Originally Posted by Ducatista
The servicing costs of Ducatis has gone down a lot in recent years (up to 50%).
They used to do everything on the schedule for a service.
Now they are more pragmatic, so if you've only done 1000 miles in the year, then they will only do what needs doing instead of needing to tick every box. A well overdue change IMO.
Servicing intervals are not bad either.
I think the reliabiity has improved from the old days. My brother-in-law was dead set against me getting a Ducati and then I realised his perceptions were based on experiences that were 30 years old.
But expensive is indisputable and then there is the waiting for parts from Italy chenanigans that you have to go through.
I still say that you can do as much reasearch about the technicals as you like, but at the end of the day for me it's got to feel right.