So I have the standard set of bikes (road, TT, MTB, track). At the end of the season I want to sell my TT bike and get a new one. My funds are limited. I could hang on to the TT bike for another season and just get myself a new Ducati S2R 800 bike (lower cc for lower chance of killing myself). I had to go to the dealer today to gawk at it. What would you do?
As a former ducati owner you could probably by a new bike with all the money you would save if you bought a BMW instead and skipped the valve adjustments every 6 months.
Get the Ducati.
Buy the duck but don’t puss out on the ccs.
That is one of the easier queries posted here in a while! You already have a complement of bicycles and you are looking at that beautiful piece of Italian machinery (and I’m not really into Italian machinery mind you - German for me thank you very much)?
GET THE DUCATI!
I chose the S2R and I’m happy I did. Since I can’t ride my kuota to work, riding the duc to work makes it a bit easier each morning.
Sean Cusack
www.RunRichmond.com
I am one short hesitation from buying the SR2. It’s a step down in size and power from my old Honda bike, but I think it will be easier to handle.
It’ll still be very easy to kill yourself on the 800. What’s top end… like 130 or so?
It’s really strange that you can buy a motorcycle for about the same price as a tri bike.
Guess the motorcycles must be way over priced. 
Standard set of bike? You have a few missing…
CX
Cafe Racer
SS MTB
Unicycle
Penny Farthing
BMX Cruiser
SS (assuming your track is set-up for track)
Road bike #2 (climber or crit master)
That should easily take over the Duc budget, otherwise…start outfitting them with SRM.
I want to own a standard set of Ducs. I just need to add a Hypermotard to my 916Bi and my MH900e
Buy the Ducati! You won’t regret it
Haim
I found the 800 to be plenty of bike - it will go well over 100MPH (and gets to 100MPH in a flash) and handles great. I sold a bored Fatboy and a custom 1200 sportster. I love harleys, but the Duc is alot more fun on a daily basis. It’s plenty of bike for me and I would imagine for most people.
Sean Cusack
www.RunRichmond.com
Richmond - Home of 2007 ITU Long Course Duathlon World Championships presented by McDonalds!
Buy the Duck. Get all the cc’s you can afford.
I have the S2R 1000 you won’t regret it.
fal7 in Houston
Wishing for the HyperMotard
For the last few years I’ve gone the motorcycle route instead of the bicycle buying route. OK, so the BWM K1200 LT was a gift from the girlfriend, but I just sold it in favor of Victory Kingpin with the Deluxe road kit (saddlebags, back seat rest, passenger floor boards, and some other things). Much different world than the BWM, but much more fun, easier to handle while cruising around under 60 mph (the K1200LT doesn’t warm up until you’re going 70 mph
Now I’m thinking of going back to the new bicycle route - once I can ride longer than 20 minutes 
You’d have to sell the TT bike to buy another one, but can keep the TT bike and buy the duck? What the hell kind of TT bike are you thinking of buying?!
Ahhh, never mind…not even close, get the duck.
first moto???
if so, don’t go by that new. you will probably drop it at least once (and by that I mean could be even @ 0mph) and it is a spendy proposition.
get a used one. hell for what the new s2r runs, you could get a 00 996: http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/mcy/372343406.html (not mine!)
and you won’t angst over every scratch…
but beware.
they are addictive. and so is the track. and that is a spendy proposition (my mag wheels should be here next week!). makes bike/tri racing look downright cheap. for example - I plan to do our 6 race series all the way through next season. That is ~$10-20,000 proposition.
but man is it fun:
g
Buy the Ducati, post pjorn pics here once you have done so.
You’re right about a few things including getting a used bike and how tri/biking is cheap. Compared to any other activity I do (water ski, jet ski, skiing, snow mobile, etc) tri is a bargaing. I probably won’t buy another TT bike for a while since I want a better road bike, and a smoking road bike for me is under $4K if not $3K. What can you buy in another sport for that? Not much.
My handle in a moto-forum is TwoWheelsGood
VStrom 1k, 8900 mile trip around the country last month.
Husky TE450
Yamaha xt225 (wife ride)
Cervelo P3C
Calfee Luna Pro
Calfee Tri (wife ride, never ridden…ever)
Cannondale tandem
Had a GL1800 on that list til I decided to sell. One of these days I’m gonna have a friend CAD a bike rack I can mount to a Givi mounting plate, so I can take that rack from bike to bike, combining both hobbies. VStrom is going away for a KTM950 soon.
Anyway, tri and cycling is dirt cheap compared to motorcycling.
My Ducati Monster is gathering dust in my garage. Any day that’s a good day to ride the MC, is a great day to ride my P3C.