2020 Ducati streetfighter new owner check-in

Shotcaller said:

I thinks it important to clear the air about some of the negative reviews on this post.

let’s start with the one where the guy has not made any adjustment on the bike or electronics to fit his riding stye (no disrespect) or the guy that doesn’t have one and his mates mate beat up on a SF.

One biggest things I’m seeing is the bike is packed with technology and nobody is using it. You want raw power shut off all technology with over 200+hp please report back on how that worked out. The bike is designed to be able to use and manage the power without getting in over your head but still be fast. My point is get to know the bike it’s an amazing ride with a lot of technology at your finger tips to go faster and faster as you get use to the power output.

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Shotcaller said:

I thinks it important to clear the air about some of the negative reviews on this post.

let’s start with the one where the guy has not made any adjustment on the bike or electronics to fit his riding stye (no disrespect) or the guy that doesn’t have one and his mates mate beat up on a SF.

One biggest things I’m seeing is the bike is packed with technology and nobody is using it. You want raw power shut off all technology with over 200+hp please report back on how that worked out. The bike is designed to be able to use and manage the power without getting in over your head but still be fast. My point is get to know the bike it’s an amazing ride with a lot of technology at your finger tips to go faster and faster as you get use to the power output.

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Yeah I am just curious on how I will react to bike and will have to make a self judgement once I ride it.

Technology and refinement is a part of life, moto gp/race technology is used for a reason to win races. What wins on Sunday sells on Monday. But I am starting to wonder if I want that or not. A year ago I was all for it now not so much. Interesting times.

Gouldilocks said:

Thanks for the reply,

I had a feeling this is what was happening, I am ready to take delivery ASAP. I might get the calling tomorrow to see if I can locate an unsold one...I am curious how many are stateside and unaccounted for. I imagine the number is less than 10 at the moment.

probably guessing next batch aren’t coming anytime soon...

BTW what is everyone insurance looking like considering the bike it’s not in a locator tool in insurance quote because brand new bike ?

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@Gouldilocks I’d first put a call into your dealer, let him know that you know that there are bikes unsold and that you will start proactively looking for one on a set day. After receiving numerous dubious excuses from him, I told my dealer last week that he had until 12 midday Monday 20 April and that I expected my deposit returned the next day. I started looking for the bike and found 2 but, as I said, my call to him was at Midday and by 5pm he had gotten off his butt and found one for me. The bikes are out there (especially due to COVID) but, your dealer has to work to get one, which is sometimes the hard part. Mine is number 286 as per the VIN so it looks like the large shipment to the US was one of the first batches. I couldn’t get hard figures but I’m guessing that hundreds of bikes are stateside, “all” of which dealers have. Ducati USA owns these bikes until 100% sold, so they have the power to reallocate any bike to anywhere in the states at any time (if unsold). Dealer deposits are a pact between dealer/buyer and those funds stay with the dealer until they pay Ducati USA the 100% MSRP. The flipside of this is that DUSA knows exactly where every Unsold bike is in real-time and, if called by a dealer who wants one, can leverage/wrestle the unsold bikes from any location and move them where needed. Again, your dealer just needs to be proactive and they’ll get one. That’s the hard part, putting a fire under their butts and getting them to work for you haha

Gouldilocks said:

Yeah I am just curious on how I will react to bike and will have to make a self judgement once I ride it.

Technology and refinement is a part of life, moto gp/race technology is used for a reason to win races. What wins on Sunday sells on Monday. But I am starting to wonder if I want that or not. A year ago I was all for it now not so much. Interesting times.

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Patience without threats is always the best option. It will be there when it comes. Good things come to those who wait

Duc-rider said:

Patience without threats is always the best option. It will be there when it comes. Good things come to those who wait

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thats forsure haha , I don’t want to twist anybody arm...not that guy, I just want to ride.

i am just the kid with the old toy in the corner seeing all the other kids with their new powerrangers first.

Gouldilocks said:

Yeah I am just curious on how I will react to bike and will have to make a self judgement once I ride it.

Technology and refinement is a part of life, moto gp/race technology is used for a reason to win races. What wins on Sunday sells on Monday. But I am starting to wonder if I want that or not. A year ago I was all for it now not so much. Interesting times.

