848 Evo Corse SE - 2012 to 2014 Panigale 899 - 2014 to 2016 Scrambler Classic - 2015 to 2018 Panigale 959 - 2016 to 2019 Scrambler 1100 Sport - 2018 to present Diavel 1260S - 2019 to 2020 Panigale V2 - 2020 to present
Late to Ducati party after a life of Jap stuff and the odd Triumph. Always wanted one, never managed to get one. Pani V4S sold 748r. Pani r. 996 BIP. The one that got away? 916 SPS in 90s. Oh well!
900ss Monster S4 (no photo) senna with red wheels. Don’t know how that got there! Monster S4rs Multistrada And back to a 1997 900ss.
Yeah, but @baylissboy really wanted it and it went a long way to the Pani R. So no regrets. I know he's looking after it, even if he insists on removing some of my trick bits,
Wow - An old sf is still on my list of bikes to own....and thats probably the best one ive ever seen.
Hyper No1 - Bought from a lad down in Dorset who was i quote allergic to money. Spent 5k on it i bought it for 7.8k - the car was full with the seats down of all the oem stuff. Never planned on buying a ducati but at the time i was hankering for another TDR250 (this was 8 years ago ish). My mate sent me a pic of this which had me hooked. Swapped it a year later with the RSV4 i still own. The reason: it sounded like the engine was just about to let go...all the time...just couldnt get my head round it... A few years later i thought i needed to revisit the hyper and got another one.... Having accepted the sound they make, spent a happy year or so on it but wanted a naked muscle bike (used to own an old slab sided GSXR7-11) and wanted some more of that goodness. Owned a gen 1 z1000 before this one and wanted another one, so, sold to get a z1000gen4 which i still own. Lackng a supermoto based bike i bought my mates ktm525 and set about converting it....wanted another hyper and a 3 month operation of getting round the other half ended in this, which i still own and have no plans to sell...unless of course my job goes south...
I always liked the red framed titanium ones. But the black frame, black wheels, black bodywork really worked. That's why my local dealer bought 2 in but they just sat there for ages. They were just too expensive. After it sitting there in the dealers for 2 years, after buying it he offered to buy it back off me as he could sell them into Germany for a profit. I was in the phase of keeping it for life at this point and declined. I had no inclination at the time, it was a couple of years later that @baylissboy kept on asking about it (I may have posted a pic or 2 ) and was an absolute gent all the way through and a forum member. I wasn't using it and he was the one person that actially liked it more than I did. I'm glad he got it, even if he wouldn't swap his Foggy for ir at the time.
The ones I can recall... 2004 - 748E, yellow. Stolen. Can’t find a pic 2004 - 2009 - 748BP converted to mono, black with white number boards. Crashed it in Ally Pally when my inside foot slipped off the peg when tipping in, so I converted it to track use. Sold. During this period I also owned a Bandit 600, a Kwak Z750 (only bike I’ve ever bought new) and an R6. 2006 - 996S. Absolutely loved it as the engine was immense. Stolen after only a month, seemingly by a magician as I came out one morning to find the bike gone but the Almax chain which had been looped around a frame spar and secured to a ground anchor was still locked and intact. The only explanation is that they cut the frame spar and bent it back to release the chain. 2006 - 2012 - 748R, late model, full Ohlins. Crashed it only a few weeks after buying it, again in Ally Pally when, ironically, I was test riding the rearsets with knurled footpegs which I’d bought after crashing the 748 BP due to its slippery pegs. Sold in 2012 due to financial problems (gutted). 2012 - 2015 3 Ducati-less years in the wilderness where my 2 wheeled needs were met by a 2006 Honda Hornet, which was actually a great bike. 2015 - 848, red. Sold. 2015 - 2016 - 900ss, which I bought partly modified then modified further into a bobber. Incredible fun as I removed as much excess weight as I could (within reason) and being perched in mid-air over the back wheel like that felt very naughty. Currently negotiating to buy it back from the guy I sold it to. 2015 - present - Monster S4, “Senna” grey with red wheels which has been heavily modified over the course of 5 years to become “Carla” (I basically wanted a Streetfighter but couldn’t afford it at the time so I built one instead). I also have a carbon tank and seat unit (not fitted in that pic) and carbon wheels, which along with the fact that most of the subframe and a significant part of the exhaust system have been removed mean the bike is featherweight and very agile. 2018 - 848 Streetfighter, red. After wanting one for ages I bought one blind and absolutely hated it. Apart from the fact that I crashed it and broke my left tibia on the horrendous 100m journey home in -1 degree sleet while not wearing winter gear and had to keep my visor open due to not realising the pinlock insert wasn’t fitted, the riding position was awful. Sold after 6 weeks 2018 - 2020 - Monster 796. Great bike and I was going to replace it with a M1100S but then the S4R came up. Sold. 2020 - present - Monster S4R, bought from our very own @dukesox .Presently being wrapped but stuck in their workshop as lockdown was announced the day after they started work. Absolutely love it, especially the engine. Definitely a keeper.
1997 916 carbon Dymags and loads of other carbon bits....and a Troy Corsa lid, my mate at the time had an RC45 that he spent nearly 30k on (1996) and he still couldn’t get passed A while away from Ducati’s until 2012 and my 1st Multi after many years on sportbikes, another mate still has her and she’s going well Panigale R Gen 2 bought last year, more Dymag carbon wheels, now in numerous pieces in my garage! 1260S sat in the same garage for the last 7 weeks
