You mean un the few months you have been here?
These bikes have had great reliability over the years ive been here. And I don't know what your talking about.
Most of us are out beating on ours racking up the miles, with smiles.
And if you have a problem with 200HP its personal, not the bike.
These bikes are not perfect, none are, all bikes have some sort of issue one way or another. There not for everybody.
That was my point! Maybe YOUR bike is running well, YOUR bike may be reliable, YOUR bike might be great.
Well.... Mine runs like .... most of the time and certainly not up to its potential..Certainly not the way a $25K + bike should run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had a LOT of patience with it.. I have had it in the shop virtually every week trying to get it resolved. The dealer is GREAT They are trying hard.. However the actual manufacturer DUCATI, doesn't seem to have wanted to even admit there was a problem until now. After 4 months of this BS they are finally going to send a guy out to ride it and try to fix it. Well Hoo-Ray!
BTW.. Maybe your bike is putting out 200 hp..Mine is definitely NOT putting out anywhere near that..! I have had it on a Dyno twice.. It's max was 173 on a cool morning.. much worse when it warmed up.. Its AFR is all over the place It runs REAL lean on the low to midrange Then real rich on the upper level. (I have 600cc bikes pull on me out of the corners at COTA..) I KNOW how to ride, I ride in the expert level and have for years. I KNOW when a bike is running correctly..
Maybe you and others have had a great experience with their bikes. I have not That is what this forum is all about right.. to be able to talk about our bikes and compare notes.. Maybe ask for help or advice...
Well evidently when someone gets on it and expressed a disdain for their bike becaseu of problems they are having over and over, you get your panties in a wad and feel like you need to chastise them for not being happy... Who made you the king of the forum?
Ducati doesn't give you much in the way of options when trying to upgrade or modify their bikes.. I had to pay the absolutely RIICULOUS sum of another $3500.00 for Akropovic slipo'ns with the 1299 UP Map just in desperation.. trying to solve the issues..NO REAL IMPROVEMENT.
Maybe it is just my bike.. probably is.. I am not knocking all the Duicati's I have always wanted a Ducati, I even wore the shirts for sevferal years before I purchased one.. I hung around the dealer here in Austin on and off just drooling over the new Panigale. I finally went for it and no I am just not happy... I am just pissed off that after all this and the extra money I have spent it is a dog compared to my old ZX10. At least on the track. I am 61 years old and have ridden fast bikes for many years. (Probably many more years than YOU have been riding)... I am a performance oriented rider and I am NOT happy to just "cruise around" or tour about town and be happy with my bike when it is not running the way it should.
Maybe you and others are? I am not.....When I spend the money I spent I DEMAND it run correctly. If I cannot get it right( or at the very least running in a SAFE manner) I am going to start raising hell with Ducati (the factory)
Answer me this....? Does YOUR bike have the throttle stick on and STAY revved up to 3000 rpm for about a half second after you chopped the throttle in a corner (and then suddenly drop back down in the middle of the turn?) Would that bother you if it did? Well mine does....
Does YOUR bike cut off and die on you often, sometimes in the middle of an intersection with cars coming at you? Would that BOTHER YOU if it did? IF not then you don't know what I have gone through. So STFU....!
SPEEDY
