callum hambling 😭🍻

What a fucking geezer 🤣🤣

callum hambling Ha ha ha!!!

Aren't we all my good sir

Sorry boss, I got diarrhoea.

Bebeto Fandi YES YES YES

PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN

He'll probably just bring his HP4 Race for the next BBB series.

Oh man, that would rock! I could do with that for sure.

Care they still be able to be ridden on the street?

"looks good but bloody hard work" killed me lol

Freaking hot fuzz 😂😂

It's the second in a series of Budget Bike Battles. We weren't going to replicate the first and we won't replicate this one

Sorry but that's absolute bollox. And in a UK context, as you well know, £6k aint budget.

44Teeth you guys should run around Mugello!!!

I can't believe YOU said the S word.

Bigtinycrawler the series isn’t about ‘what bike you should get if you want to ride to Italy’ so why should it need to be easy to obtain? If you want to ride to Italy yourself you wouldn’t buy one of these, get an old versys or bandit and ride there. But that would be shit tv. For the bike you’re getting and the premium brand, it is budget. Parameters being ‘Italian’ and ‘ sports bike ‘

dyi01 yeah me too

dyi01 don't worry, you'll get plenty of that with these bikes. One of them isn't even fully road legal yet.

It's almost like that's the entire point of these series.

To be truly Italian, the bikes need to change owners every six months.

Merkel did not approof this budget.

T Kaakko you're right, the design is pure beaut! And that exhaust... is like an icing on the bike!!

Oh yeah, from the side and the rear it's stunning.

I like the 998

I'm mocking it. But then, again, I am primitive: I like the 916, the MV F4, the Jaguar E-Type, the XJ, I like Cole Porter and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

@@NisseOhlsen not primitive, cultured.

I'm not sure he put on the throttle accelerator. Cos if you don't, they probably won't start. Stick it on full, start it, shut it most of the way off.

@gliddofglood You don't necessarily have to, only when it's a bit colder. Yes, sometimes the 999 needs 2 s to get started by the distinctive weak starter of every Ducati. But many times, the engine fires up immidiately after pressing the button.

@woha. It varies. My black 999 never needed the accelerator even when cold. Then it developed a starting problem (after about 10 years) and did. I’ve been lent one of a similar age and it won’t start without the accelerator.

It’s the “fuel pump”.. there trash! I went through 2 of them when i had a 749s.... damn i miss that bike!

I own a 2003 749S and it has a battery saving feature where if you don't start the engine within 10-15 seconds of turning the key, the bike cuts power to the starter coils. After another 15 seconds or so, the bike further cuts power to the front headlight and you have to turn the ignition off and on again to restart everything. I'm guessing that's what happened with Jason Statham here and he wasn't aware of it.

Ain't they just. You have to admire the fact he has so blatantly come out

They're not 'gay', they're 'flamboyant'. ; )

Liberace was flamboyant too

Real Men Wear PInk, apparently...

Nice to see that you're true to your brand...

in isolation, yes. Trouble is, it's in the company of the MV.

The MV looks like a GSXR

@@DuckYou69 yeah no, just one look from behind and you know where you at

It’s not lol the mv wins hands down

Rich folks budget!!!!!!

Can get a reasonable 2nd gen RSV Mille for £3.5k

Five large. I've never spent that on a car never mind a bike.

There's a Tornado Tre 900 for £3.9k on ebay right now

I know it's not a super sport or anything but my ER6f with under 16k miles cost only £2400, that's more like a budget bike. I nearly got tempted to go for an old late 90's ZX7r with low mileage for £1600 and a 99 ZX9r for £1400.

I got a 03’ RSV Mille fantastic motorcycle

Yeah.. I'm incapable of anything but wanting that Terblanche thing to be a bucket and a half of suck all the way to the finish line, because yuck. Haha. Can't wait to be wrong just like MCN was wrong to publish their first impression ("obviously those must be placeholder headlights") for about 1h before correcting their article; because YGBSM.

I think the rear of the bike, the profile, and maybe perhaps even the front is really sexy. They just really fucked up the headlights imo. nonetheless these are really cheap where I live and I'd love to get one, if not for the expensive maintenance costs.

I agree. I almost bought one back then and the plan was to find some way to use the 4 side vents as headlights, and cover up the stock ones. The multistrada was the worst. Just ridiculous looking beast. LOL Still makes me laugh everytime I see it.

