Yesterday I.. Saw a Desmo!

[Pickledswede]

Went for a ride with some mates and parked up in Loomies on the A272 next to a Ducati Desmocedici! Looked stunning, tyres were all blistered. Spent a while trying to guess whose it might be while we were looking at it and then noticed one of the indicators had been knocked and was dangling down

Anyway after a while this old guy with a really red face (as if he'd had too much wine in his life) who'd been sat by the door on his own in battered old looking leathers and helmet wondered over and had a play with the indicator. I was like surely that's not his bike... my mate asked 'Shit, what happened there?' the reply is 'Snapped off', after the blunt reply the guy gets on and fires the bike up. Jesus. That thing is so fucking loud! Exhausts have a beautiful booming note but I hated the sound of the dry clutch! Everyone was looking at the guy at this point as he casually turned the bike around and rode off, ignoring everyone.

Very surreal experience, and a strange and slightly eccentric seeming guy!

[L4Isoside]

i'd be pissed if mine snapped off

saw one at HG last year, seem a bit boring thought.

[SamJL]

I also saw one of these yesterday, sounded awesome! It was in Macclesfield, so I don't think its the same one, but it was lovely
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[Faldo]

I've seen them at MotoGP races doing pillion rides, they do indeed sound awesome, better than some of the GP bikes.

[Pickledswede]

[ms51ves3]

I'd snap the indicator on a Desmo if I saw one

[DrDonnyBrago]

Me and my brother also saw one yesterday... they must have been out in force - this was in Portishead near bristol .

[chris-red]

I've seen 4 now! alright one was at goodwood but still.
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How many were made?
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[c_dug]

I got overtaken by one on the M25 about a month or so after they went on sale, sounded awsome, tried following it but it was going waaay too fast (was on my GPZ500 at the time).

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[c_dug]

GPZ handled brilliantly to be honest so I wouldn't put it past the bike, plus who cares more about their bike, me on my £500 GPZ or him on a 40K desmo.

c_dug

Edit: Just want to add that it handled brilliantly considering what it was
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[Swim41]

Near Oban last year, a few of us were on a daft C90 long weekender. We were parked up for a ciggie break when a Desmo rounded the bend. The rider slowed, surveyed our collection of mangy steppies, and bestowed up on us 'The Nod'.
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[Villers]

This is going to be controversial but I dont mean to start an argument I promise!

Why on earth is a bike worth 40 thousand pounds of anyones money?
I just dont get it, why pay excessively through the nose for the sake of nostalgia? How does such a machine compare to modern lightweight thous and the like?

Im in no way a duclateri fan but to produce a bike and want tens of thousands of pounds for, doesnt seem like your paying good money for a good machine, it just seems like the usual limited edition scam! Can someone please educate me as to why its worth as much cash or what makes it so special?
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[Faldo]

[Alexio]

[Pickledswede]

[Flip]

So you saw a bike with a broken indicator and made a thread about it? Been a slow weekend then hey.

[Pickledswede]

[Noxious89123]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

It's a Race Replica of an old motogp bike.

It's an amazing machine.

It's cruel to ride them on roads.

https://image.motorcyclistonline.com/f/14846810/122_0902_06_z+ducati_desmosedici_rr_vs_1098r+front_view.jpg
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[Frost]

I recall a test in MCN where they put one up against the fanciest 1198, the £38,000 one with the fancy suspension, carbon everything, basically a WSBK for the road. Turns out the 1198 out handled the desmo and was a half second quicker round the lap.

No one buys a desmo because its actually fast, people buy them for the same reason people get a WRC replica subaru. They think their going to be living the dream of a race bike on the road, and have someone no one else does.

That old guy was probably sick of people gawping at his bike and asking him stupid questions about it

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[Jayy]

Scruffy cunt, battered leathers... an hour earlier, he'd pulled up in the petrol station to fill up his club 90 when a bloke in pristine leathers showed up on a spanking desmo, fills up and goes to pay. Dude on the club 90 realises he's left his keys in the ignition and decides it's time for a part ex, jumps on the desmo and fires it up, the real desmo owner hears/see's this, scruffy dude, in a speedy getaway, clips the indicator clean off on a pump. One hour later, he runs out of petrol at Loomies, so he chills out by a door whlist his mate in a white van comes to conceal the evidence.

True story.