2003 Ducati 999
Miles: 6,034
Clean Title
Asking Price: $6,750 Or Best Offer
Listing Ends: October 3rd, 2024
Introduced in 2003 as a follow up to Tamburini’s iconic 916, Pierre Terblanche’s Ducati 999 raised more than a few eyebrows. Basically, it raised all the eyebrows. The new styling lost some of the earlier bike’s raw sexuality and exchanged it for meaningful improvements: more humane ergonomics, a stiffer double-sided swingarm, increased performance from the Testastretta engine, and so on. But Ducati fans, for all of their talk about technology and performance, are a conservative bunch, and race results and outright performance didn’t trump the loss of that sexy single-sided swingarm… The new bike sold well enough, but was quickly replaced by the more conservatively-styled 1098 in 2007. The 999 has been the “affordable” Ducati superbike for a long time now, and will probably always be less valuable than the Tamburini-era bikes that preceded them and the 1098/1198 that followed. That’s great news if you just want to get on with riding though or, like me, happen to think that these are very handsome bikes, especially in yellow.
2003 Ducati 999 Testastretta track bike or track prepared street bike. The choice is yours. This was race prepared many years ago by Ducshop racing out of Atalnta GA. I does have a current clean SC title in my name. This bike is currently set up for the track, but I do have all the fairings and majority of the stock parts to put back to street use. This bike has a Yoyodyne dry clutch, Ducshop 27 degree triple tree, upgraded front brake master cylinder, quick throttle kit, adjustable foot pegs, Marchesini wheels, both front and rear Pitt Bull stands and more. Not sure how long the bike was sitting prior to me. I installed a new battery, fuel pump, fuel filter, fuel pump relay, air filters and injectors professional cleaned. I have ridden the bike short distances but have never had it on the track.
Obviously, this example of Ducati’s 999 is a bit rough around the edges: it’s a race bike/track bike that has seen at least some action, and the race plastics obviously don’t fit as well as the original parts would. But for a competition-prepped machine, it looks very nicely put together, and all or most of the road equipment appears to be included. Think the $6,750 asking price is too high? I bet you can pretty easily sell that stuff online and turn this Ducati into a very affordable proposition…
-tad
Curious if this has ethanol in it or not. Sounds like some $ repairs to the fuel system were done to make it run again.
But that all repeats itself if you go back to letting it sit. That gets a bit less severe if it is stored with non-ethanol gas. Otherwise i think this is a great trackbike platform for chasing smiles.
thats got to be a deal. considering what gets asked for old Z1s et al here you have a proper modern sports bike for the price of a small car. No doubt the purists want it red-well paint it!