I saw a Desmo RR on the road today

[YamR1V64motion]

i was walking from a shop back towards the car park where i had parked and i heard this noise approaching, it didnt sound like a car but not a bike i was familiar with either, it certainly sounds nothing like the Honda V4s which i expected it to a bit, but anyway up it came and it looked amazing, well done to the lucky guy who was riding it, does anyone want to lend me £40k? , thought not, right im off to ride my thoroughly bland and underwhelming 600RR

[y2blade]

ive seen a few now...three differant ones at the isle of man TT and one on the A272


they sound great on full chat i can tell you

[Aubrey]

Not seen one yet, but they look amazing! I love the exhausts, pure motorbike porn

[PulsatingStar]

Ive seen one too but its probably the same as the A272 one as it was around that area near Handcross. How many are there?

[Aubrey]

They were limited to 1500. Not sure how many came to the UK though.

[Graham]

Aubrey said:

They were limited to 1500. Not sure how many came to the UK though.

I was astounded when I read they built 1500 of them.. thats one heck of a lot of 40k+ bikes around... even if you do get 3 years servicing thrown in

not sure about bike porn its pure porn....

[Aubrey]

Yes but they may have only sent 50 or 100 to the UK.

[YamR1V64motion]

i really want one , i supose having something like that is a bit catch 22 really though, unless your super rich and money was no object, if you had saved and spent that much money one one you (or i would anyway) probably end up riding it like an old granny for fear of throwing it down the road, im really thinking about getting rid of my bike in favour of a 1098 now though, maybe that will make me want to ride more

[YamR1V64motion]

Aubrey said:

They were limited to 1500. Not sure how many came to the UK though.

my guess would be about 40 or 50 i imagine the Americans would get most of them?

[dibblecorse]

Way more than 50...

As things stand currently JHP have moved over 20, Ducati Glasgow c15, Italia Wotsit in Lincoln c7, P&H have moved a few as have Ducati Leeds and they all still have customers waiting as they are running behind original delivery dates, my mate was due his early May, he got it three weeks ago .....

Great noise

[Aubrey]

dibblecorse said:

Way more than 50...

As things stand currently JHP have moved over 20, Ducati Glasgow c15, Italia Wotsit in Lincoln c7, P&H have moved a few as have Ducati Leeds and they all still have customers waiting as they are running behind original delivery dates, my mate was due his early May, he got it three weeks ago .....

Great noise

I would have imagined maybe 100?

[revolvor]

For 40k wouldnt you rather have one of these http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/firstrides/122_2...
saw one doing demo's at Mallory park a few weeks ago with Phil Read's son at the helm, absolutely brilliant engineering.

Edited by revolvor on Wednesday 23 July 23:02

[Aubrey]

PulsatingStar said:

the A272

My favourite road

[Aubrey]

revolvor said:

For 40k wouldnt you rather have one of these http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/firstrides/122_2...
saw one doing demo's at Mallory park a few weeks ago with Phil Read's so at the helm, absolutely brilliant engineering.

Looks stunning, certainly turn some heads with that beast!

[camgear]

Seriously though compared to the prices of some cars, it's cheap?

[Rawwr]

My local Ducati dealer informed me of why they weren't going to sell them. Basically, the need to sell at least 3 just to break even. Servicing requires them to invest in £3,000 of tooling and they have to send one of their mechanics to Ducati to be trained-up on them.

[Talksteer]

Graham said:

Aubrey said:

They were limited to 1500. Not sure how many came to the UK though.

I was astounded when I read they built 1500 of them.. thats one heck of a lot of 40k+ bikes around... even if you do get 3 years servicing thrown in

not sure about bike porn its pure porn....

I think this is just the start, if over 100,000 people a year all willing to part with 100K for a car it is not inconceivable that there will be a market for bikes costing up to 40K. There is certainly a lot of people who are willing to spend more than 9k for the optimum in performance. They only issue is that a 1000cc superbike is pretty much as fast as you can go on the roads anyway.

[Battlecat]

Saw one in Camberley, Surrey a couple of weeks back. Guess it could be the same one. Absolutely beautiful. Really want a 848 next.

[revolvor]

Talksteer]quote said:

They only issue is that a 1000cc superbike is pretty much as fast as you can go on the roads anyway.

At the rate they keep putting those blue poled elapsed time camera's up in the East Midlands you should probably edit it to 200cc, in a few years you probably wont dare speed !

[smack]

Aubrey said:

PulsatingStar said:

the A272

My favourite road

Yup, a good one. Was on it last night in fact