New Diavel Looks awesome.... But ehhh...The looks???

[junior varsity]

Bazinga

[duccarlos]

You can always take your 999S up to the Dragon, and have Yellow Wolf film you from his Gold Wing. 


Ducati 999s followed/filmed by Yellow Wolf -Deals Gap


deals gap on a goldwing/gl1800 by yellow wolf dragons tail

Listen to the scraping!

[pitbull]

the power cruiser market already exists.  They haven't created anything new with this bike.  Everyone needs to realize that a cruiser is meant for.............cruising...........and if it has power to boot then great.  Sometimes we forget what the bike is made to do.  There's no way this will ever be anything remotely close to a Monster or 1198 period.  90% of the people who live on this board hate cruisers and good for them, that's why there's sport bikes.  I personally like both and own both for the days I feel like clogging up roads and blowing my lines. 

yeah........that's not what I said but good job cherry picking a quote to suit your purpose. I said Ducati might very well create something new with a power cruiser/standard-sport, if it handles well. Certainly nothing in the power cruiser segment fits that bill so far. If this thing handles anywhere remotely close to a monster and has the comfort of a power cruiser, it could be something entirely new, despite your expert final and absolute decision to the contrary.

[Monster Dave]

So, I called a local Ducati dealer to find out when they plan to have a model to at least take a look at and the guy tells me that they aren't scheduled to get any until March, but that the bikes built for sale by Ducati NA for the first quarter of the year are already sold.

Not that I'm even remotely interested in buying one, but dang that's a lot of people buying something very new sight unseen.  

[zooom]

So, I called a local Ducati dealer to find out when they plan to have a model to at least take a look at and the guy tells me that they aren't scheduled to get any until March, but that the bikes built for sale by Ducati NA for the first quarter of the year are already sold.

Not that I'm even remotely interested in buying one, but dang that's a lot of people buying something very new sight unseen. 

I recall them selling pretty much 70% of the MHE900's that way as well as the 1 round of production Sport Classic's that way as well as the Sedici's for the most part...so it isn't THAT surprising really....

[junior varsity]

One of the locals (peeeetah from across the pond) already has the plate DIAVEL on his ps1000le, obviously for his upcoming purchase.

[Raux]

actually the entire run of MH900e was sold the first day online.

[muskrat]

yeah........that's not what I said but good job cherry picking a quote to suit your purpose. I said Ducati might very well create something new with a power cruiser/standard-sport, if it handles well. Certainly nothing in the power cruiser segment fits that bill so far. If this thing handles anywhere remotely close to a monster and has the comfort of a power cruiser, it could be something entirely new, despite your expert final and absolute decision to the contrary.

That's how it read to me and I was not cherry picking, just pulling out what I was responding to.  Anyway, who cares if you're not buying one - I'm not.  I stand by my original comment that this is not new but we can expect it to handle well, after all it's a Ducati.  And my opinion is NOT final and absolute as you may think it is.  I have owned a multitude of bikes for a multitude of reasons so I offered my opinion on that, too bad if you don't like it.   

[hillbillypolack]

by the way, just saw the price on a Termi system for this bike at $3,200 

Wow. I sure hope that's not the real price. But it doesn't surprise me. The recent bikes from Bologna are always too choked up and geared too tall right off the dealership floor. Yes, I understand it's meeting EPA standards but adding 3k on top of the MSRP (just to get it to run right) is ridiculous.

Re-gearing, Termi ECU, slip ons and headers cost $2400 for my lowly S2R now that I think about it. Ugh.

[muskrat]

it was from a dealer website where I got that price.  hurts to think about it.

[J5]

actually the entire run of MH900e was sold the first day online.

i seem to remember them selling 1000 and then deciding to make another 1000 and they took ages to sell

[pitbull]

the power cruiser market already exists.  They haven't created anything new with this bike.  Everyone needs to realize that a cruiser is meant for.............cruising...........and if it has power to boot then great.  Sometimes we forget what the bike is made to do.  There's no way this will ever be anything remotely close to a Monster or 1198 period.  90% of the people who live on this board hate cruisers and good for them, that's why there's sport bikes.  I personally like both and own both for the days I feel like clogging up roads and blowing my lines.  

my mistake..........nothing about your post suggests you cherry picked my quote and nothing about your post, even "there's no way this will ever be anything remotely close to a monster or 1198 PERIOD" sounds final and absolute at all.
I guess I just have comprehension issues................thanks for clearing it up for me.


and......if there is nothing new about the diavel, what other bike would you say is similar?

[muskrat]

my mistake..........nothing about your post suggests you cherry picked my quote and nothing about your post, even "there's no way this will ever be anything remotely close to a monster or 1198 PERIOD" sounds final and absolute at all.
I guess I just have comprehension issues................thanks for clearing it up for me.


and......if there is nothing new about the diavel, what other bike would you say is similar?

Sensitive type?       My opinion is that this is no 1198 or remotely close to it, for crying out loud it's a superbike and simply putting the engine in a "cruiser" doesn't make it the same besides no one has driven one yet....jury is out.  Opinions abound, keep yours and I'll keep mine. 

[pitbull]

Sensitive type?       My opinion is that this is no 1198 or remotely close to it, for crying out loud it's a superbike and simply putting the engine in a "cruiser" doesn't make it the same besides no one has driven one yet....jury is out.  Opinions abound, keep yours and I'll keep mine. 

and I never suggested for a second the Diavel would be anything remotely close to an 1198, so I'm not sure who your having that debate with and why you would choose to include it in post responding to mine.

and you made the claim that there is nothing new about the Diavel, but still haven't mentioned what bikes in which class might be similar.

I will agree with you that ultimately the "jury is out" until it actually arrives for test rides...........which is why I refrained from making any absolute type statements about what the bike will be.

[muskrat]

and you made the claim that there is nothing new about the Diavel, but still haven't mentioned what bikes in which class might be similar.

I will agree with you that ultimately the "jury is out" until it actually arrives for test rides...........which is why I refrained from making any absolute type statements about what the bike will be.

I'm cherry picking your post again. 

And I absolutely......wait, never mind. 

Diavel is in the same class as the Vrod, M109, Vmax and others.  They are designed differently (wow what a concept) but they are classified as power cruisers.