Seems like a fair asking price, with some wiggle room. These bikes are a little more care-intensive than your Wee, but then again, so is everything else OTOH, they're stone-simple, incredibly easy to work on, and easily capable of 100,000+ miles.

I roll 8-10k per year, and don't really consider that "high mileage", even though my riding season is normally 8 months.

Always ridden like I stole it - zero problems at 52k.

Went from a M900 to the Multi.

Put over 20k on the Monster, including several longish trips (1500 miles +/-). Other than cramped legs, never had a problem, and to this day its stock seat remains the best seat for my arse... ever.

Wasn't even looking at a Multi when a Duc shop owner/friend pretty ...

There is a motorcycle-specific kidney belt made, but I can't remember what the trade is. The rider wears it, and it has big handles on it for the passenger............ google it?

The missus & I do at least a week-long trip every year on mine... and push it pretty hard in the mountains dropping sportbikers (helps that I used to race :mrgreen: ). As long as you can resist the urge to pack everything you own (like some ADVer's I know), the bike still handles great at triple ...

I spent some seat time on a 1150GS, and while the telelever is butter smooth, it doesn't have the road feel of even my non-S Multistrada with Showa forks.

The Ohlins bits are sweet, but unless you're racing, I feel they're rather pointless on a street Multi, since the Showa suspension is pretty ...

The Multi will run circles around either GS on oil (oldtimer slang for asphalt). Put a 14T countershaft sprocket on it for traffic duty. While the panniers leave nothing "uncomfortable" behind when detatched, there's still the bracketry.

Mods? Pipes... IMO, Leo Vince is the best quality for the ...

My old VFR (a 93, pearl white, bought new) was very competent, polished, smooth, etc... very Honda-ish. But maintenance was a royal PITA, the riding position was not all that much different than the sportbikes of the era, and it was sorta... I dunno, bland?

For one reason or another, I found myself ...

I'd second the backrest suggestion, and 'Habanero' on the board here makes a nice one. But other than that, the bike works great as is, two-up for a 120lb passenger. Might consider some earplugs or noise-cancellation earphones, and the wind noise (versus the LT) might get bothersome.

For mainly street twisties, ridden by a shorter fellow, who already owns a Sprint?

S2R1000 (Though the Multi could replace both bikes :? )

Ohlins for the street is overrated; take the premium you'd spend on the bits & do some track days. As are the S4-series Monsters... thier power advantage only ...

Just returned from a 2000 mile trip, and the only complaint my wife had about the seat (stock 05), was that a backrest would be nice. There is a list member (Habanero?) that makes a tidy one for the Multi. She's about 5'-4", maybe 125lbs dripping wet, to give a point of reference. And we stopped ...

See if you can ride a used 04-06 model.

The changes to 07 didn't change the character of the bike (I personally like the signature Ducati dry clutch chatter) enough to make it much more desirable or valuable. As stated, the DS motors are proving quite stout, and have the rev range the Uly sorely ...

I don't think either of them are a bad choice. The Multi is significantly lighter than the Tiger, and has proven it can take a pounding quite well (somewhere in the photo gallery is a pic of one not less than three feet in the air.)

My daily commute includes a tasty jump... er, railroad crossing ...