Nice to read you guys again

[Moronic]

Fascinating to see this place start up and carry on much as before.

Feels somewhat like home, even though I had only a couple of dozen (IIRC) posts on the old forum.

Been riding since '73 off-road, since '76 on-road.

Reside in Western Australia (that's a state, albeit a big one).

Have an 07 S4Rs, still stock and with just over 10,000km on her.

First Ducati, tho I've put a few miles on more than a few borrowed examples over the years.

Always loved em, never convinced I wanted to own one.

So far very glad I took the plunge.

Happy to stay known by my screen-name, hope that's okay.

Congrats to the mods etc on the re-creation. 

[ducpainter]

Welcome.

We'll call you whatever you like. 

[Moronic]

Thanks ducpainter. Great to be back.

[somegirl]

Welcome, and congrats on your bike, glad you are having fun.

My dad is from Perth, I haven't been out to WA recently though, mostly visits to Melbourne in the last few years (for work).  How's the riding there?

[Moronic]

Thanks for the welcome, misincredible. The riding here is not very interesting compared with the east coast of Oz, IMO. There are lots of straight roads, no alpine roads and no coastal-cliff roads.    But some nice scenic stuff where the road undulates and you come over rises and see the plains stretching to the horizon.    And beautiful forest roads down south. And relatively sparse population means less anal policing of speed than on the east coast, once you get into the countryside and off the major roads there. Plus even the major highways here are just two-lane blacktop after you get out of Perth, so you get to enjoy a big bike's overtaking strengths pretty often. 

Lots of people here ride i-4 sport bikes and I can't imagine what they do with them.    No racer-road twisties at all by east coast standards (I used to live on that side). The other big seller is Harleys - the number per head of population was higher over here than any other state in Oz for a while and likely still is. And that makes plenty of sense. It's nice country for big tourers. A Monster isn't the smartest bike for over here but this one feels so special to ride I don't care much. And there are some nice little curvy roads you can find. 

[somegirl]

A Monster isn't the smartest bike for over here but this one feels so special to ride I don't care much.

That's the important thing!

[Got Duc]

Welcome, glad you found us.