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Finally get to pick up my S2R1K after almost a year. Unable to ship it to my home Ecuador because the dealer and Ducati could not furnish me the paperwork required to ship it overseas(I'd been told this would not be a problem as they had done lots of international sales before. I make the regrettable decision at this point to proceed with the purchase and keep the bike here in the US. I drive down to a highly acclaimed dealer south of town and pick up the shiny red 1000. (I had seleceted this dealer based off of his reputation and did not even attempt to dicker whith him on price as the owner himself told me when I purchased the bike that He would sell me a Arrow full system for $1250 a hi flow air filter and airbox lid for $100 and they would could and would adjust my factory ECU with their preknown adjustment to match this setup. This is all forgotten now and of course they cannot adjust the ECU as stated when we were in sales mode) After some paperwork where the sales lady give me the manuals keys, etc and then refuses to give me a shirt or two that had been promised to me at purchase time (same category as the tuning & Pipe??) she turns me over to a mechanic who is going to tell me everything about the bike. He tells me that it is "Red & Fast" and shows me how to adjust the clock? I guess if it had a radio he would have shown me how to change channels!! (maybe hes and ex Goldwing guy). When I ask If he was going to do something like set the suspension ride height, control levers etc he says no and gives some smart remark. I try and adjust the levers myself after the short ride to a nearby gas station only to disconver that the toolkit on my 23rd motorcycle will not allow this as it resembles something off of a $600 chineese bike. Not near as good of a toolkit as what came on my first motorcycle a 73 kawasaki 100. Oh well, I look at the bike and think that it sure is pretty, get back on it and ride it to my sons home about 75 miles away without incident. Upon ariving there I discover that the Mechanic that could not give me any straight anwers or do anything usefull like adjusting levers or the most basic of susppension setup, or how Ducati eliminated the ty-raps on the 2007 models(he hadn't even noticed this??), had failed to attach the temporary tag so that it would not fall off. I'm now over a 100 miles from home and have no tags. I get up the next day fabricate a imitation tag and head home hoping for the best............ I arrive back in @$%#&, go to mom's to show her my "New Ducati" and drop off my back pack before heading over to a friends house. After ohhing and aahing over it for about 10 minutes I get ready to leave swing a leg over it kick up the sidestand and thumb the starter button.......... Nothing........... Hmmm......... I start checking all switchs etc kill is off sidestand is up or is it down? I try both ways, nothing nothing nothing.........
I've checked the
Sidestand switch (the bolt was about halve way out and nearly ready to fall off) tightened it up but made no difference. Have not checked continuity yet
Kill switch. With it off it makes a small click, with it on it makes no sound whatsoever when hitting start button.
Attached a charged motorcycle battery to it and tried to jump it off, no difference
Looked for loose connectors
Ideas??
I have deleted reference as to who the dealer is until I see if they make a miraculous turnaround this week in dealing with this. Indications are that they will not as after there claims of being able to adjust the ECU turned to misclaims/lies they have made no attempt to redeem theirselves by offering me any goodies at a special price (i.e. breakeven)
Other than this the bike is beautifull, handles nicely, and seems to have the type of power I was hoping for. Unfortunatly my enthusiasm has been severly dampened by the early failure of the motorcycle, bolts coming off and this highly touted dealer seeming to be much less than what I had expected.
I've checked the
Sidestand switch (the bolt was about halve way out and nearly ready to fall off) tightened it up but made no difference. Have not checked continuity yet
Kill switch. With it off it makes a small click, with it on it makes no sound whatsoever when hitting start button.
Attached a charged motorcycle battery to it and tried to jump it off, no difference
Looked for loose connectors
Ideas??
I have deleted reference as to who the dealer is until I see if they make a miraculous turnaround this week in dealing with this. Indications are that they will not as after there claims of being able to adjust the ECU turned to misclaims/lies they have made no attempt to redeem theirselves by offering me any goodies at a special price (i.e. breakeven)
Other than this the bike is beautifull, handles nicely, and seems to have the type of power I was hoping for. Unfortunatly my enthusiasm has been severly dampened by the early failure of the motorcycle, bolts coming off and this highly touted dealer seeming to be much less than what I had expected.
Best wishes to ya! </threadjack>
