Back Up Bike-Ducati Diavel

Joesmoe said:

It's not uncommon to have bikes that were built years before, being sold as new. The problem with selling bikes in the US is our market is fickle. Young 'immortals' buy ****** rockets, and the survivors buy cruisers, and the transition is mush.

A classic example was the beautiful Honda Pacific Coast PC-800 - advertised as "The motorcycle that wants to be a car" - with it's trunk, shaft drive, hydraulic lifters, full fairing. Manufacturing was started in 1989, and stopped the following year, with thousands of bikes going into warehouses, and sold over the next several years. The same thing happened with the second production run.

I once purchased an Aprilia new four years after it was made -- same story.

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IMFASTTOO said:

YES not popular and harder to sell oddball bikes that they sell at discount prices they did that with the Honda VTX 1800 and i saw new ones go for $5995 that was cheap

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Rick Morris said:

I never understood why the VTX 1800 got shelved. The VTX 1800 was an awesome bike. My friend that now lives in Texas had one and it prompted me to buy a VN2000 (another cancelled machine) to roll with the big V-Twin cruisers. I remember the Pacific Coast, a bit of an odd ball at the time. The Yamaha TDM 850 was a favorite of mine that really didn't do well in the states at all either. Some great bikes that got the axe for slow to low sales and were superior to others on the road at the time.

But xlr8tion, you should really but the Ducati. It is a brilliant machine.

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Rick Morris said:

I never understood why the VTX 1800 got shelved. The VTX 1800 was an awesome bike. My friend that now lives in Texas had one and it prompted me to buy a VN2000 (another cancelled machine) to roll with the big V-Twin cruisers. I remember the Pacific Coast, a bit of an odd ball at the time. The Yamaha TDM 850 was a favorite of mine that really didn't do well in the states at all either. Some great bikes that got the axe for slow to low sales and were superior to others on the road at the time.

But xlr8tion, you should really but the Ducati. It is a brilliant machine.

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Rick Morris said:

I never understood why the VTX 1800 got shelved. The VTX 1800 was an awesome bike. My friend that now lives in Texas had one and it prompted me to buy a VN2000 (another cancelled machine) to roll with the big V-Twin cruisers. I remember the Pacific Coast, a bit of an odd ball at the time. The Yamaha TDM 850 was a favorite of mine that really didn't do well in the states at all either. Some great bikes that got the axe for slow to low sales and were superior to others on the road at the time.

But xlr8tion, you should really but the Ducati. It is a brilliant machine.

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IMFASTTOO said:

I have a friend with the Diavel with $7000 in mods and he expected to beat the sportbikes and was very unhappy when he was passed by the local squids and was in shock when I passed him with my modded Rocket and disappeared in front of him and now hes buying a Roadster to modify with the 265 HP package

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xlr8tion said:

Not sure an unregistered 0 mile 2012 with a full Ducati warranty merits being called used?
Just looking for a quick muscle bike with a warranty and this is the best price in the country.

Here it runs an 11 sec 1/4 against a VMAX

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