It misfired as it ran out of fuel. I believe some other owners have had the same issue when running the tank too empty. Hypermotardking did a video about it when he first had his.
£17.5 k for an SP ? Blimey. I know that most of these will go on PCP or some sort of finance but even so, thats a lot of money.
agreed, but so is £15k for that new ‘73’ model scrambler thing they have done. The pricing is getting silly. Ducati openly said they wanted to push profit over volume because they were a boutique brand, but the people with LOADS of money are only buying the specials to keep, so all these bikes aren’t in that category (as nice as the hyper is)
And we wonder why the bikes sales are so low in this country ? I watch the new MX Ducati bike as thats kinda of the same but there are very few people in the MX world that look at things like that from their broken rusty transit ............. ( yes im one of them )
bit of a side bar. But speaking to a mate who’s in the trade and he was saying the Ducati MX450 is a great bike but they have gone a bit ‘different’ with the geometry and some riders have struggled to get on with it. It seems it’s perhaps not as universally loved like the new Triumphs for example, they are so so popular, starting to see them a lot, in part helped by the KTM woes, people got nervous perhaps and thought they would give the triumph a go. naturally I think the markets change, me and my 4-5 riding buddies though are all in decent ish financial positions relative to the ‘average’ but we are looking at 3-5 year old bikes that have lost 50% of their value, even if that’s stuff like Multistradas, or Diavels or stuff like the thruxtons, it’s just the way it seems to have gone for the vast majority of riders.
We looked at the new Triumphs but tbh we got steered away with the clutch problems they have had . Sure they have done a couple of recalls but being a new bike its put people off buying them at least short term. The Ducats are just expensive and im struggling to get over Ducati+mud+water = reliability I think all the new stuff people just want PCP which is also the reason the second hand market for higher priced bikes has taken a nose dive .
