ie it’s first service which was done at 450 miles last year. If it were mine I’d ignore the light and get it serviced by a Ducati dealerat the next one due. If that were to be several years in the future due to only doing a few thousand miles a year I’d probably do an oil change on an annual basis.
With respect, some mad responses on here. It’s a 2017 1299. These bikes have requirements, it needs a service every year, regardless. When you go and look at a performance bike to purchase, or car, and the guy hasn’t bothered servicing it each year, you know he’s skimped on it. More than likely it’s got two different brands of tyres on it and if you look hard enough you’ll find rust. Take it to Ducati, it’s literally not worth losing out on the resale value, that stamp can be worth 4 figures on a px, easily. Especially a bike of this mileage and year, it’s got bags of monetary potential if you don’t hammer the miles on it. If not, chop it in and get something that you can literally just stick fuel in and low side for the crack, like a Fireblade. Apologies.
The chap I bought it from, kept it in pristine condition, he probably didn't want to spunk 300 squid on a bike he'd only done a 100 miles on, probably like most sane people, not sure why someone would put odd tyres on a bike that has only travelled 550 miles, but then again takes all sorts, thought ducati were better build quality now, so hopefully it's not rusty. Thanks for your input.
i have a low mileage 1299 as well, with i think less than 200 km since last years service.. but it will go in for a dealer service as part of the service is to check the fault codes, and also and updates. also if your not using the bike that much it means that any moisture that is being absorbed into the oil daily is not burnt off ( via a heat cycle) so this is also a good reason to change the oil.
I agree, was undecided whether to service myself or dealer. Probably will get a dealer service to keep the book up to date, just would like to find a more reasonably priced place than riders, my mate had a bad experience there.
Oil services and the 7500 service I do myself. £50's worth for 300v and a new filter plus what ever else needs attention whilst I have the fairing off. Was on 2500 miles when I got it, its now done just over 15k miles and the only time someone else has spannered it was its 15k mile desmo service. Its been abused carefully around many Euro tracks and its been extremely reliable. Didn't even need valves adjusting!
I fear we differ in opinions on depreciation here. I’ve just clocked up 10k on my 66 plate 1299S - it’s been to the Nurburgring, Le Mans, toured Scotland and Wales and generally used whenever I wanted, without worrying about the odometer reading. Is this hammering the miles on? It’s been serviced and got exactly what it wanted, when it wanted it. It’s currently about half way through it’s fourth set of (matched) tyres - always swapped as a pair. I’m guessing it’s lost about £8k in this time - £220 per month. If I’ve done say 3,000 miles in this spell it may be have been worth a thousand more perhaps? That’s an extra £30 per month for over triple the mileage. I know it’s going to loss cash like a bad gambler in Vegas but I accept that. If wanted to not lose anything I’d not have bought it - but I did and am more than happy with my choice. I see no logic in buying a standard mass produced bike (eg owt that’s unlikely to appreciate in value) and being scared of using it for fear of losing cash. If you don’t want to loss too much cash buy something you can just stick the fuel in - like, say, a second hand fire blade... However, on the other hand, it’s to each their own. Your money, your choice!
Yeah I get you on that, think I've worded my example wrong, believe me I'm not for just buying a bike and not using it I was just stating a what if example say for instance if you didn't use it alot. Especially a bike that's not limited run. But high mileage or not, that stamp in the service book matters to its value.
Riders Bridgewater collected my bike from Cornwall FOC and 1st service was £225 iirc and returned it as well FOC, as do GT's in Plymouth
