Panigale gone...

[Panigale]

With a heavy heart, I watched the Panny as it was ridden away by a young man (22) who turned up, haggled hard and paid in £50 notes.
I decided that as I do fewer and fewer track days the 1199 was simply not being extended enough on the UK roads and so sold it to an ex-work colleague's son.
Replaced it with 2 bikes, a 2013 Aprilia Tuono V4 APRC and, as of tomorrow, a 2011 Ducati 1100 Hypermotard.
Liking the V4 loads, a still-very fast indeed streetfighter you can use far more often with street gearing, riding position, etc.
The Hypermotard is partly because the price is silly low, but I kinda like the idea of a simple, air-cooled, big-inch v-twin with 70s engine technology, fettled and modified over the years to run sweet, efficiently and quite quickly. It looks as funky as hell too.
Let the fun begin, before we get the monsoons and minus 8!
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Panigale S

[pinkyfloyd]

Does that mean you will be changing your name to "Panigone" now?
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[Panigale]

Good idea. Or Tuonohypermotard.
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Panigale S

[arry]

Or just tard for short

[P.]

I'd not buy the V4, purely due to Aprilia's current horror stories with valve seats

Nice bikes though!

[Rogerborg]

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[Ichy]

And a sports bike is a bike used in sports not to find the nearest hamburger. They are all stylised replicas, get over it.
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[P.]

What about this?

https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2012-Ducati-Streetfighter-848.jpg

[pits]

[P.]

Sorry, skim reading Even Ducati are on the list of streetfighter scumbags?

[dave666]

[pits]

[Ichy]

[garth]

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Well, that love affair with the Panigale didn't last long..Couple of months... No wonder you didn't do many tracks days on it.

Go on, you can tell us...How many miles did you put on it?
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I'd always taken 'streetfighter' to refer to a bike's suitability for urban use - so quicker/lighter steering, no fairings needed because of slower speed and possibly down gearing etc.

I don't see that it being made like that from the factory or because you've smashed up your sports bike and decided you want a chance should make any difference personally.

[_Iain_]

[smithyithy]

[1cyl]

With the exception of the Ducati. I always thought a streetfighter was any custom/special build that was featured in, or worthy of featuring, in the pages of streetfighter magazine.
And some of those builds were bloody good.
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