Another one bites the dust

 I see Cincinnati lost its lone Ducati dealership.  Cincinnati
Powersports now appears to be yet another in a long line of Internet
distributors of motorcycle accessories.  There must be money in it
because FS Suzuki and and Southside Honda in Dayton both went that
route too.  I would never even think about seeking out these little
obscure warehouses, but enough must.

Guess this means I'll have to ride to Indy if I want to see the new
Evo Monsters this weekend...during the Indy 500 weekend.  OTOH, maybe
I'll just wait til the local guy gets some in.

 
There's no dealer in NY's Capital District area any more.

Phibb's Powersports stopped selling Ducatis.

 
Supposedly, their sales are up 68% this year if I remember correctly.
Years ago we had a Victory dealer locally who along with several
others gave up as reportedly, they made unreasonable demands on their
dealers and the bikes didn't sell that well.  The new style bikes
showed up, sales picked up and lo and behold we have another local
Victory dealer.

But I guess Ducati is working off such a low base that an increase of
68% might only be tens of bikes. I feel better about them when I know
there is a choice of mechanics nearby.

 

It's not like the modern ones are particularly unreliable.

But they do need a different standard of care than many other marques,
and I would not rely on a local dealer to shim a Desmo head properly.


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 On May 28, 2:09 am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:

Over the years I've had some really good Duc mechanics. Service
managers used to brag on their guys as the best and top paid who had
to take initial and follow up education to work on Ducs. Still, when
you take a Ducati in for service, it is serviced.  It costs a small
fortune, but the bike is gone over with a fine tooth comb. Enough of
it is critical enough, like shimming valves and setting new belt
tensions, that I'd hate to be stuck with a mediocre guy doing the
work.  I'd also hate to buy the tools, parts, and spend the time to do
it myself unless I could schedule it such that it always fell in the
middle of winter.  Even then, I'm surely sub-mediocre when compared to
someone who has had specialized training and does it day in and day
out for a living.