Scott Gardner wrote:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 06:15:54 GMT, Joseph Oberlander
wrote:


Scott Gardner wrote:


The only vehicle I've ever bought brand-new was a 2000 Ducati Monster
motorcycle, because that was the first year for the fuel-injected
engine, and that was a feature I really wanted.

(sound of drooling)

Okay - I have a weak spot for screaming edge tech-filled sportbikes.



Lol- the Ducatis are a lot of things, but "screaming edge tech-filled
sportbikes" they ain't. Half of their models are air-cooled, and
they're all 90-degree twins, in a time when most sportbikes have gone
the inline-four route. And it's only been in the last four years or
so that a significant number of their models have been fuel-injected.
But I loved mine like you wouldn't believe. The sound of an
air-cooled 90-degree twin exhausting through Termignoni carbon-fiber
mufflers still gives me goosebumps.

Well, looks has something to do with it as well - the Italians - they
have "sexy" down pat - fmor their cars to their bikes - jsut grogeous
to look at.

Tech? Gimmie a CBR. Honda makes soem wicked toys that we unfortunately
don't get here in the U.S.