Ducati Sport Classic Open House Event!!

Ducati Sport Classic Demo Event

September 1st – 8th


The new Ducati Sport Classic models have proven to be an awesome success. They offer unique, classic style combined with modern performance. Each model has visual attributes that can stir deep motorcycle emotions, and the technical packages and components yield refined, pure Ducati handling and performance.

Ducati is making an initiative, The Ducati Sport Classic Demo Event, to get the word out about these truly awesome motorcycles. We will be hosting the event at Great Bay Ducati during the first week of September, just when the best riding of the year begins. You can expect long demo rides all week, giveaways, refreshments, and food courtesy of Great Bay and Ducati USA. The week should prove to be fun and exciting for all Ducati enthusiasts.

At Great Bay we also feel, why wait? We will offer you a demo ride on a Sport Classic model today, and if you love it as much as we think you will, you could be riding your own weeks before the event. We promise to give you a great deal, and a perfectly set up motorcycle, that we know you will love.

Just a bit about the Sport Classics.

We have had a GT in our demo fleet and it has become a beloved motorcycle. It is smooth, comfortable and a fine two up machine. Last year, after a romantic ride up the coast with his wife, our dealer principal came in to the shop the next day and ordered one. He felt that it was the perfect two up bike for anything less than full on distance touring. The seat is super comfortable, the handlebars provide a nice neutral body position and the foot controls place the riders feet directly below.

From this comfortable perch controlling the GT is effortless. The bike is equipped with the absolutely dreamy 1000 DS motor. If you have not had the pleasure of riding a Ducati equipped with one of these power plants, you are missing out on experiencing one of the best motorcycle engines ever created. Yes, that sounds like an over statement, but if you do a little homework, you will find that every motorcycle magazine that has tested any of the following motorcycles equipped with the 1000 DS engine has praised the motor with heaping superlatives. From the venerable, do it all Multistrada to the quintessential naked sport bike the Monster S2R 1000 and onto the entire range of Sport Classic models. Why? Because Ducati got it right.

This powerplant and its descendent, the 1100 (now in the Hypermotard and Multistrada), offer all the attributes of a perfect motorcycle engine. It is smooth and balanced, and offers massive torque across the rev range. It pulls like a tractor and hits hard if you want it to, but if driven mildly feels like the most controllable and tractable motor ever made. What an awesome motor!

In 2006 the Sport Classic range was one of our top sellers. Sure, we sold many GT’s, but we also sold a bunch of the Sport 1000’s. This bike is just about as cool as any motorcycle can look, and with the revised handlebars and dual seating for some of the Sport 1000 models this year, you can choose the bike that is perfect for your riding style. 2007 also saw the introduction of the Sport 1000 mono-posto LE, a limited edition run of 100 units in traditional black and gold straight out of the seventies. We have number 97 in stock and ready to go home with a lucky new owner.

Following on the heels of the fabulous Paul Smart was the introduction of the Sport 1000S model. It carries forward the fantastic fairing, now in red with a center white stripe and black pin striping. The bike is now a Biposto and dual shock equipped, so taking along a passenger is easy of you want it to be. We can’t tell you exactly why, but this complete package seems to be much, much greater than the sum of its parts. Simply, the models we have ridden and sold are among the sweetest Ducatis ever.

So, across the Sport Classic range you get great Brembo brakes with full floating rotors, six speed transmissions, classic spoked wheels, the awesome 1000 cc dual spark, fuel injected motor, and a look and feel that could only be Ducati.

Finally, if you tend to like your bike to be more individualized you can check out the Ducati performance offerings for each model. These special accessories will allow you to turn any Sport Classic model into the bike you want it to be. From luggage and touring accessories to Termigoni performance exhaust kits, Ducati offers it all. If you haven’t heard a Ducati performance pipe equipped Sport Classic model, stop by and check one out. Can you say intoxicating? Whoa.

