[seruzawa]

Personally, I think that if I wanted to live in the rarefied (or is it just thin low-on-oxygen) air of the white wine poser Italian bike crowd I would get one of those wicked looking new Benelli Toronados. Now there is one sweet looking rig. Oh heck. Screw the white wine crowd. I want a Toronado.

Its poser value over Ducatis is inestimable. You would have the snoots in their red leathers turning green. Or maybe get an MV Agusta. Heck, if you're going to spend that many $K to just go posing around city streets, may as well go all the way.

"Ducatis have become just so blase' don't you know, dear? And I do love that gold lame' scarf that sets off your Arai helmet so well. "

There should be a clause in any Ducati purchase contract that allows the manufacturer to confiscate any of Ducati's race-style bikes that spend too much time cruising on the boulevards.

 

[seruzawa]

Best bike is relative. I submit that riding a seriously race oriented bike on the streets is dangerous. In my experience riding race replicas I've decided that I don't like the lack of visibility from the too far bent forward seating and I don't like the poorer steering response in street situations from the clipons. I also don't care for the poor throttle response of the peaky powerbands of many of the fours.



I'll take a situpstraight naked bike any day over a Duc or a 954 or a GSXR or any other racereplica simply because I am more comfortable and more aware of the surroundings. Plus I can flick the bike much more easily with the wider bars.



An Aprilia Tuono would do the trick, I think.