Ducati (ex) owners?

[Riko_imp]

You will be riding the bike wherever it needs to be ridden, it will feel natural after you get used to it. If you have never owned a Ducati maybe you should give it a try, but if you don't really have a lot of cash to spend on maintenance and need a reliable machine it is perhaps not the most effective choice out there. If it makes little to no power below 3000 RPM you won't be riding it in that range anyway.
103 pages of problems? Wow.

thats common sence

but many ducatistas do not have common sense, they call it passion

A Japanese engineer sees a bike and wants to get the most reliability out of it.
It still seems to me a Ducati engineer sees a bike and wants to achieve the coolest, loudest, fastest and prettiest bike on the block, and reliability is not a first priority.

That said, are the costs of maintenance of a Duc still that high?
When I look at the maintenance intervals, its pretty good:
http://www.ducatinortheurope.be/nl/bikes...ch_spec.do

Maintenance service intervals = 15.000km
Valve clearance check = 30.000km

Thats as good or better than our beloved reliable Honda's

Whats the catch?...
If, and I cannot emphasis this enough, but if I would get a 2nd bike, that second bike would be more a occasional long distance/travel/holiday/weekend bike, certainly not a daily commute bike.

So I'm not worried about break downs due to intens daily commutes
Break downs from occasional use is bad enough, but even a Duc should do for that I hope

Actually, I live close to my work so I do not use my CB for that, I got my 50cc Ruckus for that

For everything else I use the CB.

But I do feel the eager to travel across Europe, but for some specific reasons I do not want to use my CB for that.
Although purely technically its more than up for the job.

The CB is a perfect city bike for me, and the perfect day out bike.
I could even use that for a weekend I guess.

But to do longer international travels, I miss the practicality of descent wind protection, hard spacious luggage, a bigger tank with good mileage (the Multi's have good stats in that matter it seems) and I a little bit more bite would not hurt
It has all sorts of gizmo's that can come handy on such travels: cruise control, better seat (?), and that sky hook suspension should be something of a marvel...
Plus, the Multi combines all that in a relatively light package.
And I like the look of the Multi, by far the best looking AVD-Touring-Sport touring of them all.
The K1600GT is maybe on par in the looks department, but I am not gonna start about that Beemer...

Only big issue the Multi has is its reputation, being a Ducati.
But if I had the money and place right now, I'd take the risk


+ a 2nd bike give me the chance to dump all the practicallity mods on my CB and transform it in a true naked, something like these, wich are my reference CB's in terms of looks