I do everything in my power to do all work myself.
Hence, my first Ducati is an air cooled 2V monster. It has it's quirks, but it's really easy to work on. Did my own belts and desmo check last year.
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I do everything in my power to do all work myself.
Hence, my first Ducati is an air cooled 2V monster. It has it's quirks, but it's really easy to work on. Did my own belts and desmo check last year.
^^^This. I put 40,000 trouble-free km on my 2016 Multistrada 1200S and had Ken do my desmo service and it was $800 all-in and like you're saying there's a lot of bodywork to come off and I just let him do that.
As for parts I only ever had to replace normal wear items and they were on par with Japanese bikes price-wise and always easy to get. Couple recalls over that 40,000km and was never without my bike for more than an hour (used time wisely to peruse GPbikes).
Who is this ‘Ken’ everyone is mentioning….
not near you.
also, I called him about installing just the heat shielding on my V4, he told me he wants nothing to do with V4s. Probably not relevant to the OP, but just a general FYI.
sburns
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Don't get a Ducati if you don't know Ken!
He was a factory trained Ducati mechanic at GP Bikes back when they had good service, then opened up his own shop. Before Ken, I was taking my bike to Montreal to Guy Martin. I don't trust anyone else around here, although some guy named Giovanni seems to get good reviews.
That's who did my Desmo & rear tire ... will even drive to your place with a trailer in tow and do it there and he allowed me to watch and help.
Problem was when the good part of actually checking the valves was going on I was out getting some veal sandwiches for us both. Doh!
Up to that point it seems pretty straight forward.
Think I can join the 'Distinguished Gentlemen's Ride' with this type of bike....
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@Jayell has posted some similar ones.
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@Jayell has posted some similar ones.
Really good veal too at That Italian Place across the street from the Bramalea Chrysler plant ... featured on that show "You Gotta Eat Here".
Did ya buy anything? I’m a big fan of the 300cc class from Honda as beginner bikes.
The CB300F, CB300R and CBR300 are all great.
I was looking for the CB500X and also looked at the CB300R.
CB300R would be an excellent 1st bike. Lots and lots of torque.1st gear fuelling is pretty trash. But smoothed out for 2nd.
We use them at our lots for students.
"This should be under warranty but I am going to take it apart myself and post evidence on youtube" could be a ridiculously expensive lesson. If ducati got really annoyed at you, I could see them behaving like ferrari and slow-rolling parts you need for the bike.
bigpoppa
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Influencers, enough said.
This guys gonna try to milk a minor issue for views when he can just take a very expensive bike to the dealer, where its covered under warranty?
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