skeptic_SA
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Buy a donkey Meneer
Thanks. I wanted to have a hand made feel iso a computer aided design.Looks very good. I would've done some of the work with cut-outs/stencils - but thats just my OCD
<--- This guy gets it.
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skeptic_SA
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The hybrid. KTM lovers gasp in unison...
skeptic_SA
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:wtf: Showing its cornering ability.
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pinball wizard
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Where's your pipe bro? Your neighbours must love you.
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SauRoNZA
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I’m very happy for them.
Great bunch of guys but my biggest reason for not buying a Ducati was the need to trek out to Somerset West and then not be supported by a proper dealership.
Ducati Johannesburg is amazing so hopefully this follows suit.
The semi partnership with Audi should also make for a great experience.
Discovered this a couple of weeks ago. It will be a showroom and a full workshop.
So I am currently contemplating trading up to something Italian.
SauRoNZA
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Anston the main sales guy is a very nice chap and next to BMW, Ducati is the best experience you can get.
They also have no problem with you riding just about everything in their shop and they do have everything available as a demo except sub models of the same thing of course.
Labour was also quite hectic at the Somerset West shop but might be better under their own banner now. They do have the optional DRP though depending on your mileage.
At the same time their service intervals are 15000km so it will probably balance out somewhat.
I just found the bikes that I was interested in a little underwhelming at the price and no quite up to the standard.
If you were looking at a Panigale or that kind of thing though you can’t really go wrong.
X-Diavel is also a very nice and very different bike if you can deal with that. Just wasn’t the practical choice for my needs.
Would have one as a second bike in a heartbeat.
SauRoNZA
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Hopefully a 2017 with the new gearbox?
It’s the only failing of the bike.
Assuming you like the Boxer motor that is.
Hosehead
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Arguably this is the worse time to be opening a dealership of the arguably costliest motorcycles
I remember when they were in Bo Kaap many years ago and my eyes watered at their pricing. The Diablo at the
Time was an inferior version of the Tiger at four times the price.
Not even Cayenne which has opened and closed in the Cape and is set to reopen yet again has done so.
There's a market for lower and mid range bikes more so than luxury high end bikes- I don't know who has the cash lying around.
BMW has full stocks of the GS - they all look like drones taking up all the showroom floor space.
Vespa scooters are also piling up outside the retailers in town.
Not even Harley could hold on to their two town prime locations within a 5 year period - two locations shut.
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SauRoNZA
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Best you put both settings in Dynamic then.
Ducati Diablo? Must have missed that model. And if you meant the Diavel how does that relate to Tiger in the slightest? Even then I don’t remember a Bo Kaap dealership and if there was one the Diavel didn’t exist at the time.
They were in the Waterfront next to Aston Martin when the Diavel launched.
But as for the money it’s been a long time coming and all comes from Porsche I believe so it’s probably a case of following through on plans.
That being said as a non-dealership satellite office Ducati has been doing very well and their pricing has become more reasonable in recent years from an ownership point of view.
They are still “exotically” priced any way you look at it and partly why I don’t own one as the quality wasn’t there and the features were also lacking while wanting more money.
Harley Cape Town never had two locations. They moved one location to another. Buitengracht Street to Somerset Road.
Harley Tygervalley is a completely different setup with different owners and very successful.
As for Cayenne I never knew they even opened never mind closed so that’s just bad marketing.
In my mind they just always operated Droomers as a satellite Cayenne office and can still supply any bike from Cayenne Jo’burg even now.
Cape Town market needs to be priced and serviced separately and accordingly I reckon otherwise you will suffer.
Can’t comment on BMW stock really but from what I’ve seen they’ve been rotated stock quick readily considering the market. But then I don’t really look at the GS.
Triumph I know is struggling from personal conversations with them and even skipping the import of some models completely unless specially ordered and paid for up front.
Either way Ducati have a huge number of loyal customers in Cape Town already who never liked the Somerset West setup that will float the boat I’m sure.
They’ll continue a smallish setup with low staff numbers and probably also the reason for sharing with Audi.
Technically they are just moving. Not opening a brand new operation.
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The thing is Ducati is not exotically priced anymore. The panigale is roughly the same price as Japanese and German top superbikes. The multistrada is about the same as a BMW GS1200. The diavel is about the same as other high-end cruisers.
But all of that means nothing really. I just want one.
SauRoNZA
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Start looking at extras and packages and you’ll find it quite a different story.
Multistrada doesn’t compete with the GS but rather the S1000XR.
Start adding luggage and things and you’ll find the pricing is very exotic.
More so when you find at the price it also rattles and squeals etc.
I’ve ridden all of them except the Panigale.
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