Did my homework, not a surprise, and I CAN afford to play. Doesn't mean I have to happily bend over for Ducati to do this service. As stated before:
Wow - only 30% less service cost at 15K mi than a Lamborghini Gallardo costing 10x as much as a Panigale R.
I suppose if you were the dealer, or the bloke working on the shop floor. You'd like to take a pay cut just for whenever a whinger like you comes in to get their services done.
You should've bought the Lambo instead.
That way the servicing costs would be an easier reaming for you to cop.
They could literally use you as a hose joiner by simultaneously getting you at both ends while your bent over your choice of the bonnet or boot. I reckon you'd think it's great.
That's got to be better value than the DUCATI. Right?
Sorry, but if you had done your homework properly you wouldn't be having a problem with bending over for DUCATI.
It also helps to do your yoga practice properly instead of perving on the shielas in the class.
That way bending over is easier because of increased flexibility
For Christ's sake.
One look at the bike will tell you that the design of the thing won't totally mitigate expensive servicing. It's design is the exact same format as all the previous models, only it's a little more complex.
It's not rocket science.
That's the trade off for vastly improved performance and having the latest and greatest in a drop dead gorgeous package.
Just the fact that it has full fairings is going to push the cost up. Maybe you should've bought a naked
Then there's the fact that it has one cylinder shoehorned in behind the radiator on the horizontal plane and the other cylinder in the vertical plane under the tank. Perhaps a triple or an inline 4 with the cylinders neatly lined up in front would've been a better choice (for you)
Better still go and get yourself a single cylinder dirt bike
That should be cheap enough for you.
Or if it has to a "big" bike, then a boxer would suit your servicing budget better. Even at 10,000 km intervals.
Try looking at it this way.
At least DUCATI won't be periodically charging you(extra) for a set of belts or to adjust belt tension while they're reaming you
Next thing you'll be bitching about the fact that you've got to put oil and filters and plugs into it(at least there's only 2 of them)
And the tyres still wear out.
And you've got to put brake pads on it because they wore out or change brake fluid.
And it will require steering head bearings and bearings in the SSSA hub and wheel bearings.
Chain and sprockets? God forbid.
Maybe it's too heavy on the fuel as well?
Etc, etc, etc.
You could always sell it before the big service comes up and cut your losses.
That's what I did about 20 years ago with my VFR 750 F and no house to mortgage to pay for "the big service" on it.
Now there was a good old fashioned reaming for you. And by Honda no less
See, every cloud truly has a silver lining
As my old Grandfather always said.
"There's no experience like the experience you pay for"
