Yeah, cocaine is just so expensive these days…
To a lesser minded poster, I’d have suggested you stop there 
Mickey taking aside, I might dig it out. Have you read ‘No Logo’ ? (Naomi Klien) - Would be right up your street Tobi. All about the way Brands get into our heads and the way corporations behave. I like to think I am not overly into my brands but who am I kidding?
no it doesnt :laugh:
cos then you can get the same bike a bieber! 
Soft and Hard qualities - Ducati has plenty of both.
Japanese bikes(and German) tend to be all Hard Qualities with very little (if any) soft…
Simples! :Whistling:
Yeah, whatever!
I’m gonna get a new Multistrada because… IT’S A F*****G AWESOME BIKE OK? :crazy:
Yes but you just gotta love the Ducati it’s a bit like marmite!
I bet the guys on Ducati’s in Italy get the girls! Not the boys on the Vespa’s
I know which one I would go for!
3 days in rome, all I saw were scooters… and one triumph street triple… 
+1 to that. A week in Rome and it’s all scooters and triumphs. Cafe racer style bonnies open face helmet and belstaff ,anything else just ain’t cool enough…apparently
True. In the big cities in Italy you only see scooters! There’s so much traffic that you english people can’t even imagine!
Scooter is for fashonable and lazy people, bike is for dirty men 
Some of us can… it’s the same mentality with Athens
mind you,
same people who own scooters may have big bikes too, they ride them at weekends only when its nice and warm 
the biking community is massive in italy, not into towns.
they are a big fans of triumphs, they love them over there. and most naked bikes in general.
they love also harleys as they make the cars alarm go off 
This makes me so sad - I hope one day you see how lucky you are and you realise as time goes by to stop worrying about what others have and starting planning on what you want and how to get it.
I look at someone in a ferrari or on a brand new bike and i think - fucking good on him, i wonder what he’s gone without to get it, or what success hes had so he can afford it, he may not be able to afford it and that is sad, but if he can then good luck to him.
3 days in Rome only a couple of weeks ago and yes I saw a LOT of scoots but I also saw gixer’s, Kwaka’s, triumphs and loads of ducati’s, could hear the ducs coming a mile off!
@ Rixxy, I’m glad someone has the right outlook on someone having nice things, well done to them, I have a nice car and I get ribbed for it but to be honest I got it 2nd hand and it cost me no more than the brand new fiesta I bought a few years back.
I’d love a Ducati, why do people buy them, because they are fecking gorgeous bikes and sounds amazing.
I don’t what yo are all going on about.
You can buy a Ducati 750S - taxed and MOTed for £1650 (or what a year old R6 would be worth )
Here;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2001-DUCATI-750S-in-RED-/140958196936?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item20d1c364c8
Who said they were for millionaires only ???
Or you could not be interested in chasing after money… I don’t mind people having nice things, as long as they haven’t been earned on the blood and sweat or the exploitation of others - and let’s face it there’s a lot of people out there who have f*cked many people up just so they could have the posh car, luxury house etc - they are pricks and deserve their assets stripped off them
What I do find sad is the fact that we determine someone’s success on his bank balance and the things he owns and the amount of hours he works… I came across this quote from Everett Ruess recently and I absolutely love it and agree with it:
“Can one feel otherwise than contemptuous towards those who blind their analytic faculties by submerging themselves in work? For whether they know it or not, the pleasure so bought is falsely grounded on a complicated system of self-deception, and their lives are lies” (1934)
However, Comfucius also said: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
So it’s a bit of both really - if you are not working just to earn money and losing the chance to experience things in life, great. If your only goal is to work so that you can buy stuff and you end up missing out on experiences just so that you can have more stuff… then that’s sad. But likewise never judge your own life based on the lives of others.
As for Ducatis (see how I bring it back on topic?) - I already own a KTM and I think owning a Ducati as well would mean I ride the bicycle more often as they’ll both need fixing at some point!
Totally agree with your sentiments Serrisan… what’s the point in working all hours when you have no time to smell the flowers or enjoy your kids growing up???
All to afford a bigger Rolex, a house with more bedrooms or a huge 4x4 for the missus…
However really Mr S. This myth that Ducatis always break down… that’s 20 years out of date ( in fact I think it’s an excuse that people use who have lesser bikes and are jealous of the Ducati owners… sour grapes and all that…:Whistling: )
I love Ducatis and couldn’t care less what anyone thought about it.
They are a thing of beauty and sound amazing enough said.
Well the OP is a bit of a known tightwad so he thinks most things are expensive:)
Duck to avoid wrath of BlueLagos
(PS even more when he finds out Mrs J is about to collect a 4x4 at the weekend)
I own a KTM and it’s broken… therefore all European bikes break. Therefore Ducatis break. See my logic? 