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27-07-08, 08:17 PM | #1 |
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The joys of Ducati ownership
So we set out from Bury, north towards the Trough of Bowland with the intention of going to Windemere.
Stunning weather... Amazing quiet roads... And catastrophic electrical failure! There isn't much worse than being stranded at the side of a beautiful road with a bike that won't go. |
27-07-08, 08:28 PM | #2 |
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Re: The joys of Ducati ownership
ooops sh#t! how did u get home?
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27-07-08, 08:48 PM | #3 |
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Ducati's eh?
Bags of spanners! Who would ever be dumb enough to buy one of those!
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Cheers Mark.
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27-07-08, 09:00 PM | #5 |
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A shame! Bah. You'd have thought there would be 3rd party Loom replacements about
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27-07-08, 09:03 PM | #6 |
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27-07-08, 09:17 PM | #7 |
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I got home on my SV, he got back in a recovery van. Breakdown cover eh... worth every penny.
That'll be you then. Turns out it wasn't as catastrophic as first thought. The recovery bloke reckons it's a knackered battery so a relatively cheap fix. |
27-07-08, 09:38 PM | #8 |
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Aye... How long since last run? Leaving them around too often tends to kill them. Also 1000 V-twins (I guess it is the 916-998?) take a lot of cranking juice!
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27-07-08, 10:07 PM | #9 | |
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What's the point of ducs though? They're still tarty.
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27-07-08, 10:13 PM | #10 |
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Careful Chris, your prejudices are showing
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