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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 03:10 pm |
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Work commitments meant that i no longer have the time to restore bikes so I decided to buy a "modern" classic in a Ducati Paul Smart LE which seems to nicely cross over between old and new, is accepted by classic fans but requires little for me to do  .
Myself and a fellow Smart rep owner joined the Ducati Owners Club for their Dales Dash Classic ride starting from Askrigg last weekend. Despite the grey and damp conditions we trundled out for a ride around the dales. You can find a gallery of photos here
A taster from the gallery below, I hope you enjoy the photos
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 04:10 pm |
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cracking photo's, roads look brilliant, looked like the weather was a bit dodgy though!!!
how do you find the riding position on the paul smart rep? i love the looks but the initial reports were that it was a bit cramped and hard on the wrists??
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 04:32 pm |
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iand wrote: cracking photo's, roads look brilliant, looked like the weather was a bit dodgy though!!!
how do you find the riding position on the paul smart rep? i love the looks but the initial reports were that it was a bit cramped and hard on the wrists??
the Smart is a genuine sport bike so position is very like the original, fine when you were 20 not so comfy at 50 Its not that cramped, i find the stretch to bars quite long and have moved the bars up a touch, you can also fit the Sport 1000 biposto bars which raise it again but do need a bracket mod to brake/cluct resevoirs, rasily done and a lot of owners have done this. I can happily ride it for a day, Saturday was hard but going across Swaledale and over Buttertubs on almost a singletrack track/road in the wet did have me wanting to stop
its not a softened off bike like a modern thruxton, you've got decent performance and its quite capable of modern knee down style riding even on the retro looking tyres and it will surpise many modern superbikes when you keep up with them
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 06:15 pm |
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A grand day out. Good pics.
I have a GT1000, love it. Maybe not a "cutting edge" modern bike but has all the modern advantages in handling and brakes and it goes like the clappers. Tried a Sport 1000 and loved it but most of my riding is touring and the GT just does that better for me.
Have the racing ECU and open termis for added bawoomba...
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Posted: Mon Sep 1st, 2008 10:04 pm |
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triumph5ta wrote: A grand day out. Good pics.
I have a GT1000, love it. Maybe not a "cutting edge" modern bike but has all the modern advantages in handling and brakes and it goes like the clappers. Tried a Sport 1000 and loved it but most of my riding is touring and the GT just does that better for me.
Have the racing ECU and open termis for added bawoomba...
I've got Viper cans on my 750ss. Quiet Ducatis are just plain wrong.
I do like the look of the new Paul Smart rep. The GT1000 is nice but too wide for me and I couldn't slot it in behind my front hedge.
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Posted: Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 05:52 am |
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the gt gets the twin cans which makes it wide, if you read up on how and why the SC range was designed you'll find that Terreblanche knew that the combination of modern, wide tyres, twin shocks and exhausts would look too wide hence why the Smart and Sport 1000 had shock one side, twin pipes the other. Not to everyone's taste but kept the lines slimmer.
I like the GT, its far more usable than a Smart and a few of my mates have them as touring bikes.
Scotduke you may want to check out http://www.ducati-upnorth.com/forum/ its also home of the Scottish Ducati club
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Posted: Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 08:03 pm |
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| My son-in-law has the sport classic and I find the riding position fine, even at 61. However my Duke is a pain in the arse to ride as it gives nothing to comfort, the tanks too long, bars too low and footrests too high. But when it comes to music, the contis on my bike beat his by a long chalk.
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