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My take after decades of superbikes is the following. Politics are wrecking our beloved superbikes. Quirky emissions rules are leaving manufacturers with a conundrum where bikes need to pass tests that are so stringent at idle and through the lower rev range that soon we will see start/stop on our superbikes too. This obligation means that bikes are strangled out of the crate with EVAP, Cats and lean (and I mean unrideable lean) low rev fuel mixtures. Secondly, governments look at bikers as anti-social, the horsepower war between manufacturers as childish and risky. In Europe they’ve introduced staged licensing which forces new riders to use certain capacity bikes for periods of time and then “graduate“ to more powerful machines after periods of time and more tests (Extra money for the govs). Manufacturers have responded by appeasing governments with electronics and sayIng “hey, our bike has 200bhp but my electronics limit all of it to avoid an accident”. Its a tightrope, because manufacturers naturally fear more draconian measures and have tried to police themselves in response. The king of nanny states (France) had manufacturer’s limit superbikes to 100bhp, so while I was living there in the early 90s I bought a ZZR 1100 and couldn’t figure out why it was down on power over the previous one I had in Spain, I then learned that the plenum chamber throttle slide covers were 10mm shorter for france, thus not allowing the throttle slide to fully rise, so I bought these in Spain and swapped them out. All of this makes todays bikes (outta the crate) rather diluted in feel over those of yesteryear. I remember getting “the first bike of that year” where I lived (I’ve lived/worked in world markets where bikes weren’t easy to buy, no dealers etc) and having it shipped straight from the manufacturers to me in its crate and doing the prep myself. The bikes were always raw back then, and even for a seasoned rider like me, my first ride on a newer more powerful machine was an eye opener. I recall getting an R1 back in the 2000s, I had a ZX9 R at the time, after assembling it I did an initial ride down the street and almost spun out with the off throttle first twist of the wrist. It was exciting but, that just tells you the massive power difference between a few short years that we used to get back then. My SF 4S appears to need “unstrangling”, since its crate form appears to be somewhat affected by the nanny state we find ourselves more and more affected by...too lean, silent, electronics that all need to be virtually turned off...

Gouldilocks said:

Yeah I am just curious on how I will react to bike and will have to make a self judgement once I ride it.

Technology and refinement is a part of life, moto gp/race technology is used for a reason to win races. What wins on Sunday sells on Monday. But I am starting to wonder if I want that or not. A year ago I was all for it now not so much. Interesting times.

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To be honest I wanted the standard model. But after having the adjustment of the suspension at my finger tips. I will never buy another motorcycle without electronically controlled suspension it’s in short amazing. Even the steering dampening is electronically controlled. Did I say the electronics are amazing lol.

Inadeje said:

My take after decades of superbikes is the following. Politics are wrecking our beloved superbikes. Quirky emissions rules are leaving manufacturers with a conundrum where bikes need to pass tests that are so stringent at idle and through the lower rev range that soon we will see start/stop on our superbikes too. This obligation means that bikes are strangled out of the crate with EVAP, Cats and lean (and I mean unrideable lean) low rev fuel mixtures.

My SF 4S appears to need “unstrangling”, since its crate form appears to be somewhat affected by the nanny state we find ourselves more and more affected by...too lean, silent, electronics that all need to be virtually turned off...

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I just gave you the solution to that a few posts up.

Sherpa23 said:

I just gave you the solution to that a few posts up.

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@Sherpa23 Yes, thanks. I will take it there after the run-in period and also get the pipe and evap off it. Basically, it appears that new crated bikes now need adapting back to how the manufacturers intended But were forced to deliver them in the form we first receive them...

Shotcaller said:

I thinks it important to clear the air about some of the negative reviews on this post.

let’s start with the one where the guy has not made any adjustment on the bike or electronics to fit his riding stye (no disrespect) or the guy that doesn’t have one and his mates mate beat up on a SF.

One biggest things I’m seeing is the bike is packed with technology and nobody is using it. You want raw power shut off all technology with over 200+hp please report back on how that worked out. The bike is designed to be able to use and manage the power without getting in over your head but still be fast. My point is get to know the bike it’s an amazing ride with a lot of technology at your finger tips to go faster and faster as you get use to the power output.

