View attachment 112897 View attachment 112897 Just purchased a 748SP for a decent price although it needs a little work......clutch slave has had a dump and ruined the engine paint, rear ohlins spring paint is flaking off and various other cosmetic issues to deal with! Bike has a genuine 10000kms on the clock and a load of paperwork with it, last year had a full service including belts at Ducati which was seemingly in the religion of a grand. Working away at the minute so only briefly saw the bike Sunday fired it up and gave it a quick once over......then shook hands on it! Will upload more pictures hopefully this weekend of it and maybe some bins! P.s it’s not the little one! I’ve already got an 848 corse SE and like the way that rides so hopefully this new toy will be a nice little project to mint up back to standard so I can enjoy it. I will be grateful for any advice and answered questions as I’m sure I’ll have a few stripping the bike down and cleaning it up!
you said kms, is that an import? How many left says there are only 3 SP's on the road and 8 sorn, so very exclusive club.
Not too sure as I don’t have the log book or looked into the detail, bike looks genuine enough just a bit ‘tatty’ hopefully it’ll tidy up. Will update on the info when I get it all! Cheers!
Lovely bike, the bike I regret selling the most was an sp, for£2300 late 2009. German copper drove all the way to South Wales to collect it
I should be getting it in the garage within the next few days, I paid 5k for it even though it needs a fair bit of cosmetic work to get it back to mint original condition...... hopefully will be worth all the effort!
Finally got the bike back and here’s some photos (bin included) as you can see it’s going to take a fair bit of work to get it back to mint and standard!
Greg, I've just spotted a major problem with your new purchase. If you look very carefully you'll see that...................................its yellow. ok ok I'll get my coat....
I know! If they came in red I may be tempted to swap the paint, although it looks like the side fairings used to be red but they are damaged so I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for replacements
That’s going to be the plan! Although I’ve got a fair bit of stripping down and painting to have done before I can enjoy that
The 748sp only came in yellow with white seat number board. My sp was original but you could see the the fairings had originally been red. Rumours abound from that period, with a parts bin mentality, if they ran out of a fairing in the right colour, they just repainted what they’d got in stock rather than make more of the right colour. Andy