Ever since I was a kid i wanted a 916 or one of its generation, i hated the new 999 until about 5 years ago at cadwell park bsb I saw one and it looked incredible, i was amazed at how i had thought such a beautiful bike was ugly. Now i own a 749s, and there were 748s in as good condition for the same money, i decided i wanted the better bike that was just as beautiful as the icon before it. If the 999 had been launched 10 years later no one would have questioned its asthetics once. Better to be the original than a homage and never being the icon like the 1098. Besides its not all about looks more importantly is race day.

Definitely one of the best looking ducatis.

write a book

wut

Have you seen them both in the flesh?

Couldn't agree more pal. And I have seen them both in the flesh.

100% agree.

@xkukubax - ok..your crazy. Respect to you sir.

The headlight on the MV is just awful IMO. I know it's a super minor thing, but that headlight is just so ugly. And the 999 Duc is probably my favorite looking, the 1098/1198 is close but the headlines hold those back a little as well.

Do you still have the F4 mate?

6.5k is not budget when you talk used bike market. And sportsbike doesn't have to equal the highest tech modern crotch rocket with 180+ hp and Ohlins. Sportsbike for most people is a 600 class or higher, and just because modern bikes are expensive doesn't mean the used market has risen. Lets compare apples to apples here

nobody talked here about the ''general'' used bike market. This is about the ITALIAN USED sportbikes that are considered to be budget compared to their NEW equivalents as paying ''only'' 6500 GBP for an MV Agusta is still better than selling your sould to the devil and buy a new one for 20K. yes we all know that we can find old japanese sportbikes for about 1000 GBP but they are not italian bikes :) they are japanese ;)

Béla Halmai don't compare to new top-of-the-line bikes, thats irrelevant. And no need to take Japanese bikes into consideration either. The point is, when you talk "budget" it doesn't make sense to take the top speced models and even blow your original budget of 5k. They could simply have gone with a base 999 that would be easily found for 5k, but uuuhh no they wanted the top spec special, so they went and blew their budget with 1.5k for something completely irrelevant to the average person. Heck, you could even do real budget and go for the 749 instead, which is basically the same bike just a bit less power (but a more revvy engine). Point is, these guys didn't know how to settle for something, which normal people on a budget actually have to do - hence why few people can actually relate to this video. Most of us dont have the luxury of just blowing our bike budget with +30% just because we cant settle for the perfectly fine base model Italian supersport. And instead of an MV F4, they could have gone for an RSV mille of same era which is much more budget friendly. What this video should have been titled as, is; "Top spec used Italian supersports - at whatever price they are available".

Gen2 RFact for £4k easy

And you would have got a brilliant deal, obviously Donald - but we're talking European class here, not just an outside contender such as Aprillia.

Kho Sto Gen 1 mille R. At least you don't have to worry about the bike eating the battery while you stop for lunch. Not that I'm biased or anything...

Or chewing up stators.. reg/recs.. sprag clutch.. yeah you might have a point. Do love me a Gen2 for that authentic italian temperament

Kho Sto the Gen 1's still have more than enough Italian electrical gremlins for my taste and they love a good sprag clutch too, given half a chance. I also think they look nicer.

says the guy wearing a hideously silly and ludicrous t-shirt.

You have to see one in person - and red/silver is gorgeous.

agree #team999

Dave S. Available from rst-moto.com 👍😉

I agree does nothing for me. Nice T shirt

You are clueless

sethvicious he's not wrong 5k gets a nice stripple,fz, monster new sv650, new cb500. Budget if you earn 50k a year and want more toys not really the 2k most have spare for a bike. Looking forward to the new adventure though.

sirico he is wrong and so are you. "Fairly new anything" are his exact words. Good luck finding a fairly new superbike for 6500. Or a fairly new supernaked. Not to mention the countless individual bikes across every category that you couldn't find for 6500.

sethvicious "fairly new" isn't why people watch this series I found 600 bikes for 6k ranging from Ducati monsters to aprillia shivers to a Moto guzzi v7 on auto trader for that money. This is budget Italian superbike battle and that's cool but he's not wrong for pointing out that budget bike battle to him and others means the challenge of harsh limits and dismantling what people think about high mileage old bikes that someone on 18-20k a year could buy. I'll just leave this here Italian what was it super naked... What under 3k.. What wrong? www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201807158474240?atmobcid=soc3 The lads wanted to bash out another BBB and not have it be a headache but don't just go after people when you're not completely correct yourself.

sirico your reading comprehension is next level bud. Glad you typed out an essay tho

Tiny Rider I somehow doubt it since its not a budget battle at all.

ellisd82 yup quite obvious they bought the bikes out of desire of owning them. Nothing wrong with that, i just wouldn't call it budget bikes,you can buy just about any bike in the market for that money

Yeah, still going to watch and will still be decent content as their banter is brilliant, just Don't call it budget when it is £1500 over original £5k lol.

