Just test drove a 1098

[spydah]

HOOOOLLLYYY SHHHHIIIIIIITTTT!!!

The bike is sick. I ended up finding some nice windy backroads in marlborough/southborough and hooked up with 2 custom choppers, raked like crazy and fat 250s in the back.

I applied for financing on it... It would be sick to own this thing! Best part is I won't have to buy new gear. I should know by monday. Any suggestions one how to work this with my wife?

[wicked13]

Sell a kidney to pay for it? That bike looks super sexy.

[Tricky Mike]

Sometimes it's just easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission

[naked-daytrader]

Sometimes it's just easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission

+10000

[schleppy]

Sharp looking machine. I'm trying very hard to keep myself from buying a Hypermotard.

[Jim]

buy the wife a monster as a bribe. that's what some other jackass on a 1098 did

[spicy]

lose the screen, or at least swap it for a black opaque or dark smoked one.

yellow fucking overload...


also, obligatory

[Jim]

lose the screen, or at least swap it for a black opaque or dark smoked one.

yellow fucking overload...

+1
too much yellow. and that chart is pretty accurate. thats why i am forced to ride yellow bikes

[hoffmanas]

1098 are shit bikes ... only elitist ride em

[Brian675]

1098 are shit bikes ... only elitist ride em

I had to laugh after I viewed your profile and you own a 1098.
Agreed with the rest ditch the yellow wind screen.
But a 1098 is a sick machine, congrats on the possible future purchase. Hope you get good news on Monday.
Tell your wife you changed your bike to look like a 1098.

[naked-daytrader]

Any suggestions one how to work this with my wife?

The follwing is a true story and i did it while married to my ex wife back in 1998.....

I wanted a new bike so, being a married man, i talk it over with the wife. She's a dead NO on the issue....too expensive, just bought a new house...yada yada. A week later , in September, i took a day off from work and went out and bought a 95 FZR 1000 that i had my eye on, for 5500 bucks. I get it home around 10am, proceed to strip the bike down to 100 different pices in my basement. Later that day the wife comes home from work, after an hour or so she does some laundry downstairs. I'm lying on the couch watching TV and she comes back up the stairs and goes...'' what the hells that downstairs''? I go..''oh that???? pfft, thats a wrecked mtorcycle i bought off of my friend for 500 bucks, im gonna rebuild it for next to nothing over the winter''....she goes.....''oh, thats nice''. Then over the next 4 months i proceeded to put the bike back together every weekend.

Then of course 2 yrs later i put a brand new 2000 R-1 on my MBNA credit card behind my wifes back.......was divorced 4 months later, we mutually agreed we were moving in different directions..

[Crash Dummy Denno]

lose the screen, or at least swap it for a black opaque or dark smoked one.

yellow fucking overload...


also, obligatory

this chart hits too close to home

[Crash Dummy Denno]

The follwing is a true story and i did it while married to my ex wife back in 1998.....

I wanted a new bike so, being a married man, i talk it over with the wife. She's a dead NO on the issue....too expensive, just bought a new house...yada yada. A week later , in September, i took a day off from work and went out and bought a 95 FZR 1000 that i had my eye on, for 5500 bucks. I get it home around 10am, proceed to strip the bike down to 100 different pices in my basement. Later that day the wife comes home from work, after an hour or so she does some laundry downstairs. I'm lying on the couch watching TV and she comes back up the stairs and goes...'' what the hells that downstairs''? I go..''oh that???? pfft, thats a wrecked mtorcycle i bought off of my friend for 500 bucks, im gonna rebuild it for next to nothing over the winter''....she goes.....''oh, thats nice''. Then over the next 4 months i proceeded to put the bike back together every weekend.

Then of course 2 yrs later i put a brand new 2000 R-1 on my MBNA credit card behind my wifes back.......was divorced 4 months later, we mutually agreed we were moving in different directions..

awesome story - gets me everytime

[BCT748]

lose the screen, or at least swap it for a black opaque or dark smoked one.

yellow fucking overload...


also, obligatory

[spydah]

This explains everything!

[Jim]

this chart hits too close to home

no kidding

[Jenni]

well, this is semi-related... i just read this on Born:
Ducati is Recalling 1098, 1098S and 1098 Tricolore Motorcycles

[spicy]

^ well that doesn't sound like much fun.

[Manny]

Old news on the sprockets..... people have been swapping them on their own and talking about it since the bike was released....

[Jenni]

Old news on the sprockets..... people have been swapping them on their own and talking about it since the bike was released....

that's good news.
however, a friend didn't realize it until he just read the news regarding his own. the recent refresh saved him from a bad situation.

[Brian675]

The follwing is a true story and i did it while married to my ex wife back in 1998.....

I wanted a new bike so, being a married man, i talk it over with the wife. She's a dead NO on the issue....too expensive, just bought a new house...yada yada. A week later , in September, i took a day off from work and went out and bought a 95 FZR 1000 that i had my eye on, for 5500 bucks. I get it home around 10am, proceed to strip the bike down to 100 different pices in my basement. Later that day the wife comes home from work, after an hour or so she does some laundry downstairs. I'm lying on the couch watching TV and she comes back up the stairs and goes...'' what the hells that downstairs''? I go..''oh that???? pfft, thats a wrecked mtorcycle i bought off of my friend for 500 bucks, im gonna rebuild it for next to nothing over the winter''....she goes.....''oh, thats nice''. Then over the next 4 months i proceeded to put the bike back together every weekend.

Then of course 2 yrs later i put a brand new 2000 R-1 on my MBNA credit card behind my wifes back.......was divorced 4 months later, we mutually agreed we were moving in different directions..

Sounds familiar

[DucDave]

...practice saying 'prego' and 'grazie' and 'Amo la mia moto Ducati' and 'Mi dispiace mio amore!

Good luck Monday!!!

[spydah]

ITS MINE! Approval went through!

Now-a I gotta talk-a like-a im-a from-a Italia!

Oh yes, and step number 1 will be to get a smoke windscreen.

[spydah]

All this Italian talk make me think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TnzCiUSI0

[naked-daytrader]

ITS MINE! Approval went through!

Now-a I gotta talk-a like-a im-a from-a Italia!

Oh yes, and step number 1 will be to get a smoke windscreen.

Don't get a smoked screen dude! Why ya wanna dirty a beautiful peice of machinary up with little silly gadgets and odds and ends????? That's like buying an expensive mercedes and getting those little screw-in playboy door locks....

My 2 cents