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Hi, I recently posted about my V4 shopping and was encouraged to get one, but after someone mentioned to me that it is not as nimble as the 959, I grew concerned. I currently ride a Triumph Street Triple 675r and an Yamaha MT-10, one being great at small corners and the other being a ... fight lol. I love them both, but it's time to have a full fairing sport bike in my life again. I'm tired of wind at high speed.
I ride very challenging mountain roads, and I am not interested in track riding. We have many corners (hundreds, thousands sometimes, literally, as I'm up in North Thailand in the foothills of the Himalayas), many of them small and tight, but also many medium to high speed corners too. The roads are off camber, decreasing radius, and changing in incline and decline, and sometimes all at once. It's incredibly challenging but also incredibly rewarding.
My 675 is fun of course, it's nice and raw, good feeling through to the road, I can feel when the back wheel is spinning, the throttle cable is.. well... a cable and not electronic, so it's a very FUN and raw bike; very good feel through for the rider, but the wind gets to be unbearable for my long torso. My MT-10 doesn't have that same great feel through at all, but the electronic aids help with the wheel spin and I can fight hard and corner on it to its limit in tighter corners if I feel like it, but it's a workout, and then I can hit the high speed corners and straights pretty hard with confidence as it does a good job keeping the wheel down, whose dream is to be forever be up soaring to the sky. It's also fun in its own way, but again, my long torso and that wind are a killer, and decent looking windscreen aren't helping. (I don't like the big touring screens on the naked sport bikes. I think they are hideous).
So, back to what I said at first. I was going to buy a V4/V4S, but a friend got a 959 and is LOVING it, and said it feels more nimble than his triumph 765, which was surprising to me. I asked a local Ducati expert here and he said that the 959 IS going to be more nimble and better for small corners than the V4 because of the lower center of gravity on the 959, but that the V4 would feel better than my MT-10. (but just how much better I don't know). So, while that sounds like a good compromise, I'm not sure which bike is going to be closer to the 675 in those small corners, which we have sooo many of; 959, 1199, 1299, V4? Perhaps the V4 is not as nimble as the 675 or 959, but is still pretty close and Ill have a ton of fun? Or perhaps it's just not suited for that kind of riding and one of the other models is more suited to my riding? I'm anxious to buy something, but I want to make sure I get the right bike, and my impulsiveness may lead me to the wrong bike. I do want a Panigale because I've never had one and love the style, and since I want a sport bike with torque they seem to fit the bill.
So, the moral of all this story, and the TLDR question is, if I want a Panigale, the most nimble, but still torquey and fast, not super old, and with the most "fun factor" for tight mountain roads, which model is the best fit?
Thank you!
I ride very challenging mountain roads, and I am not interested in track riding. We have many corners (hundreds, thousands sometimes, literally, as I'm up in North Thailand in the foothills of the Himalayas), many of them small and tight, but also many medium to high speed corners too. The roads are off camber, decreasing radius, and changing in incline and decline, and sometimes all at once. It's incredibly challenging but also incredibly rewarding.
My 675 is fun of course, it's nice and raw, good feeling through to the road, I can feel when the back wheel is spinning, the throttle cable is.. well... a cable and not electronic, so it's a very FUN and raw bike; very good feel through for the rider, but the wind gets to be unbearable for my long torso. My MT-10 doesn't have that same great feel through at all, but the electronic aids help with the wheel spin and I can fight hard and corner on it to its limit in tighter corners if I feel like it, but it's a workout, and then I can hit the high speed corners and straights pretty hard with confidence as it does a good job keeping the wheel down, whose dream is to be forever be up soaring to the sky. It's also fun in its own way, but again, my long torso and that wind are a killer, and decent looking windscreen aren't helping. (I don't like the big touring screens on the naked sport bikes. I think they are hideous).
So, back to what I said at first. I was going to buy a V4/V4S, but a friend got a 959 and is LOVING it, and said it feels more nimble than his triumph 765, which was surprising to me. I asked a local Ducati expert here and he said that the 959 IS going to be more nimble and better for small corners than the V4 because of the lower center of gravity on the 959, but that the V4 would feel better than my MT-10. (but just how much better I don't know). So, while that sounds like a good compromise, I'm not sure which bike is going to be closer to the 675 in those small corners, which we have sooo many of; 959, 1199, 1299, V4? Perhaps the V4 is not as nimble as the 675 or 959, but is still pretty close and Ill have a ton of fun? Or perhaps it's just not suited for that kind of riding and one of the other models is more suited to my riding? I'm anxious to buy something, but I want to make sure I get the right bike, and my impulsiveness may lead me to the wrong bike. I do want a Panigale because I've never had one and love the style, and since I want a sport bike with torque they seem to fit the bill.
So, the moral of all this story, and the TLDR question is, if I want a Panigale, the most nimble, but still torquey and fast, not super old, and with the most "fun factor" for tight mountain roads, which model is the best fit?
Thank you!
