Yes. I remember the day I brought my first SD. Stopped at a servo and a guy came over and said it was the best looking motorcycle
he'd ever seen I'm not sure it's the best I've ever seen but it is still pretty damn good for seven year old styling.

Yeah, a couple of times when I've been having a mid-ride coffee, I've seen guys taking photos

of mine when it's parked outside the cafe.

Most people around theses parts say... Nice Ducati, or That looks like some kind of batman bike.

My missus calls it transformer...

a couple of years ago a couple came up to me. he loved it and wanted one, she had bought him a GSXR750! any way i wound up talking to her more than the guy because he went to order food.
when i left she walked up to the window and started pointing to my SD, so i rolled up to them and did a huge smokey burnout. always leave em with a good impression i say!

I've only seen one other SD besides mine.
About a mile from my house there was a guy on an orange SD, his father was with him on a BMW GS.

They were stopped at a closed gas station hiding from the rain under an awning.

We drove by in the car and I realised what I'd seen and went back to talk to him.

Told him it was a nice Superduke, but the black ones were faster

When he asked how I knew I told him I had a black SD.

He'd never seen another on the road either. Most where I live putter around on Harleys on the weekends, rolling road blocks that bunch is.

I've got SD with the orange and black color scheme. Friends of mine call it the wasp. And I have to admit, it does look like a wasp more than anything else, especially with the topblock sliders.

My bro in law paid me the ultimate insult - he said my SD looked like a Buell!! I was tempted to punch him!!!

SDNerd has no awareness of any registrant with handle "omky756", and will disavow knowledge of his existence if queried.

we all come up short from tyme to time.
The bike is hard to beat in the looks department. It may stand the test of time. Only time will tell.
I have seen special get ugly over time. The Blackhawk comes to mind.
Most people that pull toy haulers in and out of Pismo do a double take when I pass them on the freeway.
I absolutely love passing a pickemup truck that has a KTM dirtbike tethered in the bed.
Its like we are brothers in arms.
There is a practice dirt track about a mile from my house that has many of the second tier and a few of top teir supercross riders practicing. I wheelie by while they are there as a salute to their bigballededness. Many a great photo shoot has made it into the dirtbike rags, shot in my backyard.
It is the property of the person that either marketed the Leatt Brace or invented it.
All KTM's have something intrigueing about them, and the fall over very gracefully

i was riding thru the fine dining district in Richmond and had a couple quiz me at the light a young Italian woman and her mate, she knew what it was and called out excitedly "a SUPERDOOK!", he asked the size and when i told him 990 he just whistled.
some time later i had a mom in a car complimenting me on the bike, said she loved it. she had a young man that i assumed was her son who just shrunk down to nothingness in the front seat like he was embarrassed! i wheelied away!!

in Texas i had a young chick in traffic roll down her window admiring my 748, i gestured to the back seat but she just shyly rolled up her window and drove off. that same night i was riding on 6th st in Austin. 6th street is where all the clubs are and it was before they closed it down for the night (i used to play there with my band and on friday nights they would close it to traffic and people would walk right down the road, great city. it was hard to load out though because you couldnt bring a vehicle in for the equip. had to carry it out!!). there was some function going on and there was this group of like 60 yr olds in tuxes. they were loving the duc and one of the dudes made the international wheelie sign. cracked me right up but there were so many people crossing the street just wasnt safe.

oh one more Texas story. i was on the duc again, another friday night 6th st. there were 2 dudes (i think!...) one on a 900SS the other an old Hawk GT650 beat to hell shagged tyres (tyres for those across the pond...). they asked me to join them for this Ducati breakfast the next morning. well i met them in the middle of nowhere at this outdoor eatery, there must have been 100 or so ducs. so we are eating and in walks Lyle Lovett in full leathers with his entourage. so we all eat then after maybe 30 of us went for the actual ride. it was fantastic.
it turned out that the fastest dude was the honda hawk dude/chick ( he was nice as hell and either a chick or a very effeminent dude, didnt even get a slight gay vibe though, never did figure it out) he/she was riding the hell out of the bike though and was way out in front so i went from mid pack to the front to chase him figuring if he could ride like that then surely the 748 could. i stayed right with him/her and learned a lot that day about lines, and not braking. the rest of the pack would be like a mile back and we had to wait for them at the lights. at one point there was this right turn, a crazy scarey, sharp decreasing rad and we were flying, it was sooo tight that i was totally caught off guard, man i just kept leaning and praying but made it thru to find the guy stopped up ahead off to the side of the road. well one by one the other guys made it through but all thinking we werent gonna stay upright. Lyle rode pretty hard, was impressed, he had a tricked out 916, we all stopped for lunch at this cool little place, and he was a really nice down to earth guy, absolutely passionate about bikes. a great day and ride to be sure!

me thinks you miss it!
In two thousand thirteen, Austin will have it all. Moto Gp and City Lights and South bi southwest.
time to do the Austin strut Strat.

oh i definitley will, if........ the track gets approved. isnt it being held up?

Is it a Kawasaki?