I am getting a good deal on 2012 1199 with 1.9% loan from freedom loan is icing on the cake but as owner of 6 other bikes with single digit delivery miles what is your sense with 22 miles? Is that normal with Ducati with scrubbing the tires what not? Or the dealer has demoed the bike?
new 1199 with 22 delivery miles
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It's propably fine. I think 22 miles is too low for actual demo bike, but it isn't out of realm to say it may have been on a demo run. As long as everything looks straight I think you're fine.
That said, I personally wouldn't buy an actual demo bike with hundreds or thousands of miles on it.
That said, I personally wouldn't buy an actual demo bike with hundreds or thousands of miles on it.
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i would if the price is right, personally im much more gentle on an unfamiliar demo bike than my own that im used to.
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Welcome to the forum and congrats! You're fine, just enjoy the bike.
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My dealer told me they were gonna ride it for 20 miles to make sure everything was exactly as it should be. They told me up front, and I was fine with it.
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mine had 18 miles on it, don't know why.
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.1 miles fresh out of the crate.
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Same.
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22 miles is NOTHING. They literally could have ridden the bike, noticed something needed further adjustment (example, suspension noise, shifting issue, 1 million different things, etc) or the bike needed any one of the many recalls performed and a test drive required after doing it...
If you said 200 miles, I'd raise it'd raise an eyebrow...
Ur fine
If you said 200 miles, I'd raise it'd raise an eyebrow...
Ur fine
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.1 out of the crate. How many of you that had higher miles, actually ordered yours, rather than bought off the show room floor? If so, I would just ask. I wuld not them using my ordered bike as a demo. I saw mine uncrated, then they serviced it later and handed over to me. I would think impossible to have miles put on before crating.
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Xbox, that'd mean they didn't ride it to make sure it worked properly is all that means...
I'm sure your bike was fine but being in the car business/industry I can tell you EVERY car we get off the truck has the fluids checked, and the car is driven to make sure the clear vision (alignment or tire pressure) is ok so the car does down the road straight and doesn't make any noises...
We've had (out of the 10's of thousands of cars we've sold) have had cars that needed TLC right away before the car hit the dealer lot.
20 miles ain't "shiite"!
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Maybe it's just me, but no miles on a bike I'm buying doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the thoroughness of the dealer. How many posts have we seen where parts were loose, fell off, in the first few miles of th ebike, might've been caught if it had some miles put on it.
On the 22 miles, with everyone else, it's nothing, UNLESS they're drag strip miles
On the 22 miles, with everyone else, it's nothing, UNLESS they're drag strip miles
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They took it round the block after setup and that was it. As one of the most expensive bikes the importer has sold, I guess they didn't want to chance a miss-hap.
I agree that 20miles is pretty insignificant, but then again, I have witnessed what 20-miles in the hands of a guy that hasn't and isn't paying can look like
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Just to add, I mean proper naughty stuff like an E46 M3, which incidentally were prone to engine replacements early in life if abused, being ragged at >130mph before 600mile service, by a dealer
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that's what two year warranties are for
Just to add, I mean proper naughty stuff like an E46 M3, which incidentally were prone to engine replacements early in life if abused, being ragged at >130mph before 600mile service, by a dealer
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Mine had 6 miles on it at delivery, which is funny as numerous times different Ducati dealers told me they were required to put at least 10 miles on the bikes before delivery by Ducati.. but 22 miles is nothing, ride the hell out of it and enjoy it..
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