Navyboy12807;132356 wrote: I am looking for a track bike as I don't want to put the duc on the track and god forbid if I wreck a 25k bike I would be made at myself!
jon
Jon, hate to say it, but I've been there, done that (crash a $25,000 motorcycle). Three times, actually.
Here's the last crash the Ducati and me went through. Pics courtesy Gron4.
So before you think about taking out a $25k bike, consider this.
A) Insurance will NOT cover track days in nearly every state now.
B) Be prepared to come home and part out the motorcycle.
Here's my story. Rode the 2008 1098S on the street for a year, got bored, signed up for track days.
The first two crashes were easy. In the first crash, I bent the frame tabs for the rearsets, bent the frame tab for the steering stop, ground up some bodywork.
Paid the dealer to straighten the frame out. $375. Clutch cover and pressure plate replaced. $325. Got the bodywork repaired and repainted by Turn One Racing. $600. Put on new (less slippery) vortex rearsets, $450.
In the second crash, an easy lowside in the rain, I bent the steering stop AGAIN, bent the frame rearset tabs AGAIN, bent a Brembo brake lever ($160), destroyed a brand new Vortex rearset on the right side (half of $450), tore up my brand new bodywork and paint job AGAIN (SONOFA..), cracked the undertail cowl ($180), bent the magnesium front fairing stay (straightened it out, sort of), destroyed a Speedymoto clutch cover ($270)....
This time I mostly just duc taped the thing back together.
Third time down (pics above).. holy shit. This one hurt.
Magnesium front fairing stay destroyed ($270), clip on destroyed (??$), clutch lever destroyed (master cylinder is questionable too, I can't fully disengage clutch now but that may be debris still in the clutch?), left bar broke ($20), right bar bent ($20), rear brake cylinder damaged ($80), tank scratched up & gouged (1700$$$!!!!!), left hand control box cracked in half (controls brights, turn signals, mode switch, etc - $300+), swingarm bent slightly ($2600, but I scavenged a used one for $350 that's powdercoated black), tail section destroyed, rear subframe bent, undertail cowl destroyed, right muffler damaged ($1500, so better off buying slipons), etc etc...
I still could have more damage that's hiding; bent forks, etc. Dunno until I get it pieced back together and ride it.
Anyway I see so many first timers crash on their very first day I've lost count. And I'm SURE that every single one of them said "I'll take it easy, I'll be fine." Granted, most people are, and do come home with an intact bike, but there's always one or two on any given weekend who wad their shit up. I'm sure in every case they did NOT want to do that....
The truth is you do NOT know in advance how you will respond to the higher speeds, compressed timeframes, and faster decisions on a racetrack.
Take my advice. Get a dedicated track bike and keep that nice shiney expensive Ducati on the street where it belongs.
Just my .02.