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@Shotcaller I guess my age is showing through here , you see I remember a time when it was my right wrist that controlled the power and riding experience. I guess the advent of electronics and their prevalence over the past few years is considered by some as an advancement and, for unexperienced riders I would tend to agree. Frankly, I don’t see much difference between a 180 bhp of 10 years ago and the 200 bhp batch we see now. The new tech isn’t working to reign-in that last 20 bhp, rather the whole gamut. I will switch off the whole electronics when the bike is run in and, revert back to my +30 years of throttle modulation and riding style. I will then report back as you suggest .

To those who feel the reviews are lackluster, listen, you need to crack this thing open. Skip to 2 minutes in this video and you'll see the exact experience I had on the SFV4S the first time I rode it.



If you don't care for that kind of top speed, go down a tooth in front and if you're really crazy an additional 2 teeth up in the rear and you've still got a 270km/h naked bike which is ridiculously wheelie happy.

Inadeje said:

@Sherpa23 Yes, thanks. I will take it there after the run-in period and also get the pipe and evap off it. Basically, it appears that new crated bikes now need adapting back to how the manufacturers intended But were forced to deliver them in the form we first receive them...

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I think you will find a real before and after difference and it’s probably good to do the break-in with the bike in stock form.

I keep some of my race bikes there at MCP and do a a bunch of private track days with them around the country. Their work and care is top notch and you're quite fortunate to be local to them. And they've built a handful of V4 race bikes so they know how to tune them properly.

I'm confident that you will be pleased.

I took my daughter out for a ride today. The bike is great two-up and she said she was comfortable on the back. The bars give it good low speed leverage and the balance is great. We did a lot of slow riding around Miami Beach and the heat still hasn’t been an issue at all (yes I still have shorts on . Also, I am guessing that the Dealer put 83 gas in it, because today I filled with 93 and it was immediately better at low revs. Didn’t stall either...

Still haven’t been able to try it over 5k revs for much time, due to run-in and generally leisurely riding.

Magsz said:

Like...literally? lol!

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Yeah ur gonna wind up pulling out the checkbook!

Sherpa23 said:

I think you will find a real before and after difference and it’s probably good to do the break-in with the bike in stock form.

I keep some of my race bikes there at MCP and do a a bunch of private track days with them around the country. Their work and care is top notch and you're quite fortunate to be local to them. And they've built a handful of V4 race bikes so they know how to tune them properly.

I'm confident that you will be pleased.

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I will call them 100%. As soon as the break-in service is done I am going to get my muffler decat with phil on here. Immediately after I will take it to them.

Inadeje said:

I will call them 100%. As soon as the break-in service is done I am going to get my muffler decat with phil on here. Immediately after I will take it to them.

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ur not done with that yet? Geez.

Thought between u and ur daughter riding it around it wouldn’t take more than 2 days

DucatiKev said:

ur not done with that yet? Geez.

Thought between u and ur daughter riding it around it wouldn’t take more than 2 days

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Inadeje said:

I took my daughter out for a ride today. The bike is great two-up and she said she was comfortable on the back. The bars give it good low speed leverage and the balance is great. We did a lot of slow riding around Miami Beach and the heat still hasn’t been an issue at all (yes I still have shorts on . Also, I am guessing that the Dealer put 83 gas in it, because today I filled with 93 and it was immediately better at low revs. Didn’t stall either...

Still haven’t been able to try it over 5k revs for much time, due to run-in and generally leisurely riding.

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That’s awesome news! So sounds like it’s not to lean from the factory.

Now you just need to let it hang out and you will see it’s not lethargic. I did some hard hits today with some liter bikes let’s just say it’s a keeper. 1 to 3 gear the bike hits 138 damn quick.... Great Pictures thanks for sharing.

got word my bike has arrived this morning.

Keep you guys posted on VIN , and pictures soon...

Well all the mods are don but my dealer is waiting for Ducati to send the up map then I can pick her up. I suppose I should tell the wife at this point I bought another bike??? But maybe she won't notice? lol