I would like to aquire one of these, somehow. Can anyone help me?

-- ben kifle (ben_kifle@yahoo.com), March 11, 2003

Answers

forgot to say: I've seen the cd-roms on ebay and I'm not interested in those; rather a "real" book.

-- ben kifle (bkifle123@aol.com), March 11, 2003.

Unless something has changed recently, I believe the only thing ever produced is a shop manual that covers the engine. It's a bit out of date and not all that helpful. The Ducati manul -even with the odd english translation - is a dream in comparison. Still, my dealer has been trying to get one for me. It's been about six months and nothing is available. Some US dealers are using photocopies of the manual supplied by the US distributor. Some have nothing to work with at all. Well, that's the story my dealer gave me, anyway.

-- dm (i8foie@msn.com), March 12, 2003.

Rather, ...the shop manual for the enging "is not all that helpful".....UNLESS you are working on the engine, of course. Doh! dm

-- dm (i8foie@msn.com), March 12, 2003.

Ben,

According to Matt@Cagivausa.com, the mannual only exist in Italiano (Authorized dealer gets a copy of this). An English version is in the work. 3-6 months is what I last heard.

Cheers!!!

-- D. Allen Nguyen (archille@hotmail.com), March 12, 2003.

Good thing I speak Italian! I gotta get ahold of Matt!

-- ben kifle (ben_kifle@yahoo.com), March 12, 2003.

Don't hold your breath. That was the same line of BS I got more than a year ago. Every dealer I've talked to say that they don't even have a manual. All the know they got in training.

IMHO, that's a piss poor way of doing business. Cagiva USA (aka FBF) isn't doing a whole lot of work considering they are the USA importer.

-- Brad Cowell (bcowell@sbcglobal.net), March 13, 2003.