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Re: Ducati 999s reliability

Sean hates Ducatis too every time he tests one he totals it.
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Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Boeing is from Chicago, not Milwaukee
Re: Part of the Problem?

He's going to "lean" on your house, not "put a lien" on it.

I'm guessin' he eats a lot of frijoles and cheeps
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Actually, Harley is the Harley of Airplanes.
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Sure

The demise of V-Twins in racing

The increasing popularity of naked bikes.

The decline of HD styled cruisers...

Many others which have been stolen by MOrons over the years..

I should publish a book with all my insights and predictions. Sean could right the forward.. Yep that's the ticket

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Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

God that is hard to get used to. My brain always thinks it a misprint I was so used to "Seattle-based" Boeing.....
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Whatever, Solipsismman.
If you allow the validity of an entire Company's product can be summed up in one customer's experience then mine should be just as valid. I have owned Ducatis starting with Bevel drive singles. I have stopped on the side of the road ONCE when I overlaoded the charging capacity of a 750 Sport and ran down the battery.



I am blessed with a excellent dealer who I support so he will always be there. Not everyone has that I realize.



Ducati's are not for everyone. I'm sorry, but more expensive doesn't necessarily mean better in every department. Things like mirrors are almost a litmus test for Italian bike ownership. They look good, what else do you want? If they worked better they probably wouldn't look as good!



This gentleman has apparently had a bad time. I haven't heard Ducati or the dealer's side. I'm sure no one is happy with the situation. If it only took a few months for a manufacturer to exhaust repair possibilities and provide a new machine in a country without specific legal releif that doesn't sound too bad. For better or worse, right or wrong, Europeans do not have the consumer service culture or expectaions that Americans and Japanese do.

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Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Yeah, they had to move to Chicago to find people that could spell and actually THINK! Based in Seattle, the found morons like KPaul. They leave him to engineer the sanitation in the shythouse.
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Has the FAA approved fringed arm chaps for IFR or just VFR conditions?
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

kp, what u ever do to longride anyway? that guy LOATHES u. U pork mrs longride or what?
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

May Sean could left the forward instead of right it. Not sure you're qualified to "write" a book. Watch those homonyms the grammar police have a stong presence here. (no, presence aren't what you get at christmas)
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Dang! I didn't realize that you have to install a VFR in every HD airplane. That HMC has waaaay too much influence.
Re: Ducati 999s reliability

I am concerned about the all European bike comment. I have been looking for an Aprilia, mainly the Falco since I cant afford a Tuono, since they look good, perform well, and I thought they were reliable (I heard the Honda of European brands). Is this not the case?

(Please only respond if you know first hand, not if your cousin's lawyer's garbage collector heard from a lean collector)
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

It should be easier than getting used to thinking of Chrysler as a foreign car company.
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

But I love you JB! In a prison cellmate way only! LOL
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Funny you should mention that.

Guess which company opened a Japanese manufacturing factory in the 1920s.... that factory was later absorbed into the Japanese war machine and ended up making the torpedos that were used at Pearl Harbor? Did you guess HD? If so, give yerself a cigar!

(*Disclaimer, this is all from memory and the specifics are a little hazy. Anybody want to do the research and write a cool story about it?) -Sean
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

the way things are going i cannot rule out being in prison with u as a possibility. if that comes to pass, please take my miserable life. promise me?
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Anything for you JB. I'm sure things aren't that bad for ya. May be coming out there soon. We gonna have a good argument over some great tequila??
Re: Another great truth espoused by the great KPaul is validated

Good memory! The Japanese kept making the HD 750cc Flatheads on into the 50's. Called the Rikuo.
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