[748R]

Originally Posted by Soz

I did. And it still stands.

there were so many crazy offers...which one was the serious offer ?

[Smarty]

I think it go to $19538.21

[swara]

I agree that the R is a higher stressed engine, but its also blue printed and has lighter/ stronger metals in the engine. This is to alow it to safely rev to a higher limit and thus put out more power. Any engine when its used under race conditions will be more stressed. But used on the road under normal use they should both see the same distance. Unless it has an inherent fault.
I think the problem comes in when race tolerences are to tight for regular road use and thus longer service intervals. Ducati has done this before with old 900SS engines back in the 1970s
What concerned me was if the bike I was looking at was a one of godgeon pin sezure, that would mean the engine was run low on oil, or some other mishap.

I decided to go down to my local duncti workshop today. Seems the gearbox problems on 1098 R is comon.
The good thing is that we are going over to the Ducati factory on Monday to talk with a contact there and get some more info on the repairs they did on the bike and find out the cause and to also get some history on another 1098R im looking at. I supose thats the good thing about being in Italy seems that some of the better ducati worksops have contact within Ducati. Will keep you posted.

[Soz]

Originally Posted by 748R

there were so many crazy offers...which one was the serious offer ?

They were all serious at the time of offer.

Why not make me an offer to take it off your hands?

[cropduster]

Originally Posted by swara

I agree that the R is a higher stressed engine, but its also blue printed and has lighter/ stronger metals in the engine. This is to alow it to safely rev to a higher limit and thus put out more power. Any engine when its used under race conditions will be more stressed. But used on the road under normal use they should both see the same distance. Unless it has an inherent fault.
I think the problem comes in when race tolerences are to tight for regular road use and thus longer service intervals. Ducati has done this before with old 900SS engines back in the 1970s
What concerned me was if the bike I was looking at was a one of godgeon pin sezure, that would mean the engine was run low on oil, or some other mishap.

I decided to go down to my local duncti workshop today. Seems the gearbox problems on 1098 R is comon.
The good thing is that we are going over to the Ducati factory on Monday to talk with a contact there and get some more info on the repairs they did on the bike and find out the cause and to also get some history on another 1098R im looking at. I supose thats the good thing about being in Italy seems that some of the better ducati worksops have contact within Ducati. Will keep you posted.

the gearbox issue is inherent to the '08 model, the '09 has a stronger gearbox as well as a different version of DTC which works with the std exhaust as well as the 70mm carbon version and matching ECU.

[748R]

Soz...I did make you a serious offer...$27500...you low balled, no wonder Phil is cranky

[Soz]

How about $25k cash?

[748R]

Not for sale anymore

[Soz]

Thought you needed the cash? I'm offering C.A.S.H. !!!!!!!

[748R]

Yeah I did, but work has picked up and I was eventually going to replace it with an 1199. But the speedy boys did such a fantastic job I've now decided to keep the r and not down grade to the pani..