My First Ducati

Hi all just joined up as I’ve bought my first Ducati
It’s a 2011 1198 , I’ve wanted a Ducati since I was 10 years old when my old man bought a 916. Been looking at 1098’s but I just couldn’t say not to this bike when I saw the advert for it
Maybe the seller is a memeber here I’m not sure?

A little about me
I’m based up in County Durham and run a small bike workshop called KRG Motorcycles and I’m one of the biggest ktech suspension dealers in the north east. Been going 4 year now and still going strong.

I’ve been riding bikes since I was 6 years old and had a whole host of bikes over the years (Mainly Jap) and now I race a BMW S1000rr in the north east club championship and some No limits rounds and Scottish superbikes.

I’m relatively new to Ducati though apart from a few belt changes and valve checks I’ve not done much with them so I’m hopeful I can tap into the wealth of knowledge that’s here,

I’ll get some better pics tomorrow and I’ve added one of my race bike on there for good measure

Kyle

 

you want a pic of my actual bin?

 

Had my first proper ride out on it today and wow, I’m well impressed. I’m so so pleased I bought it.
The power comes in at around 5k revs and it takes off, feels like a really big 2 stroke

couple of slight issues, the front brake is very snatchy so I’ll be putting some decent pads in shortly and also the clutch has abit of a snatch to it aswell , apart from that it’s just a fantastic bike.
I need to sort out the suspension and it had me out the seat a couple of times but I’m planning on fitting the Ktech SSRK valve kit with springs to the front forks anyway then I can start setting up valves that I know

I also need an exhaust valve eliminator as it’s throwing up them EML so if anyone can point me to somewhere who sell then I’ll appreciate it

 

Thank you good to know there is positive feedback Knocking about

 

I’ve not noticed it myself but I took my son out in the back today and that was his first comment that his foot kept slipping off the peg