Ducati Revs NE 6-1-09

[FirstDuc-1098]

great day at NHIS today, plenty of Ducs in attendance including more than a few Desmosedici's


My 1098S (the one on the left)


other members there post up some pix in this thread

[FirstDuc-1098]

video of my first follow the leader thru the temp turn 1 and 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5XvnXV-0_Y

[jtaylor719]

Leslie from BCM had 2 in his garage, Habib Khoury (sp?) had the other one shown in your pic.

I watched Scotty ride by him on a school bike with Alex in tow on the Streetfighter (after they both sailed by me under the treehouse).

They're certainly nice, but at $72k I'd rather have my garage filled with bikes.

[Wishbone]

That "might" be a couple more dollars worth of bikes than those garages are used to

[a13x]

I watched Scotty ride by him on a school bike with Alex in tow on the Streetfighter (after they both sailed by me under the treehouse).

Habib was there? Damn I would have liked to meet him.

[Mr Bread]

Looks like you guys had a great time!

Nice Bikes!

Anyone notice how many people had frame sliders on their ducati's?

[jtaylor719]

Habib was there? Damn I would have liked to meet him.

I was in garage 17n and he was next to us (towards the track). That's his superbike in the pic as well.
You were moving right along on the Streetfighter. I was noting your foot position and clearance of the pegs going through 9 - any problems with it scraping?

[a13x]

You were moving right along on the Streetfighter. I was noting your foot position and clearance of the pegs going through 9 - any problems with it scraping?

No, I didn't scrape the pegs at all, why was it close? I've scraped the pegs on a regular 1098 before but that was on the Pirelli DOT Race Rubber and the Streetfighter was on street tyres (even thou I think highly of the Pirelli Corsa III's for trackdays). So I didn't want to push it too hard and wad JayRoot's demobike. Would probably be a bad time if Jay had to call Michael Lock (Ducati CEO) and tell him I piled one of their bikes... seeing as how I left Ducati and all last year Thing was spinning up the rear a bunch as it was so didn't want to get too hot in the turns and lose the front or something.

Fun bike. Been a while since I twisted the throttle on a 170hp+ bike. Forgot how fun that is.

[jtaylor719]

Didn't appear close at that point, but didn't know if it was earlier in the session. Looks like a fun bike!