Tank Slap - Motorcycle Forum

Well as of today I am the new owner of a 2003 Ducati 999s, went to look at it last Sunday and that was it, absolutely fantastic nick and a host of extras !! mainly BST Carbon wheels !! full 57mm Termi exhaust system ,PC111, clutch etc etc. A quick blast back today down the M4 back home, things to change already, need either a grippier seat or at least some grippy tank pads, the seat is very slippy. Didn't like the position of the pegs so may get some rearsets apart from that not a lot . Oh and the mirrors give the worst view ive had so far on a sportsbike
Only pic I have so far will take some more tonight

Lovely, only gutted I did not get to see in person, plenty of time for that

beautiful and carbon wheels = awesome

I do like those. Looks in good nick as well.

Very nice Mick. A very impressive stable now with the multi, Blade and 999.

Work hard, play hard I say. Enjoy them all

Nice! Looks comfy

That's nice. One bike I would love to own, there is something about the stacked headlights I like.

Is it the later model with the fabricated swing arm Mick or a cast swing arm ?

Blade wrote:Is it the later model with the fabricated swing arm Mick or a cast swing arm ?

Mine has the cast swingarm, done a bit of research and I think the black swingarm is from 05 onwards. Looks like a good mod to do but I think it's pretty hard to get hold of one. Something to think about for next year maybe.

Just gave it a clean

Mint. Hopefully I'll get a closer look at it soon.

Need to change that red chain

Looks mint Mick and looking at the size of those chicken strips I think it's had one extremely careful owner. Very nice purchase. Enjoy it.

TO be fair to the previous owner he put some new rubber on he's only done about 200 miles on them.
Very happy with it, there a few stone chips etc but for its age its in extremely good condition, always fancied one so thought why the hell not !!

Nice bike, Mick. A man of perfect taste.

I did see your enquiry about it on the forum.

fantastic great looking bit of kit

Lovely, I have always liked them. They had a hard life as they were probably the least liked evolution in the Ducati range, even more so following on from the 916/998.

Enjoy it mate, she looks mint.

Nice!!!!!!!!

I think they were also the most successful Ducati in wsbk too

Blade wrote:I think they were also the most successful Ducati in wsbk too

That is mainly down to the 916 results being categorized differently to the 996 and 998.

I think the 916 on its own won about 2 races less than the 999 but if you add in 996 and 998 race wins it won nearly twice as many as the 999.

So the 999 is the most successful Ducati wsbk in history then