I have oddly conflicted feelings about this. Some of you know that I severely injured myself on an '04 749, completely my own fault, and requiring not a few years of rehab and some question as to whether I would walk again.
But, I now live less than 10 miles from the BRP, and before the wreck had 30 years of good motorcycling. So I've been in a self imposed exile until moving here, when I start to idly cruise the classifieds.
Last week, an '06 ST3s abs pops up. For Ducati sport touring folks, this might be the sweetspot-3 valve Desmo twin, which means the torque of the 2 valve Ducs but with a little more rev happiness, in a literbike sport touring package. Oh, it has a wet clutch, but I'm over the rattle.
I would have moved on past the ad, except the bike is pretty flawless, it has new tires, chain, sprockets, battery, recent belts, and a ton of farkles-heated grips, led aux lights, tank guard, carbon exhaust, dual ram mounts, and a $500 Ducati Performance seat, which is considered to be one of the best seats ever made. Oh, and the s had both Ohlins shock and forks. And, because the tach is flakey, its 2k under market at 2900...
So, its in my garage. The seller was 64 and an honest dude, and his remark was "so you ride it 2-3x a year, what are you losing at this price" and he was right.
I'm 61, and hopefully can keep the mist much more under control. I'll never use the bike anywhere near its potential, but thats not a bad thing.
I know trader220 and a couple others here are St guys, so any advice appreciated.
