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Nov 11th, 2011, 3:38 pm
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: notginrraw, AP, USA
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If Ducati were to ask you.......
If Ducati, Italy sent you the customer, a letter asking you for three (3) suggestions to improve the company product line be it motorcycles, apparel, etc, what would they be ?..
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Nov 11th, 2011, 3:41 pm
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Radar tends to harsh my mellow.
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Posts: 5,758
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ZDM
If Ducati, Italy sent you the customer, a letter asking you for three (3) suggestions to improve the company product line be it motorcycles, apparel, etc, what would they be ?..
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Reintroduce the ST series.
Put the Multi 1200 motor in it.
Make the bodywork as easy to remove as the 999.
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Mike
2006 999, 2007 ST3S, 2007 S2R1000
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Nov 11th, 2011, 4:43 pm
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Expand the mind. Not a fuel tank
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago, IL., USA
Posts: 8,773
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Make fuel tanks that do not expand
Bring back the dry clutch
See items 1 & 2
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Nov 11th, 2011, 4:50 pm
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Suffolk, Va, USA
Posts: 60
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How about 3 new supersports, 696,796,and 1100 !
Air cooled, fuel injected, fun to ride bikes that are easy to maintain !
Oh, and include a "S" model for each size ! 
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2006 999, More than what's needed!
1995 900 SS SP # 217
2007 Multistrada 1100 S
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Nov 11th, 2011, 5:13 pm
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Christchurch, NZ, New Zealand
Posts: 128
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gio999
how about 3 new supersports, 696,796,and 1100 !
Air cooled, fuel injected, fun to ride bikes that are easy to maintain !
Oh, and include a "s" model for each size !:d
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Hamish, ex Britten Motorcycle Company
'89 900SS: '95 cases, close ratio box, '95 front end with 5 spoke marchesini, '95 tank with paso filler, carbon Supermono fairing, Projector beam headlights, billet rearsets, carbon 955 Corsa tail, 944cc Vee Two kit, 916 SPS clutch, DP Cams, ported heads, 41mm FCRs, Spaghetti pipes with carbon cans, Ohlins shock, 1000SSie swingarm & marchesini rear wheel. Currently in motorbike hospital after Earthquake 
Plus
'95 900SS/SP: Bought May '11.
07 Aprilia Tuono: Bought Aug '11.
'06 GSX-R1000: Full Ohlins. Madness!! Sold Feb 11, written off same day!
'03 Monster 620ie: Sold Dec '10
'00 Aprilia Mille R: Sold Oct '10. Gone but never forgotten
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Nov 11th, 2011, 6:04 pm
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I have a button.. BITCHES!
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Greenville, SC, USA
Posts: 6,836
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#1: Would You PLEASE build a supersport with 666 cc's? 666 sounds mean and evil. I would like it to be red like the 2k models' red. Grey frame and BLACK fasteners. I DON'T want ANY fancy electronic shit on it. Just a regular white faced tach and speedo. I'd like the bike to make about 80hp. That's PLENTY for the twisties, and PERFECT for a track day guy such as Myself. I want it to weigh about 380 lbs. It needs to be thin. It also needs to cost about 8k. Can Ya do it? CAN YOU?!
#2: Would You PLEASE quit trying to be so Gee Dee 'avant garde' and 'hip' with the styling of Your bikes as of late? It's getting on My nerves.
#3: Would You PLEASE tell Your dealerships to STOP selling 'Ducati' T-shirts for $42? It's a tad much.
There You go.
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Nov 11th, 2011, 6:17 pm
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Posts: 900
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1. sell me an 1199S for $20K
2. keep the new wet/slipper clutch forever
3. price apparel in line with normal brands of equal quality.
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Current Bikes: Aprilia RSV4 Factory for the street
'05 Honda CBR600RR Track Bike
"The trouble with internet quotations is that most are just made up" - Abraham Lincoln, 1864
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Nov 11th, 2011, 6:20 pm
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 499
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1) stop making gas tanks that expand
2) Apparel thats reasonably priced. i can afford a $20,000 bike but I dont want to spent $50 on a tshirt
3) A true off road adventure bike
joe
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Psalm 23
2009 White Multistrada 1100s
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Nov 11th, 2011, 6:29 pm
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Mostly full of S***
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Norfolk, VA, USA
Posts: 251
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1. KISS - Too many different bikes out there now.
2. Like mentioned before, bring back the SS's. The 2003 800SS was a thing of beauty.
3. Dry Clutch, bring it back. It's what makes a Duc a Duc.
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04 749s *Erica
03 620SSie (RIP) *Rachel
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nove-R
The Ducati "Retard Eliminator" is the price tag.
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Nov 11th, 2011, 7:26 pm
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Fairfield, CT, USA
Posts: 861
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Dear Ducati,
I know it's be a shitload of time since I wrote, but you haven't replied to my last 31,648 letters, so I though I might try again. 
For Christmas, send me -
1. A superbike that will start every time, aluminum tank and have REAL 15K service intervals
2. An air-cooled SS 1100 with lasting valve guides weighing 370 lbs, dry clutch and Ohlins all around
3. A new ST model that has the 1200cc Multi engine, fully adjustable suspension, weighs 400 lbs dry, and a DP gel seat stock.
Oh, and if you could see your way clear to financing all of this at nothing down and 3% on a five year loan - that'd be a gas. 
Smooches,
C-Simian
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2005 999 s Hephaestus
2003 ST4 s ABS Senn a Petrarch
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