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Cheers Fireskull, Standard model but very well looked after, 4k on the clock and serviced every 1k, the old boy who had it before me was retired and probably scared to take it over 60 bless him :p
 
haha most probably, good find then, you've kept it well!
I don't remember the really light blue stripe on the fairing, maybe I've not been on a K6 before then :p
 
Took my Street Triple R out for it's first ever run. :)

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Managed to get it up to 150 miles on the clock today. Not long until it gets it's first service and I fit the twin Arrow cans that are sitting in the shed. :D

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The ER6 is mine, the photo hides the fact it's absolutely filthy, and my wing mirror was flopping around in the wind!

First proper run of the year (aside from commuting) and it was good, hopefully the next few weekends will have decent weather and sloth can finish breaking in his Triple. :)
 
Added some mods this weekend . next week a dyno remap at HM racing .

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Full Arrow exaust
Power comander 5
carbon mudgaud and hugger
rearsets
Titax racing levers
stainless brake hoses
Dark tint db screen
Eavotech tail tidy
r&g crash slider
And new dunlop sportsmart tyres..
Oh and also removed the rear pegs and painted the subframe black
 
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Picked this up today. Complete bargain. Very nice well looked after example of my favorite model of R1. They lost all the bottom range soon after this in the quest for bhp. It was bought from a shop with 3 months warrenty and they had just fitted the can, levers, discs, pads, chain, sproket, tryres, crash bungs, bar ends. All really nice little mods that add up to a pretty penny.

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Draeger said:
Lovely.

Have you still got the Duke?. :confused:
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No, got rid of that. I tried to get on with it but just couldn't get into the whole vtwin thing. It sounded great (with ear plugs) looked amazing but no matter what I did I just couldn't get on with the handling. It was just so top heavy and found myself fighting with it to go round corners.

A trip to Maxton improved it but after several conversions with them about how I cant get it to handle like my old R1, he just came out with the obvious. "If you want a bike that handles like an R1 get another R1". I had a 2001 R1 that had pretty much BSB spec suspension and it handled better than any bike I ridden to date. Compared to the 999 my R1 was so flickable and quick, and very composed thanks to the quality damping.

A fair bit of owning a bike for me is I enjoying working on them as well. And with the Duke if its anything other than Ducati service history it isn't worth the paper its written on. Very frustrating.

I ended up sticking the Duke up for sale and within 2 weeks I had sold it for more than I bought it. So cant really complain.

I did look a few newer R1s but I didn't like the look of the new crank ones and the early ones although great to look at just lacked the mid range of the early ones. I was all set on finding an original white and red 98 model until I saw this. The price was right, all the brand new extras were things I would actual buy and fit myself so it seemed a bit of a no brainer. Come summer ill get the fork internals replaced by Maxton and fit a new race rear shock and then that will do me for now :D
 
Strange you should say that about the Duke and V-Twins feeling "top heavy" and thus affecting the handling, kidloco. The Mille is renowned for feeling a little "top heavy" but by god, it's the best handling thing I've ever planted my backside on. I can only think of two occasions when I've managed to get it really out of shape, once on the track at Knockhill on my 2nd ever lap which was purely down to being too cocky for a track virgin and once on the road about 3 years ago whilst being tailed by a mate on a Blade RR3 which again, was down to my own silliness at the time. :cool:

Rest of the time it's been rock solid. I've had goes on a few much more modern and recent bikes which allege to be hugely better in the handling stakes than a 10 year old bike like mine and was left unimpressed. So yeah - good idea to stick with what you know, your benchmark for handling sounds like the R1, mine is the RSV. And yeah, twins are an aquired taste as I've said tons of times before. You either fall in love from the word "Go" or not. 99.9% of folk who get a twin for the first time and initially tell people "Hmmm, I kinda like it but I'm not sure, will need to get used to it" end up selling very soon because they never get used to the way they ride compared to an inline 4. I was 5 mins in the saddle when I bought mine and had already made my mind up that twins were for me forever!!.

Anyway, enjoy the R1, looks like a keeper. Curious, did you trade in the Duke for it or sell it privately then buy the Yam?.

I'm still undecided as to whether to sell up this summer. New baby arrived 2 weeks ago, I'm cycling more and more now in my spare time, both mountain bike and road and the Mille gets fired up and taken for a spin maybe two or three times in a 3 month period. Hardly worth it. But I know for a fact that if I do sell, I'll miss it like hell. :(
 
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