New to Ducati's not so to biking

12-09-2017, 04:00 PM

Hi All,

New to the site and Ducati’s not so new to motorcycling, with a little over 30 years behind the bars I’m ashamed to say I’ve never even had a go on a Ducati! I know shocking right.

Anyway to try and make amends I’m picking up a 2005 S2R 800 on Sunday, a nice looking red with white strips and white wheels and some funky aftermarket carbon end cans, the Ducati will be my other bike as I run a BMW S1000XR as my main bike. The Ducati is for doing a bit of solo riding and the odd track day.

I’ve done my research on the S2R’s and a full HIP check any words of advice? “every day a School day”! The bike has been serviced with new belts and so on, it has some service history and looking at the MOT logs at 25k looks like it did a bit of commuter work for a year or so, the rest looks like Sunday short ride outs and so on.

12-09-2017, 04:00 PM	#1
Gaz66 Guest Posts: n/a	New to Ducati's not so to biking Hi All, New to the site and Ducati’s not so new to motorcycling, with a little over 30 years behind the bars I’m ashamed to say I’ve never even had a go on a Ducati! I know shocking right. Anyway to try and make amends I’m picking up a 2005 S2R 800 on Sunday, a nice looking red with white strips and white wheels and some funky aftermarket carbon end cans, the Ducati will be my other bike as I run a BMW S1000XR as my main bike. The Ducati is for doing a bit of solo riding and the odd track day. I’ve done my research on the S2R’s and a full HIP check any words of advice? “every day a School day”! The bike has been serviced with new belts and so on, it has some service history and looking at the MOT logs at 25k looks like it did a bit of commuter work for a year or so, the rest looks like Sunday short ride outs and so on.