Up norff and ducati

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so as some may know i am actively searching for the holy grail of 748s. is it just me or are most dukes and people knowledgeable about them based in and around yorks / derbyshire etc

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does birmingham count as the norff (i was born there for my sins)

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based on my daily perusals the holy grail is anything thats straight and not been blinged to resemble a jap bike

an r or an sps would be nice but budget wise im restricted to a bip or e

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dibblecorse said:

Piece of advice I would give you, is price spread between 748, 916 and 996 is minimal, buy the best of whichever of those you can find in budget as from an insurance and maintenance cost perspective the differences are virtually non existant, the reason I suggest this is that unless you are looking at spcifically an R or SPS then a straight bip in any of the above flavours would be a great buy.

i know that opinion is divided and there is a strong bias towards the homologation bikes in terms of the richness of the experience but in fairness the last bike i rode was an r6 about 8 years back before which i had a cagiva mito evolution! my ducati palate isnt refined enough yet!

interestingly, the spread between a decent E and SPS today is about 1k. much narrower than i thought it would be but i think the gap between buyers and sellers expectations widens as you move beyond the boggo models into the homologation bikes

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dibblecorse said:

Indeed there is a bias towards the homologation models but I do not beleive they represent great value from a cost to experience perspective, I say this as someone that has put over 50k on his own 996 Bip and have never felt, either on road or track that it was a 'lesser experience' to such an extent that I wished I had an R etc ...

Buy any of them and you'll love it ..... as I do my 996

good point well made... justifies my insistence on buying the best in budget! as/when time/budget allows i can play around but for now i want to ease my point of entry with something that requires minimal outlay and has been fettled so i can enjoy it during the few days of sunshine we get each year