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No kidding. I lived right off an amazing road then, so it was like being 10 and living next door to Disneyland.Yeah, but you have to GET to that road first...
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!
Looks like my '90. Like that bike quite a lot, and it's pretty solidly on the "Not For Sale" list right now. We'll see once riding season really starts though... there are too many bikes in the garage right now.93 K75S...this one I don't...but she was a good travel companion.
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LOL...when I retired, my wife suggested that I buy a bike to commemorate the occasion...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
"...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."LOL...when I retired, my wife suggested that I buy a bike to commemorate the occasion...
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Can confirm."...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
You'll like this one I spied at Boulder Motosport last September: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.