Category: Ducati Panigale 1199S Tricolor
This sun is making me sad (bike thoughts)
I no longer recognise the advent of summer through the growth and shine of the multicoloured display of flora that can so resplendently decorate our British countryside. No. Now, it’s the unmistakably delicious sound of 12k/rpm combined with the rainbow effect the vibrant expression of leathers have at 100MPH. On the sea front this weekend at Brighton I actually saw a Panigale, which I think is the first time I’ve seen one since I sold mine pretty much dead on a year ago. It gave me a chill but in the same way one would […]
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Panigale has its swansong.
I’m lucky that I’ve been privileged enough to have owned, driven and enjoyed some incredible machinery over the years. Having spent 10 years steadily and incrementally building my experiences with cars, jumping onto two wheels, as a recent departure, has also been the most dramatic. I write this on the day of an agreed sale of the Ducati. I’ve owned it a little under a year and I can’t believe how it’s just flown past. A touch over 3000 miles, I’ve used the bike in as many conditions as I could have dared. But today […]
0Ducati Panigale 1199S Tricolore for sale – EDIT price change
My mood is so conflicted. I’m both mildly upset and also somewhat relieved. As my experience on the bike increases, so has my speed. And although I am more than confident on the bike, I feel that eventually, as this speed and enthusiasm increases, there’s a growing opportunity that I will eventually be gracing the cover of a newspaper one day. So it is with a huge amount of sadness that I place for sale my Panigale. Today the bike was properly detailed in such a fashion, I left the bike in the care of […]
0Rewriting the rules
It dawned on me last night why I’m so hooked on motorbikes. As I rolled home from another insane, blurred ride home, bike leaning on its side as it tink’ed its way down to a cooler temperature, I had a moment of epiphany that summarised this newfound obsession of mine. Let’s say, for arguments sake, that we are all subject to judgement based on what we write on blogs. So I’ll assume what follows is all conjecture and supposition. There are no rules. It’s as simple as that. After 22 years of driving fast cars, […]
0Where does one go from here? Ducati Panigale 1199S Tricolore
This is what it’s all about really. In less than 5 months from passing my motorbike test, I’d already reached the pinnacle of the Motorbike. The Ducati Panigale has been internationally recognised as a massive leap in motorbike production terms, having pushed the goal posts so far ahead it’s feared that it will take many years for others to catch up. With global awards being collected in the 100’s, the Panigale motorbike is the fastest, lightest, loudest, sexiest object I have ever used. When I first saw details of this bike I decided that my […]
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