Picking it up next week I bought a Multistrada in 2024 and had it for a year, great bike but just too tall for me. I replaced that with a Suzuki GX but was really missing the 937 engine and realised it was the Supersport I had wanted all along. It's just over 5 years old and 11k miles and could do with the belts changing, which I had to have done on my Multistrada. Just wondering if there's a cheaper option than the local Ducati dealer Hoping it all goes well for the pick up next week
Good choice. I still have a genuine low seat from when my girlfriend had her Supersport, https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/2017-supersport-s-low-seat-96880421a.97688/, if you don’t already have one Andy
In 2017 I needed a change of bike having had my 1200MTS for 5 years and around 30,000 miles. At a Ducati demo day I tried the MTS 950 and the Supersport 939 back to back. The Supersport was a revelation to me. It fitted like a glove, it was much lighter and lower, so easier to wheel around and it just felt right, inspiring confidence. The Supersport won over the Multi hands down. Alas, last year I lost my lower left leg and although I managed to do 500 or 600 miles last year with a push button gearchange conversion I found that my Scrambler is much easier to get on and off and gives me more confidence when coming to a halt. Consequently the Supersport will be up for sale soon with 17,000 miles on it. I'd far rather have kept it but I have to consider my own safety.
I suppose any reputable bike mechanic can do the belts. Don’t know if they need a special tool to lock the cams?
Many thanks for all the replies and deepest sympathies Derek, all the best to you for the future. I've spent some time looking at belt changes and it all came flooding back to me. The correct, Ducati dealer, method is to use a crank locking tool along with a cam locking tool, which locks the cams not the pulleys. Once the new belts are on and leaving everything locked, you then loosen the torx bolts that clamp the pulleys to the cams and tension the belt. This allows the pulleys to move slightly as the tension is distributed evenly around the belt without altering the valve timing. You then tighten the pulley bolts and your done. TBH, even buying Exact Start/Cycleworks belts and tools off eBay, the saving isn't that great and then they'll next be changed as part of the desmo service, which I wouldn't attempt, so I'm not going to get a big pay back on the tools, like when they had to be changed every other year. Probably leave it all to a dealer and get my nice Ducati receipt
Have you negotiated this with current owner/dealer? I think when I had my 2017 SS belts and service it was around £550 from Ducati Worcester, this was about 4 years ago.
When I had my 950 Multistrada serviced last year, with belts, it was about £650. I was quoted, approximately, about £400 for just doing the belts on the Supersport. Maybe removing 300 fairing bolts adds something to the labour charge?
