hi I'm Anthony Godin i'm a classic motorcycle dealer i'm going to go through some of my
favourite Ducatis of the last 20 or 30 years in no particular order these are what I would say are
some of the best value and some of the most underrated bikes currently available starting off
with Ducati monsters most of the monster range is pretty good but in particular the monster 600 is a
fantastic bike and really good value at the moment moving on from that 748 we know that 916 Ducatis
of that era are now you know very expensive quite hard to get a hold of especially the hot models
but 748s are still a really really good value bike loads of power a little bit more revvy
there are SP and SS versions as well so if you want to spend a little bit more and go for
something a bit more powerful that's in the range moving back slightly to a slightly earlier age
the v-twin bikes that came before them the 851 and the treble 8s they're also very very good bikes
to have right now they're really coming into their own great design lovely features to them
fantastic to ride and I think good good value in the current market
if you want something a little bit older than that 860 GT now bevel drive Ducatis are getting very
valuable and sort of becoming unaffordable for most people and so the 860 is a good version to
have you can find sports versions of them that have been modified slightly admittedly they're
not desmodronically valved so they're not as powerful but they still got great sound great look
fantastic handling and a much better value equally so if you want a bevel-drived Ducati and you
want a desmo to have that extra performance the SD or the Dharma are pretty much half the price
at the moment of a 900 SS Ducati so same engine same amazing performance and sound and everything
that you get from a from a classic Ducati v-twin but really good value for money moving slightly on
talking about 900 SS 900 SS models that that came after the bevel so the Dharma engine bikes and the
ones that came after that they are also really good value for money at the moment they still
got this that sort of slightly 80s styling square headlamp actually very similar to to this treble 8
which is behind me this particular bike is an SP5 so it's one of the hot ones admittedly they are
expensive but there are lesser versions of that that that are still plenty of power
fantastic handling and kind of give you all the feel and grace that those early Ducatis have so
very good bikes to have again as I said lesser valued ones are really really good
equally so the the bikes that sort of came after that in 98 2002 the styling of them isn't quite as
nice they had a sort of half moon shaped headlamp to them 916s as I had previously mentioned are
getting very expensive and so what I think is a great alternative is the 996.
now you have the same kind of styling very very similar bike in some ways slightly better because
engine cases are slightly different and the fuel injection system is a bit easier to handle
slight reworking of them made them a little bit less grabby so nice bikes to ride and I still
think good value in the current market maybe not so much the the hotter versions the S's and
the Rs but just the standard 996 Biposto of which they didn't make a ton of in that era
great value for money I mean what a cracking bike for what a great ride for for what you
what you get out of it moving on from that you get the 999 now that is a bike that is much
maligned by people because of its odd styling I know that generally speaking it wasn't designed
or the design I should say was was very different you know with one headlamp above the other
wasn't for everyone's taste it was a slightly odd looking motorcycle but the revisions to the motor
made it actually a better bike it was the beginning of the Testastretta
engine and so again a bit easier to ride if you like v-twins not quite so grabby
and because it's sort of slightly odd styling I think it's kind of coming back into
fashion a little bit now it's probably was looked at the time as being a bit ugly but I think now
people are starting to think of it and think that's not bad and as a consequence great value I
mean certainly compared to the earlier models very good value going back slightly a couple of smaller
engine bikes the the 750 SS that they produced in the late 80s early 90s quite a rare bike
not that many of them in the UK but if you can find one they're still very good value for money
people tend to think that you can't find parts for them which is not true you can get the bits
for them they're they're easy to find easy to maintain and then lastly going right the way
back to sort of earlier Ducatis I'm talking about Mike Hailwood replicas now everyone knows that
early Mike Hailwood replicas are making loads of money but if you look at the the bikes that
came slightly afterwards the the third and fourth series especially the Mille version
which was a thousand cc a much better motorcycle and significantly less to buy in the current
market than any of the earlier Mike Hailwood bikes so those are my kind of favourite Ducatis
going forward over the last few years hope you enjoy them