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Cotton, I'm sure you're right. But I think it's clear from my track record - dumping the bike every 6 mos - that I'm no safety authority, nor do I pretend to be. But to be fair to me, you realize that a Ducati 900ss, being an aircooled Vtwin, isn't much quicker than the Suzuki SVXXZZRR650 or whatever it is. So the bike I'm advocating is really not that big of a mofo. I have met more than a few guys who've had serious accidents thanks to inexperience & the gloriously absurd power-to-weight ratio of the R1. I've never ridden one of those things and I probably never will. What I'm advocating above the more banal practicalities that everyone else so piously mentions, though, is STYLE, which I'm saying the Ducs have over all the other bikes. And personally for me the sound and feel of the 900 vtwin in particular (as opposed to the smaller motors they make) made riding more attractive and more fun than it would otherwise have been. And I grew into the power very quickly.
Cheers,
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~Hugh
'84 Carrera
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