the Speciale was a tenth (ish) scale 3D printed V4 engine mounted on a plinth with the bike’s limited edition number. Conversation piece for your desk if nothing else. Andy
Its about spreading the love and making someone else life easier at my expense rather than a narrow minded political ideology.
A believe a number of complaints have been made to Ducati by UK dealers as to how these are for sale again so quickly and at exorbitant prices when they cannot get their own orders til later in the year. Whoever supplied them may be about to find Ducati are going to come knocking on the door very soon.
Most, if not all Ducati UK dealers have apparently complained to Bologna. As @Android853sp Andy said earlier these bikes have come from a German dealership. Apparently/allegedly they ordered for stock but didn’t have as much interest as they thought they would so they approached other likely dealers. The Bike Specialists have taken a punt on selling them through their network.
#114, my understanding is that the 2 in the Bike Specialist came from a dealer in Germany. Most of the Superleggeras currently on sale from UK eBay traders are not UK bikes, same for the 1299FEs. Not sure what Ducati can do if European dealers cannot sell their allocation locally but are offered cash to take them of their hands by speculators feeding a buoyant UK market. Andy
Have they done anything wrong then? I’m not defending them, of course, but I’d be interested to know if they’ve actually done anything wrong. In other news, my dealer has today confirmed to me that the Speciale I ordered and paid a deposit on (the 3rd Speciale ordered at the dealership) before my accident is not due until October, not May, meaning it cannot be ridden this year and will effectively be a ‘year old’ bike before it’s even sat on. That’s not ace news, is it?
