I was riding home from work today, and I was behind a car with a little boy in the back seat.  He was probably around 6 years old, and as soon as I pulled up behind the car, I saw his head pop up and look at me with a HUGE smile on his face...for about 4 miles.  When I got a chance to get in the other lane, I pulled up beside the car, and the boy had a fist and was twisting his wrist, so I gave the bike a nice rev ( I think I startled the father  ) and the boy started clapping and laughing.  I continued on my way with a smile for the rest of my ride home.
The boy probably didn't have a clue what a Ducati is, but I could tell he knew good style when he saw it.

I pulled up to a light and the guy on the next lane rolls down his window and says "hey you stole my bike!"  and i told him "you have great taste!"

Unspoken but just as good.  I was on my way to work on the highway and was coming up on a Porsche Boxter  and I was just about at the drivers door (windows up) he gives me a . I returned the gesture as I went by.

Had a good one yesterday.  Young guy  (18 or so) with his girlfriend gets out at the gas station and says man that thing is just beastly.  I thanked hime and he asked me how much it was. I said not as much as you think its almost 8 years old.  His reply was my favorite thing anyone has said about my bike. "Yeah, but it looks 10 times better than anything new out there!"

I was walking out to my car when I notice a family getting into their car parked over near where my Monster was parked when I heard the woman's teenage son say "It's a Duuucati!!" (insert sound of awe)

I was just within earshot - I was so proud!!!  [moto]

I met a gentleman at a coffee/bookstore last night. He came over to see the bike and was telling me about how he used to ride a ducati  back in the day....

After about 15 minutes of talking to him, he shifted so that he was between me and the bike, facing away from it. I gave him an odd look, and he said, "I couldn't bear to look at it anymore, I promised my daughter I wouldn't ride a motorcycle anymore and looking at this one is like looking at a naked woman." 

I'm the one with the Sharpie bike -

My favorite response is what usually happens -
their mouth opens a bit, their forehead crinkles, then the corners of their mouth start to go up, their eyes get bigger, then it's all out excitement and confusion!
THEN they find out it's a CHICK'S BIKE, and their head starts shaking back and forth!
NO WORDS come out during all this time.
Making people speechless with my motorcycle... PRICELESS!
Actually all you kind people on DMF have given me the greatest compliments, and I truly thank you!

Quote from: twistdchick on June 04, 2010, 11:21:12 AM
I'm the one with the Sharpie bike -

My favorite response is what usually happens -
their mouth opens a bit, their forehead crinkles, then the corners of their mouth start to go up, their eyes get bigger, then it's all out excitement and confusion!
THEN they find out it's a CHICK'S BIKE, and their head starts shaking back and forth!
NO WORDS come out during all this time.
Making people speechless with my motorcycle... PRICELESS!
Actually all you kind people on DMF have given me the greatest compliments, and I truly thank you!

The compliments are well deserved.  You have a "sharp" looking bike.

"makes your penis look bigger"



perhaps that was an insult.

I had to stop the other day on the road for a motor vehicle check, and as the cop checked my inspection sticker, he looked up, made eye contact, smiled, and said "nice bike".      Nice COP

Does it count if you aren't around to HEAR the compliment?  Because (attention women riders) - you can SOLICIT compliments, but they'll be behind your back!
Let's say you're coming to a dreaded road construction area.  Boring.  Make it more FUN!  As you approach the "men at work" or as I call them - "one man working and 5 men watching him work"... do a nice blip to a downshift to get their attention. Then go slowly by them, turn your head to look right at them, oooozzzing confidence.   Pull in the clutch and give them a little pipe snarl, and you're off!  You KNOW stuff's gonna be said!! (THEN AND AT LUNCH!)  It's a win-win!  Fun for you, and fun for them!
If you want to take it further, and if they're on your LEFT side, you can take your left arm off the bar and throw them a kiss, or if you're REALLY feisty, you can stand and give your ass a nice smack!  MAN it's fun playing with MEN!

All right - one more.  - said by a friend...   "You'd look good on MY monster!!"

Quote from: twistdchick on June 06, 2010, 01:40:29 PM
<snip> MAN it's fun playing with MEN!

Fun on this side of the fence too...


Ok, here's one more story:

November 2004:  Was pushing my CR out of the San Mateo IMS motorcycle show after it had won 1st place in the Monster Challenge.  Grinning and thinking of how a trip to FL would be cool and all that jazz...

Steve (Tigre) is pushing his Tiger-Monster behind me.  We get outside the building and he puts his down on the sidestand and runs up to me and asks me to stop pushing.  Ok, I did.  He asks if I could start it up.  Ok, I do.  Blip the throttle a few times, no big deal...

His response:  "Damn, I didn't think it ran." 

Leaving the bar after work the other day (not drinking just socializing) and as I'm putting my gear on three drunk guys stumble out and one goes "Ducati, thats the real deal right there" First compliment i have gotten on the bike.

Cool. Even drunk they know it's the real deal. Good drunks!!

I had a drunk guy get on his hands and knees to check out my bike.  He studied it like it was alien technology; "dude, this is out of this world!"

I have two:
   When one of my friends saw my 696 for the first time he told me "the more I look at it, the more I think it will transform into some thing else."
   My father owns an HD Sportster. I let him take my Ducati for a ride. He came back with an ear to ear grin. I asked him, "what do you think of it?" The first words out of his mouth were: "it's fast." followed by "I can't believe how smooth that engine is. It definitely didn't come out of a Harley factory." A week later he complained to me that my bike spoiled him. He missed my acceleration when he rode the HD into work.