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Yeah, but you have to GET to that road first... :ROFLMAO:

I did a stupid amount of work to the SP...big bore kit, titanium rods, bigger valves, hotter cams, pumper carbs, open airbox, front and rear suspension redone by Jim Lindeman...yada, yada. Removed all the sound deadening material in the fairings...she was light, just under 400 lbs wet.

Cast iron Brembo full floating rotors...they would rattle as you rolled her around the garage.

Ahhhh...memories!
No kidding. I lived right off an amazing road then, so it was like being 10 and living next door to Disneyland.
 
In '23, my dealer said my '18 GSA Rallye need a part that might take a while to get. When I told my wife it looked like I might miss riding season, she said, "Why don't you just get a new bike." What a simple solution. Fortunately, my dealer also has plenty of Ducatis in stock and I found the the right one.
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These days, I find it difficult to exercise my GSA.

Mike
 
In '23, my dealer said my '18 GSA Rallye need a part that might take a while to get. When I told my wife it looked like I might miss riding season, she said, "Why don't you just get a new bike." What a simple solution. Fortunately, my dealer also has plenty of Ducatis in stock and I found the the right one.
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These days, I find it difficult to exercise my GSA.

Mike
LOL...when I retired, my wife suggested that I buy a bike to commemorate the occasion...

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At my age once I got on it I would need help straightening my knees so I could put my feet down and get off.
 
LOL...when I retired, my wife suggested that I buy a bike to commemorate the occasion...

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"...bikes serve as a kind of compensation for putting up with everything safe and mundane in this world, a thumb in the eye of caution. All motorcycles do this to some extent, but Ducatis are the image on the recruiting poster."
- Peter Egan
 
"...bikes serve as a kind of compensation for putting up with everything safe and mundane in this world, a thumb in the eye of caution. All motorcycles do this to some extent, but Ducatis are the image on the recruiting poster."
- Peter Egan
Can confirm.

The rattling dry clutch. The Brembo floaters clanking as you back it out of the garage. The alarming casualness it has at absurd speed. How utterly bored it seems with “just out for a ride”.

I have an ongoing Monster SR4S fascination. 916 bits in a more habitable chassis.
 
Can confirm.

The rattling dry clutch. The Brembo floaters clanking as you back it out of the garage. The alarming casualness it has at absurd speed. How utterly bored it seems with “just out for a ride”.

I have an ongoing Monster SR4S fascination. 916 bits in a more habitable chassis.
You'll like this one I spied at Boulder Motosport last September:
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Mike
 
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I owned a Ducati Monster for around 17 years. It was a 96 M900, purchased from the Honda, BMW, Ducati dealer in Columbus, Oh. It had been briefly owned by a Japanese feller that worked for Honda in nearby Marysville, OH. He was getting transferred back to Japan and needed to get rid of the bike. It was great fun to ride around the Hocking Hills area (near Columbus) for most of the time in which I owned the bike. The gas tank on the Monster was custom painted; the original tank had some paint bubbles. The bubbles were not from rust, but rather where the guys hand hammering the tank during the manufacturing process made the metal too thin. I gathered that this was not uncommon. A local bike painter / customizer had a monster and had some Euro-spec tanks. He was able to paint my tank and sell me the Euro-spec tank for less than half the cost of a new tank from Ducati. The main difference in the Euro-spec tank and the US OEM one dealt with the fuel filter location (as I recall).

I needed to make a hole in the garage for a K75S (second one!) purchased as a fly-and-buy. I sold the Monster to a different BMW, Triumph, Ducati dealer in Columbus (MotOhio). By that time the 15 mile ride on the Monster was starting to feel like a long trip. I was very happy that Mike Allen (dealership owner) was able to get his wife to give me a ride home.

My wife and I had a neat ride back on the K75S from Arizona to Ohio. Still have the K75S; still runs great!
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