Yeah, sorry we spent over £12k of our own money on free content :-)

44Teeth KZfaq 2018, proof that people aren’t even happy with free anymore haha

not unknown for people to invest in their YT content, some see it as part of a business model...... Admittedly a risky enterprise these days.

The issue is not with Italian bikes, it's more the fact that they opted to go with the top of the line models in their race trim. That is not exactly what the vast majority of their audience sees as "budget", especially when the actual budget of 5000 was blown immediately with +20%. People don't complain about the content, they just point out some obviously poor understanding of their target audience. A big part of content creation is being able to understand what and how to communicate something that people can understand and relate to. If no one in your audience can relate to your content, then it is misplaced regardless of how well intended it was. Again, not complaining, just constructive criticism. If you actually wanted to do budget Italian superbikes, you could have opted for the 749s or even biposto model instead of the 999. Its more or less the same bike and handles just as well, just a bit less power, but still more than enough for most people and it can haul ass on the track. You could go for an Aprilia RSV Mille instead of the F4, if you can't find a decent F4 for 5 grand, etc. Plenty of options, but setting a relatively high budget and immediately blowing that budget, is not what the audience expects to see or can relate to.

Daniel Kemnitz Do you speak for the vast majority of their audience? how do you know what people’s financial situations are. A new Ducati is £25k so to me, £6500 is budget. I believe Baron explains the philosophy within a few minutes. “We want to buy a bike that we will sell on for a profit after a while” then Statham says yeah “it’s an investment” Did you even watch it?

Yep, already shot a few other bits and there'll be a dyno vid too

44Teeth Love it! =)

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZdhdZR716jOcYk.html

+Shaft0 ....Oh my!

Budget Brain Battle - Idiotica. $50 budget, spent $65.

yeah cuz everyone knows that Yamaha is Italian, and the FZ1 is a SuperBike!

Lovely bike mate. Japanese metal is considerably less expensive than Italian though.

Supernaked.

For sure, not suggesting it's on the same level -I'm just saying that when considering a "budget bike" contest, spending 6500 pounds on an MV Augusta wouldn't spring to mind. How about, say -assuming you were married to the idea of going to Italy- 80s and 90s Ducati's, MVs, and the like? Not sure about you, but I'd rather watch these two fanny about on ancient bikes than 2005+ anyway. Way more exciting. This all being said, I'll support the series as I do all 44T content, including buying stickers and everything else, so please don't think I'm some sort of hater. Just explaining.

It's actually the Fazer! But yeah, it rides superbly. Really do love it, although the gearing is much longer than my old VFR 750 and takes a bit of getting used to.

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ibez07 budget italian bike. they mentioned it.

Because 6500 isnt expensive?

Jacques Aalders as they’ve sad, it’s difficult to find decent bargain on their target budget, and they’re doing their best have it low as possible. and also, their aim is to have an italian bike and with class, not an everyday commuter or something.

if you look at average prices, these are low end

Budget for what they are

randykawasaki what are you smoking ? New superbikes are edging towards and over 20k. They got great deals on these beauties. 6 grand isn't much at all for an euro superbike, let alone Italian!

In the UK right now you could pick a clean Aprilia RSVR for less, and I can think of other examples. No one without a massive sense of entitlement would regard >6k as budget.

RO55M4C Fair enough man.

ibez07 No worries there. Being Italian bikes, bits will fall off, and they will break down sooner or later. Hell, the Duc hardly starting had me floored!!

Erm... let's wait and see shall we... ;-) :-D

+N221BP Not only will bits fall off, they may also burst into flames at any second.

An F4 and a 999 ? I would take the beaten ZX7R or the SRAD if it were about making miles.

keep riding your japanese scooter