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Despite being one of the most enlightened countries in the world, the Netherlands doesn’t have a thriving motorcycle scene. I’ve no idea why this is - they could be all too busy getting ripped, getting drunk or falling off pushbikes to really catch the bug. But for whatever reason, Roosendaal-based Ozz Customs breaks the silence yet again with their latest build, a Ducati ST4S touring bike cut down into a mean cafe fighter.
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The ST Madness group would like to invite all Ducati riders to the annual gathering in Marlinton West Virginia. Good company and great riding all weekend. We gather at a B&B which caters to motorcycles called The Old Inn (www.oldclarkinn.com) the weekend following Memorial Day. The dates this year are 31-May and 01-June. For more details please contact Jay @ Jay33463@yahoo.com and/or make your reservation at the inn directly.
http://marlinton2013.blogspot.com/2013/06/east-coast-madness-for-2013.html
West Virginia riding is 5 star. The group that organizes this is what used to be the Ducati ST Yahoo group. ST's are getting fewer and farther between and they are hoping to keep this weekend going by getting some new owners involved....
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These Ducati's are superb sport-touring machines that lean heavily toward the sport side of that classification.
Years sold: 1998-2007
MSRP new: $12,495 (1998 ST2) to $15,295 (2003 ST4) to $12,495 (2007 ST3)
Blue Book retail value: $2855 (1998 ST2) to $5950 (2003 ST4) to $7670 (2007 ST3)
Basic specs: A V-Twin sport-touring bike with a full fairing, detachable hard saddlebags (standard in some years but optional in others) and legendary Ducati twisty-road handling. The ST series began as a single-overhead-cam, two-valve-per-cylinder model (hence the “2” in ST2) in 1998 and was joined by the four-valve ST4 in 1999. The ST2 went out of production in 2003, but the ST4 remained until replaced by the three-valve-per-cylinder ST3, which first appeared in 2006 and finished its brief run in 2007.
Why It Won: It didn’t. Ever. Maybe it should have taken home a Ten Best trophy, but it always got nipped by some other bike in the category. Nevertheless, these are superb sport-touring machines that—no surprise, given their heritage—lean heavily toward the sport side of that classification. They’re quite capable long-distance mounts on the straight-and-not-so-narrow, but they don’t really come into their own until the road gets twisty, the more so the better....more
