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Old 10-01-2008, 07:59 AM   #21
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Gimme one of those, I can guarantee you I'd have track plastics, race rails and a no fucking mercy attitude on the track. I know that aint even CLOSE to a cheap bike, but in the hands of a skilled rider, would MURDER anything and everything else on the track.
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Old 10-01-2008, 02:04 PM   #22
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Too much $$ for my blood BUT sure ...if I had the means I'd be rockin' that bike !!
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Old 10-01-2008, 03:34 PM   #23
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Old 10-01-2008, 05:10 PM   #24
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I love the questions at the end....If I could afford a $70k bike, I would give a flying fuck how much shipping would cost.

$70k bike. No problems. $750 shipping? Ooooh, that's just too much.
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Old 10-01-2008, 07:17 PM   #25
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You have a job now, you can start saving for it
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Old 10-02-2008, 06:20 PM   #26
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Nice bike.....for a museum. At $60K that thing will never get put on the track. It's a show bike that's it. Nice to look at but not practical. I'd rather buy a 1098R, mod it to WSBK specs and have money left over for 100 track days.
But it would be sweet.
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Old 10-04-2008, 02:59 AM   #27
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I saw a 1098 sitting outside a bar tonight. AQssfucks.
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Old 10-07-2008, 01:17 AM   #28
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I know that aint even CLOSE to a cheap bike, but in the hands of a skilled rider, would MURDER anything and everything else on the track.
Thoughts consistent with what motorcycle.com noted...

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Get hard on the throttle, and the D16 romps forth like a Gixxer on nitrous! It shows itself to be quite torquey but then comes on with a wicked surge past 10,000 rpm that inhales literbikes on straightaways like they are 600s. Every straight, no matter how short, becomes a passing opportunity.

The Desmosedici is like a barely tamed wild animal. It’s highly visceral and with an intensity that threatens to overwhelm a rider’s senses. It sounds downright angry on trailing throttle.

The most mind-altering aspect of the D16RR is the part when the gloriously wicked V-Four comes on cam and hurls itself into the next corner with a 14,000-rpm wail'

No matter the gear, the Desmo’ pulls ferociously and demands full attention. Shifts from the cassette-type six-speed gearbox are thankfully smooth, as info from the LCD bar-graph tach is impossible to take in during the bike’s banshees-from-hell increase of velocity.
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Old 10-07-2008, 01:28 AM   #29
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It went for 70 grand, I thought they usually went for closer to 90? It was one by a 0 bid history bidder so it's probably a 14 year old trying to pay with hopes and dreams.
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Old 10-07-2008, 02:01 AM   #30
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For those ordering early, owning a 999R, the price was $65K. Later it was raised to $72.5K.
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