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[bigduke6]

The designer, Massimo Tamburini has quite a pedigree, also designed two of the most desirable motorcycles ever. The Ducati 916 and the MV Agusta F4.

The 916 and 748 are in my opinion the nicest bikes ever produced, When I was working for Chevron there was a 748 in a local bike shop, hefty price tag at the time as it wasn't that old, £16,000.00 ............. very tempted at the time too, I even had the money but decided against it, but not all was lost I bought the Suzuki GSXR 750 Slingshot he had instead for a 5th of the price..... it was a lovely example and in red and white, not a common colour scheme at the time as the tank was nearly all red and the fairing with white and black dividing lines........ I was very lucky one time, I'd joined a ship up in Scotland and could keep the bike on board for the two weeks, on my time off did some routine maintenance and adjusted the chain as it was looking a bit limp.

On the Journey home the bike just didn't seem right at the back end, average speed was 70-80 Mph, the rain started to come at me Horizontal and then my lights started to play up as I only had full beam and no dip....... after getting blinded a few times by Truck Wa...rs, I decided to pull in and see what was wrong, couldn't find anything and the lights seemed to fix themselves so took it down an A road at a gentle 30mph, then a sudden increase in revs and no power.........the chain had snapped..........It played on my mind some time after that, the bike received new sprockets and a high priced chain and replaced the oiler. It was the end of any lengthy motorway journeys for me.

Thats one good thing about the one below you can't go too fast as you know you can't stop fast....