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Ya know, there has been a lot of consternation, and fun ribbing, over the white vs red debate for the last couple years. I thought it would be fun to start a new discussion, in one thread, instead of bits and pieces all over. Here's my honest reasoning for my choice. As with any choice in life, YMMV.
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Yeah, yeah...Ducati is red, I get it. Practically every bike they make has a red scheme, and truthfully, I love red. Not just in bikes, but in general.
However...
Park a red SS next to a white SS, and most every eye goes to the white....because its eye catching and sexier. Not that red isn't sexy, just red seems much more common. I went to buy a red one, then saw the white in person (being prepped for someone else), and decided to wait 7 weeks for another to arrive. Could have bought red immediately, but didn't. That red sat there for an additional 3 weeks before being sold and that was during the early days when they were exceedingly hard to get.
When my wife walked in the dealer with me to pick it up, my bike was sitting straight in the entrance with 4 people mulling over it (thank God, it had a "Do Not Touch" tag on it). My wife asked, "is that yours?". I said, "yup". She said, "that's pretty. I like it a lot". In all our years and my many bikes, she has never uttered a word about the looks of any of my bikes, until this one.
When I park my bike at The Gap store (for those that don't know, this is a store at the end of The Dragon in NC known for many motorcycles daily), I will nearly always have someone walk up and start a conversation about the bike and they always seem to mention, "I love that white" at some point during the conversation. When I go to Meets with other bikers, my white bike gets most all the attention. When its parked at the Lodge I visit for those Meets, it gets drooled over more than any other. And it's not becuase it's a Ducati as there are a couple Ducati's there and one is an 899. Both the others are red. Last year, I asked one of the gawkers (female) why she was so wound up about my bike as she had stopped to look several times over the 3 days, she said "because it's the sexiest bike here. That white is gorgeous".
Chicks dig the white. I like added attention from chicks. Works for me. :wink2:
That's my two cents. Honestly, though, it's all good as long as it's a Ducati, and even better if it's an SS!
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Yeah, yeah...Ducati is red, I get it. Practically every bike they make has a red scheme, and truthfully, I love red. Not just in bikes, but in general.
However...
Park a red SS next to a white SS, and most every eye goes to the white....because its eye catching and sexier. Not that red isn't sexy, just red seems much more common. I went to buy a red one, then saw the white in person (being prepped for someone else), and decided to wait 7 weeks for another to arrive. Could have bought red immediately, but didn't. That red sat there for an additional 3 weeks before being sold and that was during the early days when they were exceedingly hard to get.
When my wife walked in the dealer with me to pick it up, my bike was sitting straight in the entrance with 4 people mulling over it (thank God, it had a "Do Not Touch" tag on it). My wife asked, "is that yours?". I said, "yup". She said, "that's pretty. I like it a lot". In all our years and my many bikes, she has never uttered a word about the looks of any of my bikes, until this one.
When I park my bike at The Gap store (for those that don't know, this is a store at the end of The Dragon in NC known for many motorcycles daily), I will nearly always have someone walk up and start a conversation about the bike and they always seem to mention, "I love that white" at some point during the conversation. When I go to Meets with other bikers, my white bike gets most all the attention. When its parked at the Lodge I visit for those Meets, it gets drooled over more than any other. And it's not becuase it's a Ducati as there are a couple Ducati's there and one is an 899. Both the others are red. Last year, I asked one of the gawkers (female) why she was so wound up about my bike as she had stopped to look several times over the 3 days, she said "because it's the sexiest bike here. That white is gorgeous".
Chicks dig the white. I like added attention from chicks. Works for me. :wink2:
That's my two cents. Honestly, though, it's all good as long as it's a Ducati, and even better if it's an SS!
You'll have to see the titanium in person and you'll like it, once you catch up to it on your white one. :grin2: I think they are all fantastic, share the Ducati red but different enough to speak to you individually. I bet if you had one of each color lined up next to each other at a meet or outside an establishment you would have to rope them off from the admirers, like a fine piece of art in a gallery.
