Richard, I have my 02 ST4S with its front wheel in the air as I check out head bearings as a possible for the brake judder thing.
I've checked the discs and pads and have just found your cure.

Whats the physics behind the banjo replacement?What was wrong with the original?

Thanks. Colin.

Thank you. I enjoyed your writing, and, of course, the subject matter. I have an '04 ST4s.

Hi, What a fantastic site - as an enthusiastic ST4 owner I can see how useful this site will be. I have a lotus car and belong to a couple of Lotus forums which have also proved very useful
Well Done
Mike

Soooooo glad you enjoyed yourself, here's hoping the Aga comes in second place.

K.

Stuart, I did indeed send this to Ducati - Ducati UK and Ducati SPa. Depressingly enough, not even the courtesy of an acknowledgement from either. Looks like I'm going to have to build one myself after all...

Richard.

Have you actually sent this to Ducati? I loved the motor in the 999 but not the riding position... it would be great in my ST4.

If they'd listen (and I wrote something similar to Ducati Aylesbury just a few weeks back). I'll have the second one. As long as they don't paint it grey with red wheels!

Even better, I hear there's a 1098 version of the Testastretta soon to appear... Now that in an ST4RS or whatever would be really something.

Stu

Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe

I agree with your comments about the VFR, as I ride a VFR750 and everyone comments about how much better it is than the VFR800. It's a shame, because the V4 engine is absolutely brilliant, with rocket-ship performance and the perfect power delivery for coping with the daily commute through central London at any time of year. A race can just finishes the package, but it's getting old and the VFR800 is the only V4 alternative (I can't afford a Desmodici!) so a non-VTECH 1000cc VFR with the same sportiness as the VFR750 had would be a definite winner in my book.

Even better would be to use the V5 experience from the RC211V to create a new breed of hyper-performance sports tourer, but smaller and with a better handling package than the Blackbird.

It's time they stopped asking middle-aged men to design sports tourers and got us youngsters on the case!

I know someone with a Triumph and he thinks it's brilliant, but he won't ride it during the Winter due to corrosion so my question is how well the Triumph would cope with an all-weather 80-90,000 miles, which you can expect a touring Honda to take in its stride.

Thank you for your valuable and highly entertaining review of the Multistrada, which I read as part of my research before buying a used 2003. The bike is so fun and easy to ride that I feel as if I must be cheating--no suffering for my art here.

I also must say that your writing is inspirational as well. After your comments regarding the "hamsters engaged in a farting contest in a tin bucket" and likening the Multistrada's exhaust note to "gruffer mammals"--hedgehogs, the bike found its "pet" name--Spiny Norman. If you were ever a fan of Monty Python, you might remember the criminal Pirahna Brothers, one of whom, Dinsdale, occasionally halucinated an 8' tall hedgehog named Spiny Norman that would call out to him in a most baleful voice. Given the "space deco" design elements of the Multistrada, naming it for a halucination seems somewhat poetic.

Yes, I do understand that naming bikes is a bit childish, but, well, they are there for fun. Now, if we could have a similar epiphany for my husband's ST4S...

Thanks!

Richard,

Your Blog finally convinced me to spend the money and stock prevaricating - the fear of turning into the typical born again biker receded as I read your diary into the early hours. Not an ST4 but a cared-for but old VFR750, perhaps the Ducati will follow.
Regards
KEL