A picture a day....biker banter (Vol 4)

[patchb]

One from this mornings blast around the purbeck hills.

I went to look at a white 2009 Ducati Hypermotard 1100, lovely bike 5000 miles, just had belts etc. done not a mark on it, I was genuinely interested in buying it but the dealer said he was not allowing anyone to test ride it without making a deal on it first.
That immediately put me off and I won't be buying anything from there, that is not how a dealer should try to sell a bike.

[moto_traxport]

New bike (to me)! Another attempt at replacing the 1998 R1 which is getting a bit long in the tooth.

[mckeann]

moto_traxport said:

New bike (to me)! Another attempt at replacing the 1998 R1 which is getting a bit long in the tooth.

Ooooohhhhhhh. 05/06????

[redback911]

Love the new bike MT. Looks wicked. How's the hand healing up?

[moto_traxport]

mckeann said:

moto_traxport said:

New bike (to me)! Another attempt at replacing the 1998 R1 which is getting a bit long in the tooth.

Ooooohhhhhhh. 05/06????

07/08 model. Same thing really but 4 valve cyl head rather than 5 valve, motorised inlet trumpets and 6 piston brake calipers. Hopefully night & day re my 98 bike!

Hopefully will squeeze it on a dyno sometime this week and if all okay it gets shipped out to Catalunya next weekend. Any issues and the old one goes out and sort this over winter.

[moto_traxport]

redback911 said:

Love the new bike MT. Looks wicked. How's the hand healing up?

Cheers Dan.

Thumb mostly healed up but still got a small shard of porceline inside - hopefully it will work its way to the surface eventually.

[hebegb]

moto_traxport said:

redback911 said:

Love the new bike MT. Looks wicked. How's the hand healing up?

Cheers Dan.

Thumb mostly healed up but still got a small shard of porceline inside - hopefully it will work its way to the surface eventually.

Ditto Jon , looks ace !
Won'tbe the same without the ( stonking !) old girl around .....
Dan - Oulton weds ???

[moto_traxport]

hebegb said:

Ditto Jon , looks ace !
Won'tbe the same without the ( stonking !) old girl around .....

We'll see. The 98 R1 has seen a CBR600, CBR929, CBR1000RR5 and GSXR1000K8 all arrive as track replacements and seen them all go.

Fingers crossed this new thing is the daddy!

[mckeann]

Good good. Hope it's the weapon you are hoping for

[(MrB)]

54 miles added to the SP2 today

[moanthebairns]

Yoda400 said:

It's back
With shiny painted wheels and a new radiator. Just needs a good strip down and clean, and new set of fairing bolts

Has the windscreen still got a zillion track stickers

[(MrB)]

Yoda400 said:

It's back
With shiny painted wheels and a new radiator. Just needs a good strip down and clean, and new set of fairing bolts

Love those

[redback911]

hebegb said:

moto_traxport said:

redback911 said:

Love the new bike MT. Looks wicked. How's the hand healing up?

Cheers Dan.

Thumb mostly healed up but still got a small shard of porceline inside - hopefully it will work its way to the surface eventually.

Ditto Jon , looks ace !
Won'tbe the same without the ( stonking !) old girl around .....
Dan - Oulton weds ???

Teaching on Weds... :-( Maybe I can just give them a couple of YouTube videos to watch, not like anyone listens.

[Yoda400]

moanthebairns said:

Has the windscreen still got a zillion track stickers

No!
Well, maybe Too many happy memories stuck to that windscreen. I have a clear one to fit sometime.




That freaked me out for a minute though, I was thinking "He's never seen my bike, how does he know?" Then I remembered Facebook

[scunnylad]

moto_traxport said:

New bike (to me)! Another attempt at replacing the 1998 R1 which is getting a bit long in the tooth.

Very nice

[Tall_Paul]

Another 100-ish miles on the Tuono today, managed to open the throttle more than 20% this time

[Dodd90]

spareparts said:

Dodd90 said:

This time last year......... Who can guess the track?

Rossi's ranch or Colin's BootCamp?

Rosie's ranch mate! Bang on

[Dodd90]

Took the GoPro out for a play earlier

[abw280]

Modern bikes are rubbish.......

[Gunk]

abw280 said:

Modern bikes are rubbish.......

That's a nice pair!