We encourage you to come by Great Bay Ducati and ride a Sport Classic. It might just be the perfect motorcycle for you too.

Hope to see you soon.

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GREAT BAY MOTORCYCLES BEST PRICE POLICY At Great Bay Motorcycles/ Vespa North Hampton we strive to offer all of our customers the best possible motorcycle or motor scooter experience. We offer excellent products at fair prices and do everything within our power to provide our customers with the service that will guarantee a complete quality experience when buying from us. We are not a “cut corner” dealership that offers products intended to attract customers simply on price. We sell and service Ducati and Triumph motorcycles and Vespa and Piaggio motor scooters. These are without question some of the best designed and engineered products in the industry. From a value to price point perspective these products offer outstanding components, fit and finish, and stand apart as unique within the industry. We stock our workshop with the tools, analyzers and equipment to ensure that we can take great care of these fine machines. Our technicians have the training and experience required to do a great job. The discount shops will remove a machine from the crate, assemble it poorly (when required) put a splash of gas in the tank and hand it over to a customer with little regard for what is right and what is not. Precision machines do not deserve that kind of treatment, and will never receive any level of disrespect at Great Bay. We follow exactly the manufacturer’s recommendations for setup. In each case the machines we sell have made their way on a container ship across an ocean, and while we are very confident in the manufacturing quality of these machines, we also recognize that it is incumbent on us, as your dealer, to thoroughly set up and check out every machine that we sell. Simply, sometimes things get by the manufacturer on the assembly line, and sometimes things change during shipping. It is up to us to identify and address any issues during set up. This is called the PDI (pre delivery set up and inspection), and can be the single biggest factor a dealership can do to be certain that it is handing over to it’s new owner a machine that is safe and reliable. As part of this, we torque all required fasteners and hardware. We add required fluids, adjust tire pressure, charge batteries, test electrical systems, perform thorough safety inspections, flush tanks and add fuel. Machines are then started and evaluated for running performance. Finally, an experienced technician takes the machine for a road test. If everything checks out the machine is then given a bath and a detail job. The time required to do this varies, and every machine receives all the time required to be sure it lives up to our standards. This makes it especially painful for us when a local customer comes in for a break-in service on a new bike or scooter from one of our brands that they purchased somewhere else in an effort to save money. Often, once the bike is in our workshop, we are amazed at the lack of attention the bike received during PDI from the discount shop, and wonder how they could have delivered it to a customer in such a fashion. We then feel obligated to set the machine up to the manufacturer’s standards, and do so without making the customer feel bad about his decision to buy one of the brands that we love and honor. So, we have a simple request for you, our potential customer. If you are in our area, and you want to purchase a product that we sell, please let us know if you are considering buying it at a less convenient location based on a cheaper price. Communication is the key. With this knowledge we will do everything possible to create a deal that will make you happy. Often times discounts on parts and installation, help with extended warranty purchases or service plans can create a much better deal for you, because these are all things that we can offer that enhance the motorcycle purchase experience. In other cases, we don’t want you to drive an hour or more for a small savings. Please communicate with us, we want to work with you. We are a locally owned and operated business. Our employees and their families live locally and spend their earnings locally. Our business has and does participate with a variety of local charitable and non profit organizations each year in our area, because we recognize that we are members of a community. As members of this community, we also must have customers that recognize our value and want our business to survive and thrive. We spend our money locally, and want you to as well. Also, if we are not the most convenient shop for you, but you would like to do business with us please let us know. We have many customers that travel extended distances to purchase bikes from us, or come to us for our service. We appreciate each and every one of them. So if we are not the closest, but you think we can help you, talk to us. We will do everything in our power to help get you on the scooter or motorcycle of you dreams. We will consider and accept all legitimate offers on our products, and have no intention of being beaten solely on price. Give us a call or stop by. In summary, we will match or beat any legitimate (verifiable or documented) price on the products we sell. Period. Why shop anywhere else?