I never knew or met any in my younger days, ever, anywhere, at any time, at any point, on any road,bike meet or club, nil nada zilch, honest. They were all sat in the garage repairing their bikes whilst I was out on my Yamasuzaki !! Then I got one, and I never went out cos I was then like them. Nah only joking, they tended to be middle aged guys who seemed/claimed/might have known a thing or two about bikes and been on them for a few years. Stuart
All the Ducati owners I have met up to now have been sound, I enjoy the company of owners that have older bikes as in general they tend to be the tinkerers. My bikes 21 years old now, I've had it 10 years and its never let me down, on long trips with mates one bmw owner has had to be recovered twice and a Yamaha owner once, both a lot newer bikes than mine yet they still take the piss out of Ducati reliability.