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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris (Post 1651483)

Price? Service costs and intervals? Parts availability? Parts prices?

I'm going to play pedant with you here...

As a sort of 749S owner I would counter that with.

Hourly rate in the dealer where we take the Duke is less than the hourly rate at the Suzuki dealer I take my GSXR to.

The service interval is longer on the Duke than the SV

Parts prices on the Duke are about the same, IIRC the cambelt was £80 ish. Yes its a pain to fit and fitting takes a while, but then see above about dealer labour rates.

We looked at 2nd hand 749 Panels on Ebay, cheaper than SV panels were.

As for reliability I would say that the modern Monsters are a lot better than they used to be. Its like any bike, used regularly and maintained properly ( i.e not left in the garage and only got out on warm sundays ) its going to be fine.

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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris (Post 1651483)

In general fun per £ it's going to be a no brainer...

I'm not so sure. Yes it costs more to buy, but I bet it'll hold its price better than an SV will. Then you also have to factor in the fact that do you want to ride.

1. A piece of italian thoroughbred exotica
2. A japanese girls bike that rusts as soon as you get near a sniff of water

;)

Mine doesn't rust :-P And if it is a girls bike then the girl who likes that level of filth I really need to spend more time with :-D

I still maintain that you can be a total barbarian with jap motors and not get bitten, I know a bloke with over 100k miles on a GSXR750M, he generally "warmes it up" by doing a wheelie the length of the road and/or banging it off rev limiter a bit. You wanna try that on a duc?

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Originally Posted by yorkie_chris (Post 1651508)

bang:shock::D

Indeed. Don't thoroughbred horses get shot when they fall over? I want a bike that I can abuse, will be cheap when you get it wrong, and I'm not going to cry about when I fall off it. Hacks are ace :-D

the only italian bike i'd have would be a aprillia.

Why is there a picture of an S4RS Tricolorea in this 696 thread? It's Ducati misinformation I tell you!