Great job explaining the cost of owning a Ducati. Me personally I just bought a 1199S Panigale with 8,000 miles. Owned it a couple months now. Had no reason to think about the oil so I went on a group ride last weekend and ran out of oil causing internal damage. 😢 Not sure what direction to go just yet, I'm leaning towards a used engine assembly with low miles. Either way it's not going to be cheap. Really disappointing to say the least but a learning lesson to check the oil . I'm also in California, Santa Barbara to be exact. Anyway, great video man. Ride safe
Jesus no way man? I’m so sorry. Idk how the market is but if there’s a used motor out there go that route, but man that’s the most important thing 😅 best of luck and ride safe man
I have owned over 100 Italian bikes, the first one cost me a few thousand to own. I realised that I didn't want to do that again but it meant changing my life. So I got into the bike trade and now I make money out of them.
Why can't you service the bike yourself? Oil changes are easy, tighten the chain is easy brakes easy everything is easy unless your dealing with the engine
@@BlackGirafe100 yup same as a car, but dealer are just going to charge the shit out of you, start learning how to work on your bike and you will save a lot of money and time
I just saw this. Monster 1200 is one of my absolute favourites it’s dream bike material I’d say and it’s hell expensive here in Malaysia. I had a monster 795 and yes that one costs a lot to maintain but it is reliable as a Japanese bike. Actually more reliable than my gixxer haha. Good video is love to see what it looks like now.
@@BlackGirafe100 awesome good to hear you still have it. I tested a monster 1200s in white once before and should’ve taken more time to appreciate it better. The new one is overall better but it’s just not the same.
Driven over 200k miles in past 6 years, all over the west coast, 20 plus trips San Diego to Washington since 2017. CA drivers, especially socal where I'm from (sd), are much better drivers than literally anywhere else. Also spent 5 years in Hawaii and they are much worse drivers than CA IMO. Anyways great video. I'm going to wait until I can afford to buy a top of the line Ducati outright and then know I can afford to keep it running. Thanks man
I don't really understand the big deal with the valve check interval. Why bother? It's out of warranty and all you are doing is burning 1500 bucks for them to look at them. Just ride the bike until you hear pings which will be never if you don't overwork your engine. Have A Nice Day.
I own one, it is a piece of shit bike, made by peasants, not engineers, not starting randomly, throws oil on my boots, nuts fallen while i ride it... impossible to drive around town. I will gladly swap it for a Japanese any time....
yeah, thx for the review and the economical advice. Now let's talk about what is expensive and what isn't. 1300-1500 just the desmo service it's excesively expensive. The rest of the services you've mentioned, could be reasonable knowing that as you said it's a high-end bike and a little overpriced. It REALLY is expensive owning a Ducati, very expensive. It's also completly fine if you choose to live that way, no coments on that. But you shouldn't be telling people how italians aren't that expensive and the rest of the talk, dude, they are EXPENSIVE
Don’t buy into the having to spend money to maintain a Ducati. A former Ducati shop owner & racer told me that valve adjustments, don’t need to happen as often as they tell you. Stay out of the redline all of the time & valve maintenance is nothing. I recommend the first two services but after than nope. If you want to keep services down, remove all the none essential parts. This way the shop can’t charge you for removal of components. Secondly, change your own oil, check your own air filters. Learn to do your own services. Don’t be a yuppie Ducati owner that won’t keep the Duc for years, be a Ducatisti, do your own work.
Its no more expensive than any other brand of bike. Change your own oil and check your own stuff. Get the shop you bought it from to clear the PC. Guys in Dallas clear mine and say it absolutely does NOT void any warranty as long as you use OEM parts. Buy the bikes if ya want em. Live life.
Great honest review of ownership, I’m riding my sons 696 monster , 11 yrs old , he has changed the belts twice since owning , and is due soon it’s valve clearance check , will let you no how that goes , the bikes been ridden hard and nothing has gone wrong except a new battery , and replaced tyres ,cheers shane uk 🇬🇧
Great info and a very good video. It was very informative and I appreciate it. It gave me a good idea on what I can expect after getting my bike. Thank you so very much.
The only issue I’ve had on my 1200r is I lost all brake pressure in the rear brake, tried bleeding it to no avail, I read on a blog that ducati is recalling certain models for rear brake issues. Taking it in soon to get checked. Other than that the bike has been flawless
Common issue, there’s a plastic hose that melts under head. Ducati just issued me a recall for that finally. I had the same problem, had to pay out of pocket to fix but I’m happy they finally issued a recall
Hey man, what can you say about 796? Planning on getting one but Im afraid about the costs and maintenance. Was thinking about 821 but 796 looks better imo.
Got to test ride a panigale v4s and fell in love with it instantly, the bike just spoke to me yknow? Only problem is I don't think I can stomach 28k for the S model, I might have to just stick with the base v4, what do you think?
@@BlackGirafe100 hahaha....you are sooo dump. people who cant affort ducati buy Honda anyway...i dont know one ducati driver who cares about the costs. Ask a ferrari driver if he cares about the costs.
