Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
If dealers end up with too much p/x stock it's got to effect used values.
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Get a test ride on one Kwacky, if nothing else a good afternoon out. I would be very interested to hear your opinion on one after a test ride.
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
I doubt they would let me near one if I rolled up on my battered kwak
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Great idea that Blade, I could do that,:Blade wrote:Book it over the phone.
Book a test flight over the phone.
Then turn up on my battle-scarred 675 with her track trim.
Watch the Dealers panic & swiftly backtrack..
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Its what I've done when I've been for a test ride. I wouldn't worry want you turn up on just go for it I say.
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Blade wrote:Change gears using the buttons on the left bar. No need to use the clutch lever or gear lever whether going up or down the box.
Is that like a grip shift on the old Grifters?
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
That was on the right, wasn't it?
I got blisters on my thumb knuckle from the rubber guards at the inside edge of those grips.
I got blisters on my thumb knuckle from the rubber guards at the inside edge of those grips.
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
not sure i like the idea of that on the handlebars,prefer a foot shift,bet it would take ages to get used to
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
I don't think it would take long.
No different to getting used to a autobox car.
Seriously considering seeing out my last few years of sportsbikes with a Panigale. Not a new 1299 mind.
No different to getting used to a autobox car.
Seriously considering seeing out my last few years of sportsbikes with a Panigale. Not a new 1299 mind.
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Spoke with Ducati today at the NEC show and its total bollocks by MCN and not a gear shift its just an up and down toggle switch for changing settings in the electronic settings for tc and abs.D6 wrote:Blade wrote:Change gears using the buttons on the left bar. No need to use the clutch lever or gear lever whether going up or down the box.
Is that like a grip shift on the old Grifters?
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Now there's a thing... I reckon we should sell the info from tankslap roving reporters to MCN, it would be a lot more accurate...Blade wrote:is total bollocks by MCN
I'd love to see a foot operated DSG / paddle style gearbox.. Absolute perfection would be to combine that with the ability to override back to a full manual box..
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Isn't the foot operated quickshifter which works up and down pretty much the same thing as a foot operated paddle box?
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Tbh as nice as the 1299 is it is expensive at £16695 for the base model imo. You can get a HP4 for that with better electronics, better components, more carbon and forged wheels etc...
It is a premium product and extremely desirable but at that money for the base model its bad value IMO, however saying that expensive price tags haven't stopped Ducati selling sports bikes before. I guess if you want a Ducati you want a Ducati.
It is a premium product and extremely desirable but at that money for the base model its bad value IMO, however saying that expensive price tags haven't stopped Ducati selling sports bikes before. I guess if you want a Ducati you want a Ducati.
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
Journalists got to ride them yesterday. Looks more stable than the 1199.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXPgq1g_PdY#t=86[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXPgq1g_PdY#t=86[/video]
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Re: Panigale 1299 First Pics & Details
have they done anything to the suspension then ??, when I looked at it at the bike show it looked no different unless they are subtle changes.
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have they done anything to the rear suspension as this is where I was having the most problems with mine ?
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