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Fun with MF images 2024

PeterA

PeterA

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lookbook said:
... i can't wait to see which bike you ride when you have expanded your new hobby with a couple of kids!!!
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Ahhh provenance and timelines...our children are all grown up now and independent(ish) ...

The 996 SPS (Pista) was manufactured in 1998 for British market only. My model was manufactured in 1999 - one of three sold in Australia out of a total of 150 world wide. Most of these bikes have long since been 'totalled'....mine was sold to a collector for 4X the original value some 15 years later as it was in pristine condition and included unused Factory Racing stickers in box with non race factory exhaust it was as good as new with less than 2000 miles on the clock mufflers etc ...My wiffy always took a jaundiced view of track days and was aghast at me taking my children for rides as pillions on a (relatively ) comfortable Motto Guzzi 1000Sport - years before I purchased and many more before I sold the Ducati.

A motorbike for me these days is (like my collected photographs ) - a stocktake of happy and some not-so-happy memories and an exercise in nostalgia.

PS teh modern bikes with all their ABS and computer chipped lean angle control and wheelie control and this and that safety features are more like playing a video game - @drevil 's 1199 Panigale is probably the last of the truly beastly Ducatis to ride in anger if one is so inclined...these days everything is being safetied into boringness - which is probably a good thing for 99% of riders.

Aaaaanyway back to fun with MF pichas.

Cheers
Pete
 
drevil

drevil

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PeterA said:
Ahhh provenance and timelines...our children are all grown up now and independent(ish) ...

The 996 SPS (Pista) was manufactured in 1998 for British market only. My model was manufactured in 1999 - one of three sold in Australia out of a total of 150 world wide. Most of these bikes have long since been 'totalled'....mine was sold to a collector for 4X the original value some 15 years later as it was in pristine condition and included unused Factory Racing stickers in box with non race factory exhaust it was as good as new with less than 2000 miles on the clock mufflers etc ...My wiffy always took a jaundiced view of track days and was aghast at me taking my children for rides as pillions on a (relatively ) comfortable Motto Guzzi 1000Sport - years before I purchased and many more before I sold the Ducati.

A motorbike for me these days is (like my collected photographs ) - a stocktake of happy and some not-so-happy memories and an exercise in nostalgia.

PS teh modern bikes with all their ABS and computer chipped lean angle control and wheelie control and this and that safety features are more like playing a video game - @drevil 's 1199 Panigale is probably the last of the truly beastly Ducatis to ride in anger if one is so inclined...these days everything is being safetied into boringness - which is probably a good thing for 99% of riders.

Aaaaanyway back to fun with MF pichas.

Cheers
Pete
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also the 1199 has TC and ABS, the superleggera even got wheelie control and launch control if i am not mistaken.

just by the look i would love to get my hands on a 1299 superleggera, the paint job is amazing and this wsbk exhaust is a dream
 
PeterA

PeterA

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drevil said:
also the 1199 has TC and ABS, the superleggera even got wheelie control and launch control if i am not mistaken.

just by the look i would love to get my hands on a 1299 superleggera, the paint job is amazing and this wsbk exhaust is a dream
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now you are talking exotica! and to think you can pick one up for less than a Phase One thingy and a couple fo Rodenstocks...what a bargain!!

yeah the BMW has all that plus...wait for it.....rear power slide control....I can go in late on the brakes lean over ridiculously and hit the throttle whilst on teh rear brakes and slide around as if I am on slicks...the rev/brake/lean angle and wheel rotational calculations all keeping things under control...well that is the theory a theory I am not willing to test on a track anymore...
 
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