Cost and requirement
The service is 12-14 hours (including any ancillary finds and fixes while the have your bike taken apart). The dealer is the only one with knowledge of all the latest bulletins and required updates. Aforementioned tools is another one. Training of the technician on the modern bike yet a critical factor. In Cali, if you spend no more than $2K(includes TAX) on the 15K service, you are within range. The bike will run like new! It may not look exactly like new because its been well run, but it will function as new because its fully reconditioned mechanically.
If you want to be on the cheap then the life of the bike in general will be severely shortened. I intend to achieve over 60K miles or even 80K miles before I put her up as a backup bike. It'll take a bit of service cost to do it but the beauty of it is that the Ducati service has gotten very reliable and the dealers know how to keep these machines running predictably through regular maintenance. The lack of surprises makes this bike a great daily driver, in my opinion. I had several issues but they were all handled expediently and successfully. As exotic as the S is, to be able to almost daily drive it and pull as many miles in one year as an economy car in city to congested highway to high speed rural in summer heat and near freezing high altitude winter in Cali is a wonderful feat! As much as I would of like to do that with my F4RR, it simply doesn't have the daily driver bit factored in as much as the 1199S. This has been an experiment and so far so good.
The service is 12-14 hours (including any ancillary finds and fixes while the have your bike taken apart). The dealer is the only one with knowledge of all the latest bulletins and required updates. Aforementioned tools is another one. Training of the technician on the modern bike yet a critical factor. In Cali, if you spend no more than $2K(includes TAX) on the 15K service, you are within range. The bike will run like new! It may not look exactly like new because its been well run, but it will function as new because its fully reconditioned mechanically.
If you want to be on the cheap then the life of the bike in general will be severely shortened. I intend to achieve over 60K miles or even 80K miles before I put her up as a backup bike. It'll take a bit of service cost to do it but the beauty of it is that the Ducati service has gotten very reliable and the dealers know how to keep these machines running predictably through regular maintenance. The lack of surprises makes this bike a great daily driver, in my opinion. I had several issues but they were all handled expediently and successfully. As exotic as the S is, to be able to almost daily drive it and pull as many miles in one year as an economy car in city to congested highway to high speed rural in summer heat and near freezing high altitude winter in Cali is a wonderful feat! As much as I would of like to do that with my F4RR, it simply doesn't have the daily driver bit factored in as much as the 1199S. This has been an experiment and so far so good.
