Posted this in the introductions forum too, but figured the Texas forum would be good as well. I'm stoked to join your ranks.

Just put my down payment on a 696 Monster yesterday. I had to get the Dark, I've been lusting after the Dark for years! The dealer didn't have any so they put it on order & will call me today to give me an ETA.

I currently have a motor swapped Honda Ruckus project that has been my toy, but I'm glad to have a full size MC to add to the stable now. I've been riding for 3 years, and am stoked.

Here's my Ruckus, love it or hate it, it's mine & I dig it:

I may have seen that Ruckus on SoCo when I was living in Austin. Welcome to the board.

Btw. Check out the pokey spotted thread in the NMC section. It has a Ruckus club from Osaka.

Welcome!! Make sure you check out Ming's on wednesday's. I am in San Antonio and every once in a while I get up there on a wednesday.

Wasabi

welcome man!  the ruckus seems like a lot of fun nonetheless!  let's see some pics of the dark when you get her!

Thanks for the welcome! The Ruckus is TONS of fun. It's fully built motor - stroker crank, big bore piston, cam, port & polish, big carb, pipe, CDI, clutch, etc It will really move for a scooter.

Ducati Austin is still trying to locate my Duc, I'm really antsy as I'm sure you can imagine. As much as I told the wife no mods, she knows I'm a liar, I'm already trying to figure out how to convince her I need some stuff  It's a sickness.

Paint the 696 to match the Ruckus.  Get the aftermarket seat (it has red stitching too) and then add the CF termis.  Of course, you'll need to paint the yellow shock too.

I negotiated some of the color therapy skins in my deal, so I have the bright blue color set to switch to if I want. You do make me wonder what an olive green would look like on the monster though.

Quote from: ChrisH on June 06, 2010, 03:33:55 AM
I negotiated some of the color therapy skins in my deal, so I have the bright blue color set to switch to if I want. You do make me wonder what an olive green would look like on the monster though.

Go to the color configurator.  There's an olive green color on it.  OD Green tank with everything else blacked out with the "bling" option and it matches the Ruckus perfect!

http://ducatimonsterforum.org/configurators/SSS_Configurator.swf

I was a month too early buying my 1100 so no tank skins for me!!

Thats pretty cool, I hadn't seen that 

Welcome to the nuthouse. 

welcome!

Thanks! Still waiting on the bike ducati Austin seemed pretty confident that they'd find me one this week, but tomorrow's Friday, so we'll see. If the wait is going to be much longer, I'm just going to see about upgrading to a 796. I didn't want to wait that long when I put the deposit down, but if I'm now going to wait anyway, why not. I know I'll be happy either way. 

I got a Black and Red 695 from them in '07 and waited for it one month. So, good luck. 

Picked up my bike last night, brand new from Italy! Very nice to have it home now, and pretty rad that it was put on a slow boat straight from bologna just for me! It rides great so far, I'm sure it will take me awhile to get used to it since I'm use to my ruckus and a friends 650 vstar. Can't wait until I can actually start to give it some revs after break in.

congrats!  PICS!